CEO Journey

Candidate CEOs preparing for role

Insights on developing your skills, experience, leadership style, and personal operating model - and navigating the CEO selection process.

Article

The mindsets and practices of excellent CEOs

October 25, 2019 -

The CEO’s job is as difficult as it is important. Here is a guide to how the best CEOs think and act.

Interview

December 15, 2021 -

Three McKinsey senior partners looked across more than 20 years’ worth of data on 7,800 CEOs from 3,500 public companies...

Collection

McKinsey’s annual reading list is back for 2021.

Article - McKinsey Quarterly

January 28, 2020 -

If you’re shackled to who you are now, you can’t recognize—or reach for—who you might become next.

Article

April 20, 2018 -

Working through these questions as they prepare to take the top job can help executives clarify their thinking.

Article - McKinsey Quarterly

April 17, 2017 -

Limited operational experience is not necessarily a barrier to the top job. Here’s what CFOs and others must do to jump...

Survey

April 1, 2015 -

A new McKinsey survey finds that executives who move effectively into the C-suite are communicating priorities, valuing their...

Article - McKinsey Quarterly

January 1, 2015 -

New research suggests that the secret to developing effective leaders is to encourage four types of behavior.

Article - McKinsey Quarterly

April 1, 2014 -

Five simple exercises can help you recognize, and start to shift, the mind-sets that limit your potential as a leader.

Article - McKinsey Quarterly

August 1, 2005 -

The days, weeks, or months between taking the job and assuming power are precious. Put them to good use.