CEO Blog

MAY 30, 2012

My 4:30 Flight yesterday was cancelled so I rebooked on the 6:30 which was also cancelled (the glamour of business travel). The book is written by three McKinsey and Company partners so the analysis is clean and full of good data but dry. So could not make my board meeting today in person. So I was upset.

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McKinsey Marketing Travel Strategy 133

The Practical Leader

AUGUST 20, 2012

This was clearly identified in a McKinsey & Company large scale global survey of CEOs and senior executives where 76 percent cited leadership development as important. Our organizations — and our world — need dramatically stronger leadership to address the massive challenges and changes engulfing us.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership McKinsey 53

The Practical Leader

AUGUST 20, 2012

This was clearly identified in a McKinsey & Company large scale global survey of CEOs and senior executives where 76 percent cited leadership development as important. Our organizations — and our world — need dramatically stronger leadership to address the massive challenges and changes engulfing us.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership McKinsey 45

Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Between surging demand, labor shortages, outdated air traffic management, and travel reservation I.T. systems, air travel feels a bit more like a chore than like a treat. I F YOU’VE HAD to be on a plane in the last year or so, especially within the U.S., In the U.S., logistics, and finance.

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Industry Stage-Gate Organization Company 270

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2015

McKinsey’s analysis shows that 30% of social media users prefer social care to phoning customer service. Some retailers have been able to increase sales conversions 10-15% by tailoring their social media content based on customers’ previous purchases, according to McKinsey research. in the past two years.

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CRM Company Airlines Guidelines 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2012

Hiring and grooming local talent in key markets makes plenty of sense, but as IESE Business School professor Pankaj Ghemawat explains in McKinsey Quarterly, firms that rely so heavily on localization that they no longer groom expatriates are being shortsighted.

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Wireless How To McKinsey Globalization 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2016

But imagine the cultural norms of a global consulting firm like McKinsey that also happens to be in Riyadh. It would also be useful to know if the people you are interacting with are locals , born and raised in that particular setting and without extensive travel experience, or if they are cosmopolitans , with extensive travel background.

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Travel McKinsey Learning-by-Doing Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Previous McKinsey research has highlighted a strong correlation between leadership performance and organizational health, itself a strong predictor of a robust bottom line. At McKinsey, we’ve been working on this issue with our own colleagues as well as with business leaders. Look at policies covering travel, email (e.g.,

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Leadership McKinsey Stress Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2015

A 2013 McKinsey report found that only 34 percent of directors felt the boards they served on had a complete understanding of current strategy and just 22 percent had full knowledge of how the company created value. Third: Where in the world are they in relation to me?

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Competitive Advantage McKinsey Advice Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

” A 10-year McKinsey study on flow found that top executives are up to 500% more productive when they’re in a state of flow. Traveling, often long-distance, to meet people face-to-face, when a phone call would suffice. Flow refers to the state of full immersion in an activity, and you might know it best as “the zone.”

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Outsourcing Stress Productivity Products 15

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 Travel, living in a new country, and the opportunities for career advancement that may come with working for a multinational firm were all reasons that dual expats gave for their global career aspirations.

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Succession Globalization Tacit Knowledge GDP 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2017

A few years later they were caught napping when online upstarts disrupted industries such as music, travel, news, and video, while transforming scores of others. Once the dot-com bust happened, these companies shut down or significantly downscaled their online efforts. In the mid-2000s, the buzz was about cloud computing.

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Insurance Video Long-term Project 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

“He abandoned you for more money and travel, without thinking twice about Green Horizon’s mission or your friendship. He had been wooed by the 75% salary increase and the opportunity to travel, he told Ram, but he wanted to feel like he was helping to build something again, not just keep someone else’s business running.

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Case Study Real Estate Travel Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

At a minimum, this Apple TV could change education, hospitality, work, and travel. Let''s think about the travel industry. Direct spending on business travel by domestic and international travelers totaled $249 billion in 2011. Once we have traveled by Apple TV, we won''t go back. So let''s behold them.

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Disintermediation Hotels Airlines Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2017

Spreadsheet summaries, checklists, flow charts documenting complex operations, project planning meetings …pretend you’re from McKinsey, and your job is to help the organization manage without you. You’ve decided to leave the organization, and the decision was driven by your needs as a working parent.

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Career Long-term Human Capital Mentor 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

For the most part, I've traveled an entrepreneurial career path. After two years at McKinsey, I co-founded a venture capital firm in Canada, moved on to a couple startups here in the Valley, and then ended up at Google. What follows are excerpts of Lawee's remarks. Today I run all of Google's investments and acquisitions.

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Entrepreneur McKinsey Technology Career 15

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. If you pursue problems that you know about already, you are unlikely to travel far from your current operational model.

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Innovation P&L ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

Travel to Singapore, for example, and you will see why. As a firm, McKinsey finds consulting projects and then matches them with people they have recruited and trained. And they are losing money: Uber’s losses in just the first half of 2016 totaled over $1.27 That logic sometimes holds, but more often it does not.

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McCallum Competitive Advantage Business Model Consultative 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2013

Top global consultancies Deloitte and McKinsey estimate the size of the African middle class at between 200 million and 300 million. Instead, Africa has only two super-classes: the über-rich, and a large sprawl of poor people who nevertheless are inclined towards consumption. Between these extremes is a multitude of other estimates.

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Class Globalization Banking Education 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2017

Jane is a marketing director at a technology firm, where she manages a small team, works late, and travels once per quarter. A 2015 study from McKinsey and LeanIn.org found that “women in senior management are seven times more likely than men at the same level to say they do more than half of the housework.”

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Delegation Outsourcing Insurance Loyalty 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

On average, Americans spend twenty-eight minutes a month travelling to get cash, but that time isn’t evenly distributed. India, where about 60% of adults are unbanked according to McKinsey, is also a cash-heavy economy for transactions and high in its use of gold as a store of value.

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Cost Transportation Banking Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

As they can be more easily corrected if they go wrong, and are more difficult to imitate as they’re harder to see — such as traveling with your own pillow, to get a better night’s sleep. They prefer to make lots of tiny tweaks, rather than looking for large breakthroughs.

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Organization Learning-by-Doing Open-book McKinsey 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2015

When Fernández-Aráoz worked for McKinsey in Europe in the 1980s, he wanted to move back to Argentina so he let the office leader know that he’d be leaving the job. He got a great reference from his former boss at McKinsey who talked about his openness and loyalty to the firm.

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Short-term McKinsey Long-term Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

What’s more, the recent McKinsey study on Greek competitiveness shows that the country’s biggest challenge has been a lack of investment. In his first four months in office, he put his signature to 403 documents, 245 of which were approvals for travel for himself and his appointees. In a country slipping from 1.8%

Banking 8

Banking Crisis Tourism Policies 8

Ask Atma

JANUARY 2, 2011

Travel management (sometimes assigned to accounting rather than HRM). There are many capable consultants ranging from one person independent contractors to large multi-national firms like McKinsey & Company. Induction, orientation and organizational socialization. Skills management. Training and development. Time management.

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Management CRM Objective Human Resources 40

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2013

While there is great value from an intensive, offsite program such as Fullbridge, they can also be relatively expensive, running from $3 to $15K per student, depending on travel, infrastructure, and other costs. Both Nick and his manager credit Fullbridge for providing him improved analytical and presentation skills.

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EBITDA Human Resources McKinsey Cost 10

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.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Crisis Kotter 8

Leading Blog

JANUARY 31, 2023

via @KelloggSchool It’s time to consider how you spend each of the 168 hours you’ve got every week Every company is a software company: Six ‘must dos’ to succeed via @McKinsey Patti Davis: What Silence Teaches Us from @JohnBaldoni Don't Coddle Your Audience!

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McKinsey Airlines Tips Travel 405

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2011

For forty years , every decision at Southwest, from focusing the fleet on 737s to perfecting the rapid turnaround to choosing the ticker symbol "LUV", has advanced the cause of giving regular folks the same freedom and flexibility to travel as the wealthy. That's because there is no place to hide.

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McKinsey Banking Mission Statement Document 13

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

He traveled with him, assisted, advised, strategized, campaigned and learned from America’s most controversial president. As his personal aide and then Deputy Assistant in the White House Chapin was with him in his most private and most public moments.

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Books Leadership P&L Blog 369