McKinsey & Company's blog
McKinsey & Company's blog
A better grasp of how value is created will help executives resist short-term pressure
By McKinsey & Company
March 19, 2011 at 6:58pm
March 19, 2011 at 6:58pm
Why good bosses tune in to their people
By McKinsey & Company
August 30, 2010 at 4:25pm
Know how to project power, counsels Stanford management professor Bob Sutton, since those you lead need to believe you have it for it to be effective. And to lock in your team’s loyalty, boldly defend their backs.
August 30, 2010 at 4:25pm
Know how to project power, counsels Stanford management professor Bob Sutton, since those you lead need to believe you have it for it to be effective. And to lock in your team’s loyalty, boldly defend their backs.
Retaining key employees in times of change
By McKinsey & Company
August 15, 2010 at 4:33pm
Many companies throw financial incentives at senior executives and star performers during times of change. There is a better and less costly solution.
August 15, 2010 at 4:33pm
Many companies throw financial incentives at senior executives and star performers during times of change. There is a better and less costly solution.
Putting a value on training
By McKinsey & Company
July 27, 2010 at 5:45pm
Training programs generate greater value for organizations when the curricula reflect key business performance metrics. Testing real-world outcomes is crucial.
July 27, 2010 at 5:45pm
Training programs generate greater value for organizations when the curricula reflect key business performance metrics. Testing real-world outcomes is crucial.
Building the next-generation business leader
By McKinsey & Company
April 28, 2010 at 5:47pm
Garth Saloner, dean of Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, discusses the challenge business schools face in educating students for a new world of companies without borders.
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April 28, 2010 at 5:47pm
Garth Saloner, dean of Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, discusses the challenge business schools face in educating students for a new world of companies without borders.
From lean to lasting: Making operational improvements stick
By McKinsey & Company
April 10, 2010 at 3:05pm
By focusing on the “soft” side of lean and Six Sigma initiatives, leading global companies gain substantial, scalable, and sustainable advantages.
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April 10, 2010 at 3:05pm
By focusing on the “soft” side of lean and Six Sigma initiatives, leading global companies gain substantial, scalable, and sustainable advantages.
The Irrational Side of Change Management
By McKinsey & Company
April 6, 2010 at 8:08am
Most change programs fail, but the odds of success can be greatly improved by taking into account these counterintuitive insights about how employees interpret their environment and choose to act.
April 6, 2010 at 8:08am
Most change programs fail, but the odds of success can be greatly improved by taking into account these counterintuitive insights about how employees interpret their environment and choose to act.
Good Boss, Bad Times
By McKinsey & Company
April 2, 2010 at 2:54pm
Management expert Robert Sutton shares lessons on handling layoffs and teams in crisis. This is a Conversation Starter, one in a series of invited opinions on topical issues. Layoffs, pay cuts, and organizational reordering have become widespread realities in the downturn. In this video interview, management professor and author Robert Sutton offers his advice on how to be a good boss in today’s difficult climate. Watch the interview and then share your thoughts on Sutton’s lessons—and what your own experience has taught you about leadership in the crisis
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April 2, 2010 at 2:54pm
Management expert Robert Sutton shares lessons on handling layoffs and teams in crisis. This is a Conversation Starter, one in a series of invited opinions on topical issues. Layoffs, pay cuts, and organizational reordering have become widespread realities in the downturn. In this video interview, management professor and author Robert Sutton offers his advice on how to be a good boss in today’s difficult climate. Watch the interview and then share your thoughts on Sutton’s lessons—and what your own experience has taught you about leadership in the crisis
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John Mackey: Can you measure trust?
Trust is difficult to measure quantitatively, but when a managers are attuned to the mood and behaviors of employees, they can sense when trust has been strengthened or undermined. The founder and CEO of Whole Foods explains why the heart is as important as the head in effective management.
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February 2012 (6)
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October 2011 (8)
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June 2011 (10)
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- Creating change: When your intuition is wrong
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May 2011 (11)
- The Hidden Costs of Overbearing Bosses
- How to Tell If You’re a Natural Leader
- The Winners of the HCL MBA M-Prize
- When it comes to project work, casting is everything
- It's Time to Take Back Your Attention
- The Art of the Game
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April 2011 (17)
- Moonshots for Managers
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- Hackathon Pilot: The Characteristics of Successful Communities of Passion by Sam Folk-Williams
- Voices from the MIX: Human Capital M-Prize Winners
- Hackathon Pilot: The Global Weave by Steve Todd
- Hackathon Pilot: Emotional Drivers and Key Principles of Communities of Passion by Paul Higgins
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- Hackathon Pilot: Nine Types of Successful Communities of Passion by Michi Komori
- Are You More Human than the Competition?
- Three Forces Disrupting Management
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March 2011 (15)
- Why Business is Brain-Dead--and How to Wake Up
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- Enduring Success—What the History of Outstanding Corporations Has to Teach Us
- Paths to Innovative Leadership
- Announcing the Winners of the HCI Human Capital M-Prize
- Want to be a part of the Hackathon Pilot? Well, come on then.
- Inventing the Future Together: Introducing the Hackathon Pilot
- Inventing the Future Together: Introducing the Hackathon Pilot
- Want to be a part of the Hackathon Pilot? Well, come on then.
- Hackathon Pilot Update #1: Our work begins!
- Hackathon Pilot Update #2: Research notes and a hack zone prototype
- Reimagining the organization Wikipedia-style: How a Thousand Volunteers Built a Strategic Plan
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- Taking the Work Out of Work--by Adding Higher Purpose
- Worth Preserving: What Business Leaders can learn from the Renaissance
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February 2011 (11)
- 10 Ways to Unleash the Best and Ignite Passion in Your People
- The Hole in the Soul of Business
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- A Millennial Map to the Future
- Power Rules
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- We Want Your Vote—And Your Ideas!
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January 2011 (7)
- It's Time for Some New Habits--the Year of the Meaning Organization
- There's still time to enter to win the HCI Human Capital M-Prize
- There is still time to enter to win the HCI Human Capital M-Prize
- The Art of Impossibility
- Laugh Harder, Do Better
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- Turn "They should" conversations into "We should" conversations
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December 2010 (14)
- Business: Time for a Reboot
- Whistle While You Work (But Only if You're Winning)
- Building a Better Boss with Bob Sutton
- Tim O'Reilly asks, Do employees know what they need to know?
- Leading vs. Managing: A False Choice
- I'm Bored - The Significance Manifesto
- Hire "athletes", not experts
- What is organizational health?
- Lucy Kellaway on the Do's and Dont's of Firing Memos
- Who's Really Innovative?
- What are the core values of the MIX?
- Here's a Resolution Worth Working On: Have More Fun
- Moving Past Austerity—Let's Make 2011 the Year of Honesty, Humanity and Generosity
- Seven counterintuitive truths for managers
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November 2010 (17)
- Check out "21 Types of Fun"
- People rocking the MIX: Aaron Anderson
- Gary Hamel talks with Henry Chesbrough on Open Services Innovation
- From Where Should We Lead?
- Do's and Don'ts for Your Work's Social Platforms
- Imperious Institutions, Impotent Individuals
- Alexander Fleming – Playing at Work and Saving Human Lives
- Great storytellers: the key to enabling a community of passion
- Follow-up Questions to the Managing Millennials webinar
- Women in Leadership : Neelam Manwani
- Game Design Principles and the Way We Work
- The M Word
- Capitalism is Dead. Long Live Capitalism.
- A community of passion growing in the Amazon rainforest
- Creating a Context for Creativity
- When passion makes people want to sing... about work
- Announcing the M-Prize Winners: Audacity, Imagination, Experimentation
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September 2010 (11)
- What is your Management Model?
- Tweet a Hack Contest: "Increase Trust"—in 140 characters or less!
- We Work in Public
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- M-Prize Contenders: Stories on Taking the Work out of Work
- The Facebook Generation vs. the Fortune 500
- Do We Get Gen "Why"?
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- Empowering Natural Leaders in ‘Facebook Generation’ Ways
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August 2010 (6)
- JetBlue Flight Attendant Steven Slater was Mad as Hell
- Did employee resentment catch up with HP's Mark Hurd?
- Tweet a Hack Contest: Help us "Take the Work out of Work"—in 140 characters or less!
- 25 Tweets Aimed at Taking the Work out of Work
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- Tweet a Hack: The Results Are In!
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