Chart Your Course

AUGUST 22, 2014

Only 52 percent of companies spend their time in a way that aligns with their strategic goals, according to a McKinsey survey of 1,500 executives from businesses of all sizes around the world. Some executives lost time by wasting too many hours online. Others got distracted by meetings, motivating their staff, or handling chronic emergencies.

Tools 133

Tools Productivity Products Company 133

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The University of Oxford’s Viktor Mayer-Schonberger argues that a key development to fuel both innovation and global development would be greater access to data.

Succession 82

Succession Entrepreneur Globalization Innovation 82

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Consulting giant McKinsey recently argued that the talk about Asian economic hegemony has been largely underestimated. regulators) together to create the digital world that respects European values, ” Willem Jonker, CEO of EU accelerator EIT Digital said at their recent annual conference in Brussels. Digital dominance.

Marketing 40

Marketing McKinsey Innovation GDP 40

CO2

JANUARY 15, 2020

According to a 2019 Conference Board survey , the most common reasons CEOs hire an executive coach are leading teams and developing people; executive presence or influencing others; and emotional intelligence. It all goes back to what Alfred Adler shared perfectly decades ago, “All problems are interpersonal relationship problems.”

Executive Coaching 78

Executive Coaching Execution Welch Self-aware 78

CO2

JANUARY 15, 2020

According to a 2019 Conference Board survey , the most common reasons CEOs hire an executive coach are leading teams and developing people; executive presence or influencing others; and emotional intelligence. It all goes back to what Alfred Adler shared perfectly decades ago, “All problems are interpersonal relationship problems.”

Executive Coaching 78

Executive Coaching Execution Welch Self-aware 78

CO2

JANUARY 15, 2020

Why CEOs want executive coaching According to a 2019 Conference Board survey , the most common reasons CEOs hire an executive coach are leading teams and developing people; executive presence or influencing others; and emotional intelligence. It’s no wonder leaders get stuck in their mental models and can’t make progress.

Executive Coaching 78

Executive Coaching Execution Welch Self-aware 78

Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 2, 2013

At the C-suite, businesses need not only a data analytics strategy, but a data-analytics culture, researchers from McKinsey have concluded. As speaker Bernard Marr put it at CMI’s National Conference: “ what the hell is Big Data? Companies that just leave these matters for the IT department are most likely doomed.

Leadership Styles 83

Leadership Styles Human Capital Ethics McKinsey 83

Strategy Driven

JULY 23, 2015

They go to meetings and attend conference calls. Before founding his own company, he was an assistant professor at Duke University, a consultant at McKinsey & Co., If you ask an office-based worker what 'work' means to them, you’ll get a list of typical workday activities. They read and write emails. They write reports.

Team 50

Team Competitive Advantage McKinsey Energy 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Take the case of Dominic Barton, who served as the Global Managing Director of McKinsey & Company from 2009-2018. When I later became head of McKinsey Asia, he helped me see that I had to hire a solid COO to work with me—which substantially increased my leadership effectiveness in that bigger role.”

Skills 15

Skills McKinsey COO Handbook 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Recent McKinsey research showed that senior executives have a low level of satisfaction (an average of only 30%) in their corporate functions across the board. Overwhelmingly, they are service providers who are conferred an absolute monopoly right to serve. ” you are not alone. ” This issue has long been a bugbear for me.

Outsourcing 10

Outsourcing McKinsey Conference Cost 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Women’s conferences and employee resource groups (ERGs) are increasingly inviting men to attend. At one recent conference for women in technology, a Bingo card was circulated by women in the audience just before a panel composed of men on the topic of male allyship. HIROKAZU JIKE/Getty Images. What’s at stake?

Conference 15

Conference Self-aware Diversity Participative 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

My dynamic circle of advisers and confidantes has included, in addition to my wife María and my Charles River friend, several other academics in the United States, an undergraduate professor in Argentina, a McKinsey director in Spain, and colleagues working in Egon Zehnder offices across the Americas, Europe, and Asia.

Career 15

Career Drucker Guidelines Conference 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

His speech on November 10, 1990, was delivered to a meeting of McKinsey & Co., Not anything as narrow as ambition,” Gardner told the ambitious McKinsey strategists. the consulting firm whose advice has shaped the fortunes of the world’s richest and most powerful companies. But his focus that day was on neither money nor power.

Collins 15

Collins McKinsey Advice Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

Along with MIX, Harvard Business Review and McKinsey have now joined together to create The Harvard Business Review/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation. The future doesn't happen in the corner office or the conference room. The first phase of the competition, the Management 2.0 Explore the fringe.

Hamel 15

Hamel Company McKinsey Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

We were struck by the assumption made by an article in The McKinsey Quarterly this month. Thus, as the McKinsey Global Institute team states, and its analysis of 80 years of data shows, "over the long term. Yet, as obviously logical as that finding turns out to be, McKinsey was right to frame it as counterintuitive.

McKinsey 14

McKinsey Efficiency Long-term Analysis 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

According to research by McKinsey , up to half of new-leader transitions fail within two years. After investing in hours of interviews with you, your hiring manager will likely feel convinced that she hired the best person for the job, and may confer a status of invincibility on you in your initial weeks or months with the company.

Learning Curve 13

Learning Curve McKinsey Goal Planning 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2014

Both cite a McKinsey survey which, ironically, found that “Organizations’ efforts to go digital. The Impact of the Internet on Reading Behaviour,” a paper reporting the results of research at the 27 th Bled e-Conference). are picking up steam.” Wouldn’t you want to know more about this before approving your firm’s investments?

Media 10

Media ROI McKinsey Survey 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

In the meantime, however, the press conferences, the media coverage, the statements by work colleagues and Union officials are giving us a picture that fatigue may have played a central role. A meta study by McKinsey found that obstructive sleep apnea is responsible for a $65 bil to $165 billion hit annually to the American economy.

Policies 8

Policies Training Transportation McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

USC’s John Boudreau, CEO adviser Ram Charan, and consultants at Bain & Company , McKinsey, and Korn Ferry have made similar arguments. Some 20% to 30% of American and European Union workers are independent, according to the McKinsey Global Institute. Customer Experience Creators. from 2005 to 2015 came from freelance work.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2017

Sitting in an office cube or in a conference room attending endless, poorly-run meetings is unlikely to be how your company’s strategic or product issues are best solved. Factory workers, manual laborers, and workers in retail stores, restaurants, or hospitals have to be at their place of work at specific times to be productive.

Real Estate 11

Real Estate Constraint McKinsey Cost 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2017

Doing too much can result in sleep deprivation that is not only damaging to our health , but as a 2016 McKinsey study highlighted, also negatively affects the executive functions of our brain like problem solving, reasoning and organizing. They’ll also likely feel better about themselves and their work.

Team 12

Team Conference Restructuring McKinsey 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2015

alone, concern over the continued gender imbalance at the C-suite level and on boards has been a hot topic in top-tier media and at conferences. ” and celebrated the findings of a Lean In and McKinsey Women in the Workplace study at a dinner event in late September 2015. In the U.S.

Media 8

Media Globalization McKinsey CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

They sound good on gender issues, their websites trumpet their dedication, and they sponsor great women’s conferences, but the core jobs on their leadership teams remain male-dominated. Even McKinsey & Co., Companies have gotten much more skilled at what we call pinkwashing. The Plodding.

P&L 8

P&L CEO Competitive Advantage McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2014

” Technically defined as an “optimal state of consciousness where we feel our best and perform our best,” the term takes its name from the sensation it confers. In a 10-year study conducted by McKinsey, top executives reported being five times more productive in flow. Action and awareness merge. Think about that for a moment.

Environment 11

Environment Chemicals McKinsey Creativity 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook and best-selling author of Lean In , recently said at a conference, “If you look at any company in Silicon Valley that is failing, everyone in the company knows it’s failing, knows why and how it’s failing, but no one is saying anything.

Company 8

Company McKinsey Survey COO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2011

The author of the book The High Velocity Edge , he also wrote the McKinsey Award-winning HBR article "Fixing Health Care from the Inside, Today" and co-authored "Decoding the DNA of the Toyota Production System.". According to findings published recently in The New England Journal of Medicine , things have not improved.

Health Care 14

Health Care Kaizen McKinsey Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

“Because you’re from McKinsey and I want to work there,” he replied. Our panel event and conference reached a wide audience of professionals in business, with over 300 in attendance from businesses such as Eileen Fisher, General Mills, and JP Morgan. ” One student’s hand went up immediately.

Emotional Intelligence 8

Emotional Intelligence Self-aware Audience McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

However, a growing amount of data from Gallup , Bain & Company , the Wall Street Journal , McKinsey , and others is indicating that supervisors play a key role in workforce engagement. Last month, I attended ATD’s global conference in Orlando, Fla., Managing engagement is personal.

Management 8

Management Globalization Drucker Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

However, some of the most common beliefs about how this will happen, repeated by conference speakers, self-proclaimed gurus, and consultants, have been oversimplified, misunderstood, or misapplied. As a firm, McKinsey finds consulting projects and then matches them with people they have recruited and trained.

McCallum 12

McCallum Competitive Advantage Business Model Consultative 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Many MBA graduates flock to McKinsey, BCG and other consultancies so that they can rapidly acquire valuable skills. A high-status organization confers respect, recognition, and a sense of worth on employees, and that provides meaning at work for some. Then they experience meaning at work. Self-realization.

Self-aware 11

Self-aware McKinsey Learning-by-Doing Airlines 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

He'd been a star at McKinsey, with perfect Indian and U.S. Companies had deserted McKinsey, Bain, and BCG for Vijay. They stopped to talk with a few people in the office, and then she led him to a conference room at the back of the floor. "I credentials and a sharp business sense. The partners were thrilled. He's the Master".

Case Study 8

Case Study Consultative McKinsey Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2012

We still live in a world where being part of a powerful, exclusive group gives you power, whether that group is educational (the Ivy League, Skull and Bones, Harvard Law), professional (McKinsey, Google, Exxon Mobil), or demographic (white, male , straight). Who would argue that such affiliations no longer confer some degree of power?

Power 16

Power Venture Capitalist Business Model McKinsey 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

But this is only possible if the senior executives of our leading institutions are what Dominic Barton, Worldwide Managing Director of McKinsey & Company, refers to as "tri-sector athletes" — leaders able to engage and collaborate across all three sectors. We've noticed there are no shortage of major conferences (e.g.,

Globalization 9

Globalization Career McKinsey Strategic Planning 9

First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 23, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article about John Hagel III featured by the Knowledge@Wharton website, sponsored by Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Download 75

Download Resources Article Human Resources 75

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

The Apple TV will whisk us to work, to school, to conferences, to the city, to Second Life, to our memory palace and virtual library, to shared worlds like Eve and Halo. The new Apple TV will have the form factor of TV but its real and revolutionary purpose will be telecommuting so good it''s going to feel like teleportation.

Disintermediation 8

Disintermediation Hotels Airlines Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

For example, Scott Blackburn, an Army veteran and former McKinsey & Company partner was paired with Chief of Staff Robert Snyder, who joined VA in 2009 after a 26-year career in the Army, to lead the transformation and reorganization initiative. ” Build a capacity for learning and continuous improvement.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Crisis Kotter 8

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. Executives read the same trade magazines, go to the same conferences, and talk to the same consultants. And it’s not just your company. Within any industry, mental models tend to converge over time.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8