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POWER TO THE MIDDLE
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their most valuable asset: managers, the true center of the organization.
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THE TITANIUM ECONOMY
How industrial technology can create a better, faster, stronger America
DELIBERATE CALM
A trio of McKinsey & Company veterans draws from a unique combination of
psychology, neuroscience, and consciousness practices plus a combined 50-plus
years of international board room experience to offer a unique approach to
learning and leading with awareness and intentional choice, even amidst the most
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ACTIVATING MIDDLE MANAGERS THROUGH CAPABILITY BUILDING
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Middle managers can drive the success of organizations, but first they need the
skills to succeed. Targeted training can help.
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July 13, 2023 -
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transformations so companies can build competitive advantage.
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issues that matter? We’ve got you covered. Put on your nifty noise-cancelling
headphones and unwind with this music playlist, curated by the editors of
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AUTHOR TALKS
Author Talks features insightful conversations with authors on crucial
management topics including leading through a crisis, unleashing innovation,
achieving work-life balance, fine-tuning communication skills, coping with
organizational culture shifts, and more.
STRATEGY
THE ECOSYSTEM ECONOMY
Venkat Atluri and Miklós Dietz
2022– The Ecosystem Economy offers a compelling new take on how the global
economy is being fundamentally transformed. Prepare your organization for a
competitive new landscape.
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VALUATION: MEASURING AND MANAGING THE VALUE OF COMPANIES, 7TH EDITION
Tim Koller, Marc Goedhart, David Wessels
2020 - At the crossroads of corporate strategy and finance lies valuation. This
book enables everyone, from the budding professional to the seasoned manager, to
excel at measuring and maximizing shareholder and company value.
Learn moreRead a related article
BULLETPROOF PROBLEM SOLVING: THE ONE SKILL THAT CHANGES EVERYTHING
Charles Conn and Robert McLean
2019 – This book outlines a seven-step, systematic approach to creative problem
solving that will work in any field or industry, helping to transform the way
you approach problems and take you to the next level of business and personal
success.
Learn moreRead a related interview
GO LONG: WHY LONG-TERM THINKING IS YOUR BEST SHORT-TERM STRATEGY
Dennis Carey, Brian Dumaine, Michael Useem, and Rodney Zemmel
2018 – Inspired by an annual off-the-record gathering of chief executives
organized by the authors, Go Long reveals how some of the world’s most prominent
business leaders resisted short-term pressures to successfully manage their
organizations for the long term.
Learn moreRead the article
STRATEGY BEYOND THE HOCKEY STICK: PEOPLE, PROBABILITIES, AND BIG MOVES TO BEAT
THE ODDS
Chris Bradley, Martin Hirt, and Sven Smit
2018 – Strategy Beyond the Hockey Stick is about unlocking big moves because
that’s what it takes to beat the odds in business. Anchored in empirical
evidence from 1000s of companies, it reveals what really matters and what
doesn’t for exceptional performance.
Learn moreRead the article
NO ORDINARY DISRUPTION: THE FOUR GLOBAL FORCES BREAKING ALL THE TRENDS
Richard Dobbs, James Manyika, and Jonathan Woetzel
2015 – The world not only feels different. The data tell us it is different.
This book is a timely and important analysis of how we need to reset our
intuition as a result of four forces colliding and transforming the global
economy.
Learn moreRead an excerpt
IN SEARCH OF EXCELLENCE: LESSONS FROM AMERICA’S BEST RUN COMPANIES
Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman
2006 – Based on a study of 43 of America’s best-run companies from a diverse
array of business sectors, this book describes eight basic principles of
management that made these organizations successful.
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LEADERSHIP & ORGANIZATION
BEYOND PERFORMANCE 2.0
Scott Keller and Bill Schaninger
2019 – Beyond Performance 2.0 more than doubles your odds of successfully
leading significant, sustainable change by applying equal levels of insight and
rigor to the “hard” and “soft” elements that matter.
Learn moreRead an excerpt
LEADERSHIP AT SCALE
Claudio Feser, Michael Rennie, and Nicolai Chen Nielsen
2018 – Leadership at Scale provides leaders with the systematic and fact-based
leadership development approach they need to unlock organizational performance
in today’s fast-paced business environment.
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LEADING ORGANIZATIONS: TEN TIMELESS TRUTHS
Scott Keller and Mary Meaney
2017 – Leading Organizations identifies the most challenging organizational
issues leaders face, providing the hard facts, big ideas, and practical “how to”
steps to address those issues.
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WHEN EXECUTION ISN’T ENOUGH: DECODING INSPIRATIONAL LEADERSHIP
Claudio Feser
2016 – Inspired people have the energy and persistence needed to achieve
extraordinary results and transform organizations. This book shows what it takes
to win the minds and hearts of the people you lead.
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CONNECT: HOW COMPANIES SUCCEED BY ENGAGING RADICALLY WITH SOCIETY
John Browne, Robin Nuttall, and Tommy Stadlen
2016 – Drawing on the experience of John Browne, the former CEO of BP, and the
insight of two McKinsey experts, this book articulates and explores the
recurring rift between big business and society, offering a practical manifesto
for reconciliation.
Learn moreRead the interview
CENTERED LEADERSHIP: A BREAKTHROUGH PROGRAM FOR LEADING WITH PURPOSE, CLARITY,
AND IMPACT
Joanna Barsh and Johanne Lavoie
2014 – By studying the stories of leaders and working with Fortune 100
companies, Joanna Barsh and Johanne Lavoie explore why some talented people rise
to the top and create positive and sustained impact, while others stop short of
their full leadership potential.
Learn moreRead the article
HOW REMARKABLE WOMEN LEAD: THE BREAKTHROUGH MODEL FOR WORK AND LIFE
Joanna Barsh, Susie Cranston Hamilton, and Geoffrey Lewis
2011 – This book presents unique ideas about successful leadership. Personal
stories and related insights show how success results from combining the five
elements of centered leadership: meaning, framing, connecting, engaging, and
energizing.
Learn moreRead the article
MOBILIZING MINDS: CREATING WEALTH FROM TALENT IN THE 21ST-CENTURY ORGANIZATION
Lowell Bryan and Claudia Joyce
2007 – By tapping into employees’ talents, knowledge, and skills, you can earn
tens of thousands of additional dollars per employee, and manage the barriers
that prevent real achievements. This can only be done through organizational
design and redesign.
Learn moreRead an excerpt
DIGITAL
FAST TIMES: HOW DIGITAL WINNERS SET DIRECTION, LEARN, AND ADAPT
Arun Arora, Peter Dahlstrom, Klemens Hjartar, and Florian Wunderlich
2020 – Today’s technology demands lightning-fast changes. But speed without
purpose is not progress. McKinsey leaders cut through the hype to provide an
inside look into what digital winners do best: set direction, learn, and adapt
faster than anyone else.
Learn moreRead an excerpt
DIGITAL @ SCALE: THE PLAYBOOK YOU NEED TO TRANSFORM YOUR COMPANY
Jürgen Meffert and Anand Swaminathan
2017 – Value in the next phase of the digital era will go to those companies
that don’t just try digital but also scale it. This book examines what it takes
to break through the gravitational pull of legacy organizations and capture the
full value of digital.
Learn moreRead an excerpt
BEYOND CYBERSECURITY: PROTECTING YOUR DIGITAL BUSINESS
James M. Kaplan, Tucker Bailey, Derek O’Halloran, Alan Marcus, and Chris Rezek
2015 – Founded upon proprietary research, client experience, and interviews with
over 200 executives, regulators, and security experts, this text arms your
company against devastating online security breaches.
Learn moreRead an excerpt
TALENT, CULTURE & CHANGE MANAGEMENT
TALENT WINS: THE NEW PLAYBOOK FOR PUTTING PEOPLE FIRST
Ram Charan, Dominic Barton, and Dennis Carey
2018 – Written for CEOs and leaders across the organization, Talent Wins
provides a much-needed framework for transforming how companies acquire, manage,
and deploy talent—for today’s agile, digital, analytical, technologically driven
strategic environment.
Learn moreRead an excerpt
YOU: THE POSITIVE FORCE IN CHANGE!
Eileen Rogers and Nick van Dam
2018 – The human brain is wired to resist change. In this book, leadership
experts Eileen Rogers and Nick van Dam share insights and methods to making the
transition to a more consultative, “emotionally intelligent” approach to leading
change.
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MASTERING COACHING: PRACTICAL INSIGHTS FOR DEVELOPING HIGH PERFORMANCE
Max Landsberg
2016 – This book summarizes the most important research in areas such as
neuroscience, sports psychology, mindfulness, and goal-setting and offers a
practical guide to how this new thinking can help coaches and managers to
develop their own coaching practice.
HOW TO HAVE A GOOD DAY: HARNESS THE POWER OF BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE TO TRANSFORM
YOUR WORKING LIFE
Caroline Webb
2016 – In How to Have a Good Day, economist and former McKinsey partner Caroline
Webb shows readers how to use recent findings from behavioral economics,
psychology, and neuroscience to transform our approach to everyday working life.
Learn moreRead the article
PRIMED TO PERFORM: HOW TO BUILD THE HIGHEST PERFORMING CULTURES THROUGH THE
SCIENCE OF TOTAL MOTIVATION
Neel Doshi and Lindsay McGregor
2015 – Primed to Perform explains the counter-intuitive science behind great
cultures, building on over a century of academic thinking.
Learn more
THE TAO OF COACHING
Max Landsberg
1996 – To get the most out of individual employees, companies and managers are
turning to coaching as a means of enhancing performance. This practical guide
shows how to develop the necessary habits and skills needed to become a good
coach.
Learn more
MARKETING & SALES
MARKETING PERFORMANCE: HOW MARKETERS DRIVE PROFITABLE GROWTH
Thomas Bauer, Tjark Freundt, Jonathan Gordon, Jesko Perrey, and Dennis Spillecke
2016 – This book addresses the most pressing marketing performance questions for
CMOs who have an investor’s mindset. This isn’t a work of theory. It’s a
hands-on guide to better marketing, neatly packaged into ten concise chapters.
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POWER BRANDS: MEASURING, MAKING, AND MANAGING BRAND SUCCESS
Jesko Perrey, Tjark Freundt, and Dennis Spillecke
2015 – What distinguishes a brand-name product? How can companies enhance the
value of their brands? What steps can executives take to manage their brands
successfully? Answers to these and other questions can be found with McKinsey’s
BrandMatics-Konzept.
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ON MCKINSEY
THE MINTO PYRAMID PRINCIPLE: LOGIC IN WRITING, THINKING, AND PROBLEM SOLVING
Barbara Minto
1996 – This work has been designed as an aid to the logical presentation of
business communications. Topics covered range from the difference between
deductive and inductive reasoning to a discussion of how to highlight the
structure of information.
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