Let's Grow Leaders
MAY 2, 2016
Today I’m delighted to share my Winning Well interview with Gigi Barnett on CBS Baltimore. Thanks for all you are doing to help spread the Winning Well word. Excited to see so many teams using it for their Spring Book groups. Would love to hear your insights and application. If you’re enjoying Winning Well, we would really appreciate your leaving an Amazon review.
Career Advancement
MAY 23, 2016
“I learned a long time ago that the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.” ~ Maya Angelou. Melanie is in a total funk. She’s been supervisor in her high tech company for almost three years now. When she first came on board, she was considered somewhat of a superstar, a high potential, high achieving future leader.
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McKinsey
MAY 6, 2016
Ignore Bitcoin’s challenges. In this interview, Don Tapscott explains why blockchains, the technology underpinning the cryptocurrency, have the potential to revolutionize the world economy.
Penelope Trunk
MAY 28, 2016
My son’s cello teacher is dying. This is the third time she’s had cancer, so this week is my son’s last lesson with her. He has grown to love her. He cried during a lesson a few weeks ago and she said, “It’s okay. Everyone dies. Now let’s work on Saint-Saens. You need it for the master class.” So my son cries now only at home.
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Strategy+Business
MAY 17, 2016
A 2015 PwC study of 6,000 senior executives reveals that "strategic leaders" -- those equipped to manage large-scale transformation -- are in short supply. Fortunately, companies can build the capacity for this type of leadership by implementing 10 fundamental principles. These principles represent a combination of organizational systems and individual capabilities; taken together, they can unlock the potential strategic leadership in your enterprise.
Let's Grow Leaders
MAY 23, 2016
“The opposite of love is not hate– it’s indifference.” – Steven Pressfield. Megan approached me as soon as I left the stage. “Karin, I’m so with you on this not losing your soul thing… I resonated with everything you said… but for me it was the reverse. I wasn’t losing my soul at work, I was finding it.
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Let's Grow Leaders
MAY 13, 2016
My phone rang, “Karin I’ve just been told there’s going to be a restructure and significant downsizing. My team may or not be impacted. I have NO additional information, just that it will be months before all the dust settles.” Now, if you’ve been following my writing for any period of time you know I’m the poster child for transparency.
Let's Grow Leaders
MAY 4, 2016
Moms are full of wisdom, aren’t they? Many leaders credit their moms for their influence, such as: Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is as sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love. ~ Stevie Wonder. All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. ~ Abraham Lincoln.
McKinsey
MAY 9, 2016
In the consumer sector and in many other industries, transformation programs often fail. Creating a “performance infrastructure” can help ensure that yours won’t.
McKinsey
MAY 12, 2016
Many utilities see the digital revolution as a threat to their business model, but massive opportunities await those able to transform themselves ahead of the curve.
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Introducing Willow from WILL Interactive – a new artificial instructor technology that coaches users through eLearning content to increase training ROI. Using active conversations with a virtual expert not only reinforces key concepts but also helps employees think critically and creatively. Willow can ask questions, analyze responses, and deliver personalized feedback.
McKinsey
MAY 23, 2016
Governments in the Gulf Cooperation Council can influence individuals and groups to address persistent issues including youth unemployment, chronic health problems, and unsustainable water use.
McKinsey
MAY 20, 2016
A data-driven look at the link between the strategic moves of new CEOs and the performance of their companies highlights the importance of quick action and of adopting an outsider’s perspective.
McKinsey
MAY 3, 2016
Truly understanding customer needs may help companies improve not only the buying experience but also their bottom line.
McKinsey
MAY 26, 2016
Not all social technologies bring equal benefits. In a new survey, respondents say the most valuable tools make it easier for employees to collaborate—and could even transform the way organizations work.
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With the increased interest in reskilling and upskilling existing workforces, companies are looking for more training and development content and realizing that higher education has a lot to offer. Similarly, companies are finding value in providing training to students and preskilling their future workforce. The challenge is that the technology and platforms used to serve these two audiences have never had to work well together—until now.
McKinsey
MAY 11, 2016
Technology companies worth more than $1 billion—and many worth $10 billion—have fewer reasons to go public than they did in the past. Here’s what that means for them and their investors.
McKinsey
MAY 3, 2016
Organizations are succeeding with agile software and product development in discrete projects and teams. To do so in multiple business units and product groups, they must rethink foundational processes, structures, and relationships.
Penelope Trunk
MAY 9, 2016
At age ten the Farmer was doing chores before and after school and most of the weekend. This was normal for his family. It’s what his parents did and what their parents did. I told him my kids were not doing that. Being a full-time farmer means kids don’t have the chance to figure out what they really want. But now that we live on a farm, I see farming like a language.
Penelope Trunk
MAY 25, 2016
I saw a graph about when anyone is most likely to have a birthday. My mom and ex-husband and now-husband all have a birthday in the first week of April. This is statistically unlikely and it makes me think there is something I should know about astrology. But I have cognitive dissonance to becoming an expert in astrology because I think you’ll think I’m crazy and then I won’t be able to blog about it, and there is no point in being an expert in something I can’t blog abou
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Penelope Trunk
MAY 21, 2016
I arrive in San Francisco and it takes me fifteen minutes in Melissa’s apartment for her to start crying about that she is not married. “I don’t want to have kids alone. I’m not doing that,” she says. Not really fifteen minutes, but it feels like that. And I’m going to write about her new boyfriend in this post, who is not totally new because he is the same boyfriend from the last post about her new boyfriend , and he will say “It was more like five hour
McKinsey
MAY 4, 2016
Consumers have access to more healthcare information than ever. Here’s how pharmaceutical companies can better understand the way people make decisions about their care.
McKinsey
MAY 26, 2016
Although survey respondents say the value of customer analytics is declining, our findings show these analytics clearly drive value. Focusing on three factors can help companies reap the benefits.
McKinsey
MAY 18, 2016
There’s no silver bullet, but success requires being able to identify technologies, understand their implications, and deploy them in an effective, structured way in your organization.
Speaker: Leslie Grandy, Product Executive & Drew Weaver, Senior Program Manager
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McKinsey
MAY 18, 2016
Incumbents needn’t be victims of disruption if they recognize the crucial thresholds in their life cycle, and act in time.
McKinsey
MAY 17, 2016
Investing in access to essential services and reducing the gap in labor-force participation rates could significantly expand the global economy by 2025.
McKinsey
MAY 25, 2016
In a new survey on globalization, the share of executives identifying geopolitical instability as a very important business trend has doubled in two years.
McKinsey
MAY 18, 2016
Gisbert Rühl, CEO of German metals company Klöckner, embedded himself in Berlin’s start-up scene, creating two platforms to overhaul the organization’s supply chain and make steel prices more transparent.
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Penelope Trunk
MAY 2, 2016
Here is some feedback from other people who have taken writing courses with me: Penelope is absolutely brilliant at cutting through the b t. – Cheryl C. Your writing course is a way better crash course than anything I got in college. – Caitlin. As a writer, you’d think I’d just write my own testimonials, but the research that shows people instinctively know a fake testimonial.
McKinsey
MAY 4, 2016
Digital technologies and applications have the potential to markedly enhance a payor’s profits. Leadership from the top is necessary to overcome the organizational resistance to change that can make a digital transformation difficult.
McKinsey
MAY 11, 2016
To better serve companies, perform effectively, and meet emerging challenges, executives say their IT organizations should collaborate as partners with the business.
McKinsey
MAY 19, 2016
Indonesia’s economic and demographic evolution is leading to a dramatic rise in noncommunicable diseases. How big is the problem? What approaches are other countries taking that could inform Indonesia’s response?
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