Lead Change Blog

APRIL 7, 2020

Welcome to the April 2020 Leadership Development Carnival! We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. Paula Kiger of Big Green Pen shared Overcome social distance with empathy in leadership.

Leadership Development 238

Leadership Development Development Leadership Crisis 238

Leading Blog

JANUARY 9, 2019

Authors Acha Leke, Mutsa Chironga and Georges Desvaux of McKinsey and Company, take a different view in Africa’s Business Revolution. And technology? The authors believe that companies and investors in every part of the world should take a look at Africa and its place in their long-term growth strategy because Africa is a 1.2-billion-person

How To 254

How To Long-term Short-term Business Model 254

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020. Remember, it’s the people and culture who enable technology and marketing success – not the other way around. ?. Selection Methodology.

Human Resources 473

Human Resources Globalization Diversity Resources 473

Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 6, 2015

Per the 2014 McKinsey research study of 1323 companies involved in organization redesign, less than a quarter of those transformation efforts succeeded. Another key characteristic for a successful organizational transformation is an active, end-to-end, and comprehensive leadership.

Leadership 120

Leadership Stage-Gate Critical Success Factor Objective 120

HR Digest

JULY 28, 2021

History, if it has taught us anything at all, has taught us that technology has created large employment and sector shifts, but also widened job opportunities. According to McKinsey, AI and automation will displace between 400 million and 800 million individuals by 2030. Coronavirus has changed the way Americans work. A STITCH IN TIME.

McKinsey 134

McKinsey Aggregate Demand Industry Crisis 134

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

If you don’t solve the skills riddle with agility, curiosity, and smart technology capabilities, your organization could fade from existence.” When I was a technology marketing exec in 2009, I heard the words nurture marketing. Turned out to be a great strategy for job relevance. Digital marketing and strategy specialists.

Skills 145

Skills Emotional Intelligence CFO Power 145

HR Digest

JUNE 16, 2023

HR has thrived during this difficult time and helped in transforming organizations where the function is well led, has strong senior stakeholder support, has prioritized leadership development , and has already commenced a digital transformation journey. times more likely to report organizational outperformance, McKinsey research has shown.

McKinsey 98

McKinsey Agility Learning-by-Doing Organization 98

Eric Jacobson

MARCH 20, 2021

Unless that activity is advancing a carefully crafted strategy, the company is apt to sprint off in the wrong direction. All four authors are partners or senior partners at McKinsey & Company. Arora has held various operational and leadership positions with Apple, Sun Microsystems, 3M Groupon, and Staples.

McKinsey 65

McKinsey B2C Telecommunications Learning-by-Doing 65

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 30, 2021

Unless that activity is advancing a carefully crafted strategy, the company is apt to sprint off in the wrong direction. All four authors are partners or senior partners at McKinsey & Company. Arora has held various operational and leadership positions with Apple, Sun Microsystems, 3M Groupon, and Staples.

McKinsey 65

McKinsey B2C Telecommunications Globalization 65

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Be sure to check out the books’ Appendix 2 where you’ll find the bios of these 67 interviewed CEOs along with key facts about each – including their milestone leadership impacts on their respective organizations. Viewed through this lens, we hope any leader will find it helpful. Take the mindset of “be bold”, for example.

CEO 104

CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 104

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 15, 2022

Indeed, McKinsey recently argued that one of the few plus points from the pandemic was it reinforced the importance of building change capabilities within our organizations. Across retail, automotive, financial services, and technology a number of common factors emerged that underpinned the ability of companies to weather the Covid storm.

Company 105

Company Hofstede Supply Chain Agility 105

First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 16, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Stiletto Network: Inside the Women’s Power Circles That Are Changing the Face of Business Pamela Ryckman Leadership Sustainability: Seven Disciplines to Achieve the Changes Great Leaders Know They Must Make Dave Ulrich and Norm Smallwood […].

Ulrich 75

Ulrich Blog Micromanagement McKinsey 75

Eric Jacobson

MARCH 14, 2022

Be sure to check out the books’ Appendix 2 where you’ll find the bios of these 67 interviewed CEOs along with key facts about each – including their milestone leadership impacts on their respective organizations. Viewed through this lens, we hope any leader will find it helpful. Take the mindset of “be bold”, for example.

CEO 94

CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 94

Eric Jacobson

JUNE 23, 2022

Be sure to check out the book's Appendix 2 where you’ll find the bios of these 67 interviewed CEOs along with key facts about each – including their milestone leadership impacts on their respective organizations. Viewed through this lens, we hope any leader will find it helpful. Take the mindset of “be bold”, for example.

CEO 83

CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 83

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 18, 2023

Be sure to check out the book's Appendix 2 where you’ll find the bios of these 67 interviewed CEOs along with key facts about each – including their milestone leadership impacts on their respective organizations. Viewed through this lens, we hope any leader will find it helpful. Take the mindset of “be bold”, for example.

CEO 65

CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 65

Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Be sure to check out the books’ Appendix 2 where you’ll find the bios of these 67 interviewed CEOs along with key facts about each – including their milestone leadership impacts on their respective organizations. Viewed through this lens, we hope any leader will find it helpful. Take the mindset of “be bold”, for example.

CEO 65

CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 65

Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 14, 2013

McKinsey Insights ’ Pankaj Ghemawat references a survey of senior executives where 76% of them feel they need to develop global-leadership capabilities, but only 7% of feel they are doing so effectively. Test your management strategies. Find out if your decisions, plans, and strategies work first before deploying them.

Metrics 190

Metrics Management Katz How To 190

ExactHire - Leadership

JUNE 3, 2022

According to McKinsey , companies succeeding at diversity are 35 percent more likely to enjoy profit margins above the median for their industry. Your campus recruiting strategy isn’t complete without an onsite job fair. Quality of Executive Leadership. A diverse workforce is good for your business. Access a passive talent pool.

Company 98

Company Diversity Career Quality 98

Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 19, 2011

In leading today's knowledge workers, it is important to invert the pyramid and look at leadership vis-a-vis the wants and needs of the professional - as opposed to the skills of the leader. A role model for providing positive networking is strategy consulting firm McKinsey.

McKinsey 152

McKinsey Loyalty Competitive Advantage Learning-by-Doing 152

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. The most essential time management technology for increasing your productivity is calendar scheduling software. Calendar Management.

Tools 133

Tools Productivity Products Company 133

HR Digest

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Most CEOs rank HRs as the eighth most important function in their organization, according to a research by McKinsey. McKinsey found that companies that shifted more than 56% of their capital across businesses recorded 30% more returns while studying resource allocation pattern of more than 1,500 US companies over 15 years.

CEO 63

CEO CFO Human Resources McKinsey 63

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

Filled with in-depth insights from experts at McKinsey & Company, this reliable resource takes a much more qualitative approach to what the authors consider a lost art. Some examples include new technologies, changes in customer preferences, new ways of serving customers, and disruptive threats. Copyright (c) 2011.

ROIC 62

ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

ExactHire - Leadership

JUNE 3, 2022

According to McKinsey , companies succeeding at diversity are 35 percent more likely to enjoy profit margins above the median for their industry. Your campus recruiting strategy isn’t complete without an onsite job fair. Quality of Executive Leadership. A diverse workforce is good for your business. Access a passive talent pool.

Company 52

Company Diversity Career Quality 52

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Jim Kim (President of the World Bank), Peter Drucker (founder of modern management), Paul Hersey (noted author, teacher, and personal mentor of mine), and Warren Bennis (one of the world’s greatest leadership thinkers of his time). Authority on new technology and communication. Has been recognized as the World’s #1 Leadership Thinker.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

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. Google, for example, uses human capital analytics to encourage a coaching style among managers – because the analysis reveals this to be the most effective leadership style.

Leadership Styles 83

Leadership Styles Human Capital Ethics McKinsey 83

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. And so Oliver’s leadership journey began.

McKinsey 246

McKinsey Entrepreneur Technology Learning-by-Doing 246

ExactHire - Leadership

MAY 5, 2021

In 2015, McKinsey and Company found that companies with a diverse workforce performed 15 to 35 percent better than the national industry median. McKinsey followed up with a 2018 report that echoed the finding of the first: diversity is good for the bottom line. Technology may help you avoid implicit bias in your candidate selection.

Diversity 111

Diversity Compliance McKinsey Bottom-up 111

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

The widely accepted view that strategy and execution are separable activities sets companies up for failure in a fast-paced world. One of us (Paul) is a strategy scholar and economist; the other (Amy) studies organizational behavior and operations management. Wells Fargo was even good in implementing the strategy — up to a point.

Strategy 8

Strategy Agility Execution Core Competence 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

McKinsey & Co. That puts your strategy in the hands of inexperienced company strategists who are focused, often solely, on how to reach a quota. A global consulting firm I work with has an explicit strategy to target Fortune 1000 companies, yet less than 15% of their business comes from those companies.

Strategy 8

Strategy Execution How To CRM 8

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.

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Early Adopters Rate of Return 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 8, 2010

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. Indeed, a 2008 issue of the McKinsey Quarterly noted that women tend to make deeper emotional connections with colleagues and business partners.

Self-aware 72

Self-aware Media Open-book Learning-by-Doing 72

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.

Industry 12

Industry Short-term Planning Long-term 12

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

ExactHire - Leadership

JUNE 3, 2022

According to McKinsey , companies succeeding at diversity are 35 percent more likely to enjoy profit margins above the median for their industry. Your campus recruiting strategy isn’t complete without an onsite job fair. For this reason, strong executive leadership is important to 58 percent of Millennials.

Company 52

Company Diversity Career Quality 52

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Technological innovations have radically transformed the business landscape in many ways over the last two centuries, from the introduction of steam power to the market conquest of radial-ply tires. Research by McKinsey & Company and the McKinsey Global Institute shows that digitization is having the same radical impact.

Succession 8

Succession Industry McKinsey Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

When we launched the Harvard Business Review/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation last year, we aimed to enlist the most progressive practitioners and thinkers in the collective effort of reinventing what we call "the technology of human accomplishment." Syndicating the Work of Leadership. Proposed Challenges.

Innovation 8

Innovation McKinsey Management Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2015

Directors play a key role in setting corporate strategy and appointing senior executives. They are called upon to advise companies that must manage risk in an increasingly complex global operating environment and navigate disruptive technologies that threaten their business models. Third: Where in the world are they in relation to me?

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage McKinsey Advice Commitment 8