Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

After Barbara Minto joined McKinsey as the firm's first ever female consultant, she found that many management consultants had trouble communicating information effectively. She developed the Minto Pyramid Principle to help colleagues structure their writing, and after gaining support within McKinsey, took the framework to other firms.

Minto 14

Minto How To McKinsey Software 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2011

Develop an environment where customers will not want to talk badly about a brand. Develop efficient internal processes, integrate data, and empower employees so customers are satisfied every time they interact with you. But how does one go about turning customers into advocates? Silence detractors.

Brand 15

Brand McKinsey Loyalty Competitive Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2010

No wonder that a 2008 McKinsey survey found that only 20% of senior executives believe that their corporate philanthropy is effective in achieving social goals. As Nike's Senior Portfolio Manager Adam Day says, "The global development sector had overlooked the enormous potential of investing in adolescent girls to reduce global poverty.

Core Competence 15

Core Competence Market Segmentation Globalization Reputation 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

For all of the books (thousands) written on leadership, individuals (millions) who have participated in leadership seminars and dollars (billions) invested in leadership development, too many leadership experts still fail to distinguish between the practice of leadership and the exercise of bureaucratic power.

How To 8

How To Bureaucracy McKinsey Seminar 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Growing up on a Missouri farm, Walt Disney developed a love for drawing after his neighbor, a retired doctor known as “Doc” Sherwood, paid him to draw pictures of his horse. We told participants that we would pay them for whatever problems they reported they had solved. Examples abound.

Influence 8

Influence Bottom-up McKinsey Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

Workflows and innovation initiatives have been artfully reorganized around "projects" to facilitate faster, cheaper and easier contingent participation. A recent McKinsey & Co. The rise of part time jobs means the absence of full-time commitment. Growing number of employers are increasingly committed to not being committed.

Human Capital 8

Human Capital Real Estate Human Resources Disruptive Innovation 8

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Creating effective pay structures is a serious responsibility however many businesses still hold back from fully committing to the endeavor. Equitable workplace strategies for fair compensation not only reflect a healthy work culture , they also allow employees to commit better to their roles. percent of the U.S.

System 52

System How To Benchmarking Diversity 52

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2011

From his first days at the helm of the billion-dollar open source software company, which lives, breathes, and bleeds the values of open source development (not least: the best ideas win, no matter where they come from), Whitehurst realized "if I'm not called an idiot at least once a day, then something's wrong.". The effect?

COO 12

COO Learning-by-Doing Bureaucracy Strategy 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

By 2026, the McKinsey Global Institute estimates that demand for translators in the United States alone may reach two to four million. They need the enthusiasm, commitment, and business savvy to navigate the many technical, political, and organizational roadblocks that can emerge. What does a translator do? An entrepreneurial spirit.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain McKinsey Engineering Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Challenge (the first of three legs of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation) here last week. We announced the winners of the Management 2.0 And no single leader, no matter how brilliant and gifted, can invent the future of his (or her) company alone. Paul Green, Jr.,

Management 8

Management How To Innovation Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2011

One of the driving principles of the Harvard Business Review/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation is that everyone wins when everyone shares. You have to commit to a big problem to make a big impact. Some ways in to the truly juicy challenges: Look for the intractable tradeoffs. Define the dogma. The Management 2.0

Management 12

Management Short-term How To Strategic Planning 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. What makes it useful, though, is the understanding that has developed over time as these criteria have been used to determine which ideas are truly innovative and which aren’t.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8