N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

They are subject matter experts in their field, the brightest minds, and equipped with the immense technical skills and experience to be at the helm of the world’s most powerful and disruptive companies. But a study by McKinsey revealed that in today’s business landscape, employees also want to feel valued by their organization.

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Executive Coaching Execution Self-aware Company 318

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

A McKinsey survey found that 82% of companies don’t believe they recruit highly talented people, and only 7% think they can retain top talent once hired. This commitment to employee growth can be a strong retention tool, as employees value the opportunity to enhance their skills and advance their careers within the organization.

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Operations Loyalty Efficiency Human Capital 115

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

In The Ecosystem Economy , McKinsey’s Venkat Atluri and Miklos Dietz paint a picture of the future of education that will see the ways in which we learn transformed. As the labor market loosens, however, there is a growing call for recruitment to be based more on skills than on credentials. Salesforce is urging the U.K.

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Education Learning-by-Doing Skills McKinsey 110

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. They say business leaders tend to “underestimate Africa’s size and potential as a market, and overestimate the challenges of doing business there.”. Africa is the next growth market.

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How To Long-term Short-term Business Model 252

Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

A number of recent surveys from McKinsey research have identified three traits that are becoming leadership imperatives to respond to this growing demand for social accountability. In 2015, the World Economic Forum predicted that emotional intelligence would be one of the top 10 skills demanded by employers by 2020. Transparency.

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Emotional Intelligence Supply Chain Short-term Leadership 209

CO2

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The skills that brought you to your current position might not be the ones that will carry you to the next summit. The business landscape is continuously evolving, with new technologies, market dynamics, and workforce expectations. What works today might not work tomorrow.

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Leadership McKinsey Innovation Learning-by-Doing 78

CoachStation

AUGUST 26, 2022

Employee discretionary effort and focus are being challenged for many reasons, including the labour market and working from home. Developing the skills to engage team members is important. In years to come, when equilibrium between employers and employees normalises, the investment in these skills now will be returned in spades.

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Motivation McKinsey Attrition Influence 130

HR Digest

MAY 24, 2023

Hire skill based people People are the heart of any great business. Recent research by Remote shows skills based hiring is up 63% in the past year as more employers value experience over academic qualifications. The shift toward skills based hiring will accelerate in 2023 as skills emerge as the currency of the labor market.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Consulting giant McKinsey recently argued that the talk about Asian economic hegemony has been largely underestimated. One clear advantage for both Chinese and American digital startups is the huge domestic market they have to build within. but crucially, they have a large domestic market for budding innovators to sell to.

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Marketing McKinsey Innovation GDP 40

First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Here is an excerpt from an article co-authored by Richard Dobbs, Jaana Remes, Sven Smit, James Manyika, Jonathan Woetzel, and Yaw Agyenim-Boateng, featured online by McKinsey & Company. Emerging markets are changing where and how the world does business.

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Globalization McKinsey CEO Blog 75

Skip Prichard

AUGUST 2, 2019

Complex problem solving is the core skill for 21st century teams. I had the opportunity to speak with Charles Conn and Robert McLean, two McKinsey alums who share a seven-step systematic approach to creative problem solving that will work in any field or industry. New Skills Required. Norman Vincent Peale.

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Disaggregation McKinsey Skills Gordon 80

Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 11, 2020

According to McKinsey , many CEOs struggle to identify people good at innovation -- the “intrapreneurs” within their organizations who possess the rare mix of skills, motivation and attitude to successfully bring new ideas to market. It’s not about skill, but how they react when you pass them the ball. Why is that?

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 6, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Customer CEO: How to Profit from the Power of Your Customers Chuck Wall The Referral Engine: Teaching Your Business to Market Itself John Jantsch Disney U : How Disney University Develops the World’s Most Engaged, Loyal, [.].

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Kleiner Schein Blog McKinsey 80

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

The World Bank has projected a 9 million skilled and semi-skilled ICT workers shortage to affect Indonesia between 2015-2030. While it can feel like a localized issue, such market changes are just as possible in U.S. industries and it emphasizes the importance of the retention process in HR.

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Process Attrition Trends Training 59

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. ?.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2024

McKinsey ’s research into AI and its predictions about the future of work has a lot of useful insight to offer. With the increased adoption of AI, workers have begun fearing for the future of work , where their skill sets will become wholly insufficient to earn them a living. trillion to $5.8 trillion in annual value.

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Hedge McKinsey Technology Learning-by-Doing 52

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

CEO Excellence is a fascinating, inspiring, revealing, lesson-packed read for any leader who wants to hone their skills to achieve leadership excellence.

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CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 104

HR Digest

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

According to Mckinsey & Company , “Leaders have an essential role to play in developing solutions to tackle these challenges.” The labor market is skewed in favor of the employee. Training for gig workers and focusing on soft skills, data literacy, including Artificial Intelligence and data analytics.

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Efficiency Operations Training Diversity 105

ExactHire - Leadership

JUNE 3, 2022

According to some, they are driven more by salary than a good opportunity to learn new skills, and so at the drop of a dime will job hop for a slightly better salary. The skill shortage is real, and all the data points to the power of a diverse workforce. They witnessed several historical events before entering the job market.

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Company Diversity Career Quality 98

Six Disciplines

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

According to the McKinsey article " Brilliant Strategy, But Can You Execute? ", there were two basic kinds of strategies: transformational and operational. It takes vastly different skills to execute these two kinds of strategies.

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Operations Strategy Core Competence McKinsey 98

Eric Jacobson

MARCH 14, 2022

CEO Excellence is a fascinating, inspiring, revealing, lesson-packed read for any leader who wants to hone their skills to achieve leadership excellence.

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CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 93

Eric Jacobson

JUNE 23, 2022

CEO Excellence is a fascinating, inspiring, revealing, lesson-packed read for any leader who wants to hone their skills to achieve leadership excellence.

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CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 85

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.”

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Skills McKinsey COO Handbook 15

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 18, 2023

CEO Excellence is a fascinating, inspiring, revealing, lesson-packed read for any leader who wants to hone their skills to achieve leadership excellence.

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CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 65

Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 31, 2022

CEO Excellence is a fascinating, inspiring, revealing, lesson-packed read for any leader who wants to hone their skills to achieve leadership excellence.

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CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 65

CO2

AUGUST 8, 2013

Sometimes they’re just starting out, and others haven’t discovered their brilliance; other times, they’re poor marketers or simply not very good at their profession. We have all witnessed highly-skilled professionals failing to achieve partner status or a corner office. Assess your availability. Affability.

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McKinsey Skills Executive Coaching Reputation 110

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 27, 2019

The analysis revealed a profound bifurcation in the job market, with the split dividing the low-skill and low-wage jobs from the high-skill and high-wage senior positions. They typically require very specific and narrowly-defined skills that a much smaller pool of candidates possess.

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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. It turned out that the unit was driving profits by raising prices and cutting marketing and advertising expenditures. Copyright (c) 2011. About the Authors.

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ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

ExactHire - Leadership

JUNE 3, 2022

According to some, they are driven more by salary than a good opportunity to learn new skills, and so at the drop of a dime will job hop for a slightly better salary. The skill shortage is real, and all the data points to the power of a diverse workforce. They witnessed several historical events before entering the job market.

Company 52

Company Diversity Career Quality 52

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. He also touches on the evident need to improve educational opportunities for people throughout their life so that they can develop the skills needed to move into new careers.

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Technology Short-term Osborne Long-term 64

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. It often helps if the executive in charge is not from IT, but from operations or marketing, and that there are close links with customer-facing and other operational roles.

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Leadership Styles Human Capital Ethics McKinsey 83

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

. — along with just about every other country — is suffering from a talent mismatch: employers cannot find individuals with the skills and capabilities they need, where and when they need them. There is no mechanism that reliably signals which skills employers need so that individuals and schools can develop those skills.

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Marketing Restructuring McKinsey Education 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Nowhere else in the executive suite of a typical corporation are two functions as closely intertwined as sales and marketing. Yet for all the shared responsibility, the marketing and sales relationship has often been a contentious and lopsided one, with sales dominating in B2B sectors while marketing leads in B2C ones.

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Marketing Guidelines B2C Analysis 11

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. Include minorities in your company’s marketing campaigns.

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Diversity Compliance McKinsey Bottom-up 111

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

1) Believe in your power to make markets efficient — but abandon the efficient market dogma. The global financial markets are an extraordinary information processing engine. Assuming the market is perfectly efficient, it appears, merely damns it to inefficiency. There can be no contradiction, or so the theory goes.

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Marketing Power Short-term Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2014

Should we bring product A or B to market? Which marketing strategy should we use? In this same article, he points out that a McKinsey study of more than 1,000 business investments showed that when companies worked to reduce the effects of bias, they raised their returns on investment by seven percentage points.

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Kahneman Skills How To Marketing Strategy 9

First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Creative Conspiracy: The New Rules of Breakthrough Collaboration Leigh Thompson This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking John Brockman, Editor Unrelenting Innovation: How to Build a Culture for Market Dominance Gerard [.].

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