N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

In the years that have passed, we’ve continued to expand and refine the list by looking for CHROs able to innovate and outperform their peers regardless of current market dynamics in play at the time. Remember, it’s the people and culture who enable technology and marketing success – not the other way around. ?.

Human Resources 469

Human Resources Globalization Diversity Resources 469

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Firstly, executive coaching has long been shown to bring ROI to businesses overall, with one study showing that executive coaching produced a 529% ROI and “significant intangible benefits to the business.” This is due to the fact that increasingly, employee values are shifting in the workplace.

Executive Coaching 318

Executive Coaching Execution Self-aware Company 318

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

The big shift in organizational needs and long-term reliance on digital solutions are creating demand for upskilling and reskilling across the globe. Workers who adapt and grow with the organization in a time of accelerated change will be able to launch products and services that meet market needs. Big data specialists.

Skills 145

Skills Emotional Intelligence CFO Power 145

CoachStation

AUGUST 26, 2022

Employee discretionary effort and focus are being challenged for many reasons, including the labour market and working from home. Yet, too often managers see them as negotiable. Gallup estimates that managers account for at least 70% of the variance in employee engagement across business units. Engagement at work matters.

Motivation 130

Motivation McKinsey Attrition Influence 130

HR Digest

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Training Remote Managers. According to Mckinsey & Company , “Leaders have an essential role to play in developing solutions to tackle these challenges.” Managers will increasingly need to take up more innovative roles to manage disparate and dispersed teams. The labor market is skewed in favor of the employee.

Efficiency 105

Efficiency Operations Training Diversity 105

Coaching Tip

MAY 7, 2012

When McKinsey & Co. asked senior executives at 60 big companies recently why they are trying to advance women, "they laughed at us," says Dominic Barton, McKinsey's global managing director. The McKinsey study shows women in general opt at far higher rates than men for staff jobs, sometimes labeled "the pink ghetto."

McKinsey 112

McKinsey Leadership Career Diversity 112

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 1, 2019

The research was arguably the first study that attempted to predict how technologies such as artificial intelligence and robotics would impact the labour market. While there are good reasons to be optimistic about the long run, such optimism is only possible if we successfully manage the short-term dynamics,” he writes.

Technology 64

Technology Short-term Osborne Long-term 64

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

While you can find numerous books focused on the topic of corporate finance, few offer the type of information managers need to help them make important decisions day in and day out. Examines ways to maintain and grow value through mergers, acquisitions, and portfolio management.

ROIC 62

ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Volatility has returned to global markets, and consumer and business confidence is once again slipping. In scores of conversations I've had with business leaders, pension fund trustees, asset managers, employer associations, and NGOs since I first issued this call in HBR , everyone has agreed with the goal.

Long-term 8

Long-term CEO Short-term McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

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. Some large investors already have a long-term view. Take consumer goods giant Unilever.

Long-term 12

Long-term CEO Short-term Asset Management 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

McKinsey has a new study out on an important topic — the question of whether corporations systematically take too short a view and do not invest enough for the long term. On the one hand, there are many anecdotes suggesting that pressures to manage earnings hold back investment. It has a reasonable methodology.

McKinsey 9

McKinsey Short-term Long-term Comparison 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

For more than two years, we and others have been talking about the need to shift the prevailing view among managers, boards of directors and investors from "quarterly capitalism" to what we call "capitalism for the long term". 1) Believe in your power to make markets efficient — but abandon the efficient market dogma.

Marketing 11

Marketing Power Short-term Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2017

The McKinsey Global Institute, in conjunction with FCLT Global, recently released research stating that long-term-oriented companies perform better than those that focus on short-term results. FCLT and McKinsey rely on readily available and machine-readable accounting data to measure myopia.

EPS 8

EPS Metrics Depreciation Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

A 2014 global survey of more than 600 C-suite executives and directors, conducted by the non-profit Focusing Capital for the Long Term (FCLT), reported that two-thirds of those surveyed said pressure for short-term results had increased over the previous five years. And short-term thinking since that survey has not abated.

CEO 8

CEO Short-term Long-term McKinsey 8

ExactHire - Leadership

MAY 5, 2021

Most business owners think of diversity in the workplace in terms of the compliance regulations imposed by the federal government. In 2015, McKinsey and Company found that companies with a diverse workforce performed 15 to 35 percent better than the national industry median. Their GPA may have suffered under long work hours.

Diversity 111

Diversity Compliance McKinsey Bottom-up 111

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2018

But how will AI impact the economy in broad terms? New research from the McKinsey Global Institute simulates the potential global macroeconomic impact of five powerful technologies (computer vision, natural language, virtual assistants, robotic process automation, and advanced machine learning).

GDP 10

GDP McKinsey Long-term Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Even more striking, new research from the McKinsey Global Institute analyzes firm-level financial results and finds a stark contrast in performance between the biggest U.S. Many of the small and midsize manufacturers that did manage to survive kept going by cutting costs, which has led to stagnant wage growth. Even when large U.S.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain McKinsey Incentives Bottom-up 8

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

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 8, 2010

As a leader and manager, you’ll learn how to use these tools to harness social interactions to improve your business and to create your own social nation. The book provides a social assessment for leaders, managers and employees to scientifically evaluate your individual social skills and competencies. Juliano Howard T.

Self-aware 72

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

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2011

The case for embracing the maximization of long-term shareholder value as the governing objective for publicly traded companies has been persuasively argued many times. Michael Mauboussin of Legg Mason Capital Management, Dominic Barton of McKinsey, and Charles Elson of the University of Delaware have addressed the topic in this forum.

Short-term 12

Short-term Long-term Incentives Objective 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. This has long seemed intuitively true to us. Who are these overachievers and how did we identify them?

Long-term 8

Long-term EPS Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

For chief executives, developing a good strategy is a management challenge that, at its best, involves maximizing the unique contributions of very different executives and, at its worst, requires managing counterproductive tension and turf wars between CFOs, CSOs and, quite often, business-unit heads. Embracing the long-term view.

Strategy 8

Strategy CFO Finance Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

A recent McKinsey report found that while 84% of corporate executives think innovation is key to achieving growth objectives, only 6% are satisfied with the innovation performance of their firm. Even if executives try to prioritize it, innovation often gets crowded out by more “urgent” short-term pressures.

Innovation 8

Innovation P&L ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2018

Even companies that claim to have a long-term orientation worry about whether R&D is worth the investment. According to Williamson, a current concern among many institutional investors as well as corporations is that long-term investments in R&D have little payoff. R&D Seldom Walks Out the Door.

Long-term 10

Long-term Innovation Technology Stage-Gate 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

We then virtually convened the project’s advisers for a roundtable discussion about what they viewed as the major issues raised in the interviews, and their own counsel for executives wishing to create long-term value through a sustainable business agenda. And maybe it’ll attract consumers who care about sustainability.

Project 8

Project Advice Henderson Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

In the late 1990s, Steven Hankin of McKinsey provoked a lot of discussion when he coined the phrase “the war for talent.” In the United States, and in West European markets, the challenges center around talent replenishment and knowledge transfer to assure that productivity remains high even as the Baby Boomer population starts to retire.

Long-term 8

Long-term Globalization McKinsey Education 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Just yesterday, on the front page of the New York Times , came a report about how "low-level engineers, product managers and prominent managers" from the executive ranks are leaving the company for high-profile companies such as Facebook as well as venture-funded startups of the sort that dot the technology landscape.

Tacit Knowledge 15

Tacit Knowledge Long-term McKinsey Venture Funding 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Applying a form of TCO to workforce programs makes sense because, instead of concentrating on inputs (in the form of spending), this approach emphasizes outcomes (in the form of long-term results). For the last two years we have been implementing Generation, a youth employment program that is part of the McKinsey Social Initiative.

Metrics 11

Metrics TCO Training Cost-Benefit Analysis 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

Something astonishing is happening to the market for young, smart labor. And so, despite lacking resources, brand name, and job security of larger firms, start-ups are incredibly alluring — in fact, they get away with paying average salaries that are often 30 percent below market. But start-ups do more than just good marketing.

Trends 9

Trends McKinsey Career Marketing 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2012

I spent a few invigorating hours with Chris, who is a judge for our Long-Term Capitalism Challenge , in Boston last week to unpack a short course of some of the most important lessons from the book. There's this complaint: 'I'd love to think and manage for the long term, but Wall Street won't let me.'

GDP 11

GDP Long-term Meyer Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2015

Especially since what was true in the job market 20 years ago — even two years ago — is not necessarily gospel now. And the market is constantly changing. ” It may seem logical that you want to have a job in hand before you reveal to your manager that you’re leaving. But how can you know whom to trust?

Short-term 8

Short-term McKinsey Long-term Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

First, the global goals campaign represents a significant new opportunity for companies that view emerging and frontier markets as their source of long-term growth. Since 2011, as emerging markets have suffered from slower growth and fresh social unrest, that $30 trillion prize seems more distant. The case is clear.

Goal 8

Goal Supply Chain Development Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

First we see major shifts in demand: developing economies such as China and India are morphing from the world's source of low-cost manufacturing capacity to the world's best market opportunities. McKinsey has identified more than 20 distinct submarkets in China, for example. Demand is Shifting. but also the risks.

Globalization 9

Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2017

According to a recent McKinsey Global Institute report , the number of people in the global labor force will reach 3.5 This type of orientation can be incredibly valuable to cultivate for anyone working for multinationals or in other global careers, and can also be used by managers to develop employees. Photo by Christine Roy.

Succession 15

Succession Globalization Tacit Knowledge GDP 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

According to one McKinsey study , the success rate for organizational redesign efforts is less than 25%. It is an ongoing management discipline; as a living, breathing organism, your organization must be continually refined and improved. What are our markets? And yet when it comes to reorganization, they’re the norm.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Supply Chain Bureaucracy McKinsey 8

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

percent of senior managerial and directorial roles , according to McKinsey. Establish Benchmarks Make it a point to define industry and market benchmarks to compare your organization’s compensation practices. Consider both immediate adjustments and long-term strategies for preventing future disparities.

System 52

System How To Benchmarking Diversity 52

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Recent research from the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) looked at the state of digitization in sectors across the U.S. Companies in the leading sectors make more extensive use of digital payments, digital marketing, and design-led product development. They take advantage of e-commerce platforms — and may even operate their own.

Industry 8

Industry Benchmarking Supply Chain Health Care 8