N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Data compiled by McKinsey shows that nearly half of all leadership transitions fail, and just two years after executive transitions, up to 46% of them “are regarded as failures or disappointments.” If executives are the best of the best, shouldn’t they be able to succeed on their own accord?

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Execution Succession How To Process 317

Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 11, 2020

Guest post by Chuck Swoboda : As increasing competition, new technologies and evolving customer expectations continue to disrupt nearly every industry, business leaders are turning to innovation as a way to keep their companies relevant. The standard solution is to create teams that focus explicitly on innovation. The problem? Why is that?

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Innovation Team How To Uncertainty 227

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 18, 2023

Despite their different approaches, every CEO at every stage of their tenure meaningfully tended to all six responsibilities. The best CEOs kept all six plates spinning at all times, even if the external and internal environment meant that some needed to be spun faster or slower than others,” explain the authors.

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CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 65

Eric Jacobson

MAY 27, 2022

No One Succeeds Alone is the inspiring story of Compass Founder & CEO Robert Reffkin , whose mother, mentors, and search for belonging taught him valuable lessons that anyone with a dream can put into action today to improve their own quality of life. Find someone to give you the critical feedback others won’t. Collaborate without ego.

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Real Estate Open-book McKinsey Learning-by-Doing 65

Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Despite their different approaches, every CEO at every stage of their tenure meaningfully tended to all six responsibilities. The best CEOs kept all six plates spinning at all times, even if the external and internal environment meant that some needed to be spun faster or slower than others,” explain the authors.

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CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 65

Eric Jacobson

MARCH 20, 2021

Today, they’re a leader in their new field, but the CEO says they would never have gotten there if they had followed their first instincts. The CEO got out front and immediately apologized for the offense. Another CEO we know makes failure part of the review process, asking executives to describe recent failures.

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McKinsey B2C Telecommunications Learning-by-Doing 65

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 30, 2021

Today, they’re a leader in their new field, but the CEO says they would never have gotten there if they had followed their first instincts. The CEO got out front and immediately apologized for the offense. Another CEO we know makes failure part of the review process, asking executives to describe recent failures.

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McKinsey B2C Telecommunications Globalization 65

Leading Blog

MARCH 31, 2016

Here are a selection of tweets from March 2016 that you might have missed: Max DePree: North America’s First CEO Design Thinker by Michael Graber @southerngrowth. How technology is creating a new world of work via @McKinsey. Do you serve your team or are you a self-serving team member? by @JesseLynStoner.

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Servant Leader McKinsey Strategic Planning Open-book 150

Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 14, 2021

No One Succeeds Alone is the inspiring story of Compass Founder & CEO Robert Reffkin , whose mother, mentors, and search for belonging taught him valuable lessons that anyone with a dream can put into action today to improve their own quality of life. Find someone to give you the critical feedback others won’t. Collaborate without ego.

Real Estate 65

Real Estate Open-book McKinsey Learning-by-Doing 65

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

No One Succeeds Alone is the inspiring story of Compass Founder & CEO Robert Reffkin , whose mother, mentors, and search for belonging taught him valuable lessons that anyone with a dream can put into action today to improve their own quality of life. Find someone to give you the critical feedback others won’t. Collaborate without ego.

Real Estate 65

Real Estate Open-book McKinsey Learning-by-Doing 65

Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 7, 2021

No One Succeeds Alone is the inspiring story of Compass Founder & CEO Robert Reffkin , whose mother, mentors, and search for belonging taught him valuable lessons that anyone with a dream can put into action today to improve their own quality of life. Find someone to give you the critical feedback others won’t. Collaborate without ego.

Real Estate 65

Real Estate Open-book McKinsey Books 65

HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2024

“Your children are going to live to 100 and not have cancer because of technology,” Jamie Dimon said in an interview with Bloomberg. The JPMorgan Chase & Co Chairman and CEO explained his perspective on the vast applications of AI, emphasizing his openness to the possibility that AI might even replace the need a for human labor force. “

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Hedge McKinsey Technology Learning-by-Doing 52

Eric Jacobson

MAY 3, 2021

No One Succeeds Alone is the inspiring story of Compass Founder & CEO Robert Reffkin , whose mother, mentors, and search for belonging taught him valuable lessons that anyone with a dream can put into action today to improve their own quality of life. Find someone to give you the critical feedback others won’t. Collaborate without ego.

Real Estate 65

Real Estate McKinsey Open-book Mentor 65

First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 21, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Flat Army: Creating a Connected and Engaged Organization Dan Pontefract The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation Jon Gertner To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism Evgeny Morozov [.].

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Govindarajan Blog McKinsey Bond 75

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Anyone can be collaborative leader—whether you are the CEO, a mid-level manager or a front-line supervisor. The need for collaboration is driven by the issues arising from the current economic crisis and supported by the opportunities afforded by advances in technology, specifically Web 2.0. It doesn’t matter what your role is.

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Competitive Advantage McKinsey Creativity Diversity 282

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Instead, the common belief today is that the best applications of AI and automation will be very much a joint affair, with humans doing what humans continue to do best, and technology doing what technology does best. Task management. Rather than a face-to-face consultation, for instance, they are done instead over telehealth platforms.

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Govindarajan Technology Hammer Process 73

CEO Blog

MAY 30, 2012

The book is written by three McKinsey and Company partners so the analysis is clean and full of good data but dry. The foreword was written by Marc Benioff, the CEO and Founder of Salesforce.com - his personal story is very compelling. Soup up your sales engine (support sales with good technology and corporate resources) 4.

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McKinsey Marketing Travel Strategy 133

Lead Change Blog

APRIL 7, 2020

Eileen explains: “Human language separates us from the rest of the animal kingdom, but too often, we respond to the wag of a dog’s tail instead of the message given by the CEO. Jon explains: “McKinsey & Company’s research suggests that 70 percent of change efforts fall short of their objectives or fail altogether.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Crisis 238

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Frances Hesselbein – Former CEO, Girl Scouts of America and Peter Drucker Foundation. Alan Mulally – Former CEO, Ford and Boeing Commercial Aircraft. CEO Magazine – CEO of the Year. Authority on new technology and communication. Tammy Erickson – McKinsey award-winning author. Non-profit CEOs.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 30, 2019

The transformation of Silicon Valley from farmland into the center of the technological universe has been attracting envious looks from around the world for a generation or more. Consulting giant McKinsey recently argued that the talk about Asian economic hegemony has been largely underestimated. Digital dominance.

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Marketing McKinsey Innovation GDP 40

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

In response, the new CEO introduced a new strategy: ‘Plan to Win’ It fit onto only one page. Strategy involves change because it has to adapt to competitors, technology and customers. If strategy is painful then you’re doing it all wrong. The strategy delivered 8 years of growth.

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Strategy McKinsey Strategic Planning Fashion 163

First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 6, 2011

Mendonca and featured by McKinzey & Company’s McKinsey Quarterly (November 2007). Here is an excerpt from an interview of Richard Rumelt co-conducted by Dan P. Lovallo and Lenny T.

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McKinsey Strategic Planning Planning Strategy 80

First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 5, 2011

Here are brief excerpts from two articles featured by McKinsey & Company. I suggest you read them in the order in which they appear here, then click where indicated to read each in its entirety. I presume to suggest, further, that you register to receive email updates on other resources that are also available at [.].

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Crisis McKinsey Resources Article 80

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

Led by Gary Hamel and supported by McKinsey & Company (along with a handful of like-minded organizations), the MIX is a web-based open innovation project aimed at reinventing management for the 21st century. You don't have to be a guru or a CEO — or even a "manager" by title — to be a management innovator.

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McKinsey Innovation Hamel Management 11

The Idolbuster

AUGUST 8, 2012

McKinsey 7S Model. I find the McKinsey 7S framework particularly relevant model for organizational behavior. The values of the organization, (propagated by the founder/CEO) did not reward operational issues, or believe in customer feedback. Chapter 3: The Corporation, The Real American Idol Part 7 – UPDATED 8/10.

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Organization McKinsey Organizational Behavior System 36

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Along with two other co-founders, Oliver Kharraz left the posh world of strategy consulting (McKinsey) and set out to solve a problem that had been nagging him—and millions of other patients for decades—the dread and hassle of booking a new doctor appointment. What comes first, the chicken or the egg? It seemed obvious to Oliver.

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McKinsey Entrepreneur Technology Learning-by-Doing 221

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2018

It seems beyond debate: Technology is going to replace jobs, or, more precisely, the people holding those jobs. Recently, the CEO of Deutsche Bank predicted that half of its 97,000 employees could be replaced by robots. Here are four ways to think about the people left behind after the trucks bring in all the new technology.

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Creativity Strategy Venture Capitalist McKinsey 15

Eric Jacobson

MAY 25, 2016

Today, technology is making all business activity more transparent. John Browne : When it comes to relationships with external stakeholders, research conducted by McKinsey shows that on average, 30 percent of a company’s value is at stake. Robin Nuttall Question: What are the consequences if business leaders don’t?

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Company Competitive Advantage Open-book Long-term 50

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2014

Venture capitalist Chris Dixons declaration , after plunking $50 million down on Buzzfeed, that he was investing in a technology company has been causing a bit of head-scratching and gentle mockery in media circles. When Buzzfeed editors do it, its technology. Which you could, with some justification, call a technology.

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Technology Company Venture Capitalist Media 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

Companies across the world are ramping up their digital initiatives, according to a new survey from McKinsey , with the C-suite increasingly leading the way. Digitization has become a critical asset in many companies’ quest for growth,” write the report’s authors, noting the increased involvement by CEOs and other top executives.

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McKinsey Survey Diversity Project 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. Not long ago, the chief executive of a global telecommunications firm shared with me his frustration that "even in a meeting with the CEO, most institutional investors seek only granular data points to plug into their models.

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Long-term CEO Short-term Asset Management 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

As the new CEO of Google, he has been handed the keys to one of the world’s most valuable brands , the top website to open to get to other websites , the most popular operating system for smartphones , and the most desirable employer for engineering or business graduates. And third, his belief that technology is an equalizing force.

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CEO Engineering Advertising Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2011

A McKinsey Global Institute study unveiled at e-G8 estimated that Internet economic output is bigger than Spain and growing faster than Brazil. Web-intensive SMEs grow twice as fast, export twice as much, and are more profitable than non-Web-enabled, the McKinsey study concluded. The human side is critical to the use of technology.

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McKinsey COO Technology CEO 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

Despite rapid innovations in data processing and machine learning, many businesses have yet to make the leap from the Industrial Age to the information age, and the gap between technological and organizational progress is widening. Closing this gap requires much more than short-term fixes, like adopting new technologies.

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Industry Short-term Planning Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Back in 2011, the McKinsey Global Institute published a report on the transformational potential of big data—and it would take a supercomputer to process all of the articles that have appeared since then urging companies to get on board before some digital disruptor renders them obsolete. Insight Center. The Next Analytics Age.

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Industry McKinsey Early Adopters Rate of Return 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2018

A recent survey by Deloitte of “aggressive adopters” of cognitive technologies found that 76% believe that they will “substantially transform” their companies within the next three years. There probably hasn’t been this much excitement about a new technology since the dotcom boom years in the late 1990s.

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Project How To Technology ROI 9

CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

A recent survey conducted by McKinsey found that 42% of millennial and Gen Z consumers cited purpose as the primary reason they switched brands. Had they set out simply to make a profit, Apple likely wouldn’t be the revolutionary technology leader it is today. We can still see that purpose reflected in everything Apple does today.

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Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78