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.
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…
The Wisdom to Stop: Knowing When to Pull the Plug on a Business Initiative Not long ago, I was facilitating an issue-processing session with a group of CEOs when one…
Bad decisions can often be traced back to the way the decisions were made–the alternatives were not clearly…
Annual Goal-Setting and Performance Assessment Tool A Reflective Planning Resource for Leaders Who Want to Align Their Growth,…
Scaling and replication are two different approaches to organically grow your business. Scaling involves increasing the size and…
Leaps of faith make great scenes in a movie, but in real life they fill us with stress…
Why This Book Matters Life and leadership come at us fast. Whether it’s running a business, managing a…
McKinsey’s research and experience in the field point to several steps leaders can take to engage in healthy…
During a decade of low interest rates and abundant capital, companies greenlit many projects that make less sense…
Fostering psychological safety isn’t enough if managers don’t pay particular attention to creating conditions for healthy debate. Innovation…
Donald T. Phillips, in his book Martin Luther King on Leadership, does an impressive job of providing significant…
In business, there is often no shortage of opportunities for a leadership team to consider. With numerous options, it can…
Leaders should build resilience, local agility, and portfolio agility to prepare for the next recession. The worst of…
A strategic planning outline serves as a foundational guide for businesses to define their vision, analyze their position…
As leaders, sometimes we’re truly “on,” and sometimes we’re not. Why is that? What separates the episodes of…
You need to score to win at anything in life, and to score, you need to play offense!…
The challenge in today’s world is not the lack of information but the judgment to use it,” they…
There is a famous Jack Welch quote where he says, “Never miss out on an opportunity like a…
Downturns are a recurring fact of life in every industry. Sooner or later, demand for an industry’s products…
Almost every company is trying to capitalize on the promise of data and analytics, but a large majority…
Too often, when we need to make a difficult decision, we rush through it to avoid sitting with…
Drawing on McKinsey’s extensive research into growth and leadership as well as our experience in partnering with leaders…
Courage still matters in business and in life. Many of us avoid the difficult decisions or talk ourselves…
The idea is simple: the life you want grows out of the thoughts you practice and the actions…
Business leadership isn't easy. If it were, everyone would be able to do it. Some talented people make…
Previous economic crises have shown us that companies’ paths to recovery are shaped by their industries, regions, and…
I believe that business and nonprofit leaders need to think differently about what constitutes success. Besides the quality…
Most companies communicate strategy as a set of aspirations and platitudes. But aspirations aren’t a strategy, and that…
The leadership journey requires you to cogitate constantly on the role you and others should be playing. As…
Critical thinking is the ability to analyze and effectively break down an issue in order to make a…
You Are Now Less Dumb won’t turn you into a perfect thinker—but it will make you reliably less…
What makes a company “future ready”? The author analyzed top companies by revenue across four sectors, measuring seven…
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