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10X Yourself as a CEO with AI
10X Yourself as a CEO with AI There is a lot of talk about leveraging artificial intelligence to transform companies. I think many CEOs are starting in the wrong place,…
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Leaders are paid to make the important decisions. They need to ensure that the organization’s decision making process is fact-based and inclusive otherwise it just becomes a battle of opinions. and , when it comes to opinions, the person with the most power typically wins.
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Success Still Requires Focused Effort
Success Still Requires Focused Effort “Success usually isn’t determined by who has access to the best tools. It’s determined by who uses those tools with the greatest discipline.” We are…
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What I learned from Daniel Kahneman
Lessons from a Genius: How Daniel Kahneman Rewired the Way We Think About Thinking “Nothing in life is…
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Where Data-Driven Decision-Making Can Go Wrong
When considering internal data or the results of a study, often business leaders either take the evidence presented…
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Four Pillars of Decision-driven Analytics
In a new book titled Decision-Driven Analytics: Leveraging Human Intelligence to Unlock the Power of Data, professors and behavioral scientists Bart…
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Before You Make That Big Decision…
When an executive makes a big bet, he or she typically relies on the judgment of a team…
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How to Talk to Your Team About a Decision You Disagree With
When you’re part of a company’s management structure, there will be moments when you’ll have to represent a…
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The Myth of the CEO as Ultimate Decision Maker
Chief executives are responsible for guiding corporations, so the role inevitably requires making many decisions. But people overestimate…
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The Potency of Shortcuts in Decision-Making
Scholars of decision-making have long recommended that CEOs and managers gather and analyze comprehensive information before making choices. This advice…
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Using ChatGPT to Make Better Decisions
A successful decision-making process has three steps: Framing the decision, generating alternatives, and deciding between them. Large language…
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The Hidden Traps in Decision Making
Bad decisions can often be traced back to the way the decisions were made–the alternatives were not clearly…
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Become More Comfortable Making Bold Decisions
Leaps of faith make great scenes in a movie, but in real life they fill us with stress…
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Into all problem-solving, a little dissent must fall
McKinsey’s research and experience in the field point to several steps leaders can take to engage in healthy…
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Allocating Capital When Interest Rates Are High
During a decade of low interest rates and abundant capital, companies greenlit many projects that make less sense…
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Why Innovation Depends on Intellectual Honesty
Fostering psychological safety isn’t enough if managers don’t pay particular attention to creating conditions for healthy debate. Innovation…
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Preparing Your Company for the Next Recession
Leaders should build resilience, local agility, and portfolio agility to prepare for the next recession. The worst of…
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Moments of Greatness: Entering the Fundamental State of Leadership
As leaders, sometimes we’re truly “on,” and sometimes we’re not. Why is that? What separates the episodes of…
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In a data-led world, intuition still matters
The challenge in today’s world is not the lack of information but the judgment to use it,” they…
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Moving Upward in a Downturn
Downturns are a recurring fact of life in every industry. Sooner or later, demand for an industry’s products…
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How Well Does Your Company Use Analytics?
Almost every company is trying to capitalize on the promise of data and analytics, but a large majority…
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Emotions Aren’t the Enemy of Good Decision-Making
Too often, when we need to make a difficult decision, we rush through it to avoid sitting with…
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Choosing to grow: The leader’s blueprint
Drawing on McKinsey’s extensive research into growth and leadership as well as our experience in partnering with leaders…
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Rev up your growth engine: Lessons from through-cycle outperformers
Previous economic crises have shown us that companies’ paths to recovery are shaped by their industries, regions, and…
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Don’t Confuse Strategy with Lofty Goals
Most companies communicate strategy as a set of aspirations and platitudes. But aspirations aren’t a strategy, and that…
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Critical Thinking Is About Asking Better Questions
Critical thinking is the ability to analyze and effectively break down an issue in order to make a…
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What Makes a Company “Future Ready”?
What makes a company “future ready”? The author analyzed top companies by revenue across four sectors, measuring seven…
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Open Up Your Strategy
Our solution to both the strategy formulation and execution challenges is radical: Open up your strategy process. Open…
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When Hiring Nobody Is Better Than Hiring Just Anybody
As the Great Resignation continues, the temptation to hire anyone willing to take the job should be tempered…
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Leaders: Stop Confusing Correlation with Causation
We must learn to analyze data and assess causal claims — a skill that is increasingly important for…
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How to Calculate the Impact and Probability of Business Risk
This risk management tool is a really easy way to visualize the impact of risk. You can use…
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Some Questions Benefit from Group Discussion. Others Don’t.
Research on the concept of “collective intelligence” has shown that in many cases, groups tend to come up…
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Facilitate collaborative breakthrough with these moves
By alternating between top-down and bottom-up approaches to problem solving, teams can make progress
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