Jim Dowling, Co-Founder . This series of blogs is inspired by an article published in McKinsey Quarterly in August of 2017, “What’s Missing in Leadership Development.” The authors offer the following from a Fortune survey, “only 7 percent of CEOs believe their companies are building effective global leaders, and just 10 percent said that their leadership-development …
McKinsey’s timely and thoughtful article on What’s Missing in Leadership Development? is worth another look. The authors summarize the problem this way “as the pace of change for strategies and business models increases, so does the cost of lagging leadership development. If CEOs and their top teams are serious about long-term performance, they need to commit themselves to …
Richard Lynch, Co-Founder . Operationalize, operate, and transform all with equal ease. That is the role of leaders. For decades, organizations have suffered from inability to operationalize and transform even as they have continuously improved their ability to operate efficiently. We find it telling that Forbes magazine and The Center for Creative Leadership do not …