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Explore this month’s best-selling business books prepared exclusively for McKinsey Publishing by Circana and a collection of books by McKinsey authors on the management issues that matter, from leadership and talent to digital transformation, corporate finance, and more.

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A CEO for All Seasons: Mastering the Cycles of Leadership

From McKinsey & Company senior partners and the minds behind the New York Times bestseller CEO Excellence comes a compact, insight-packed guide to navigating the four distinct phases of leadership that every CEO must pass through on their way to mastery.

Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies, 8th edition

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.

The Broken Rung

The broken rung is a phenomenon even more pervasive than the glass ceiling in holding women back from career success. This book explains this phenomenon and provides strategies for moving up the corporate ladder and reaching full potential.

The Journey of Leadership

This book is the first-ever explanation of McKinsey’s step-by-step approach to transforming leaders both professionally and personally, including revealing lessons from its legendary CEO leadership program, “The Bower Forum,” which has counseled five-hundred-plus global CEOs over the past decade.

Rewired

For the first time, Rewired translates the hard-won lessons McKinsey has learned helping companies deliver successful digital and AI transformations into a detailed “how to” manual.

Power to the Middle

With rich stories and cutting-edge research, Power to the Middle offers a new model for companies to radically alter the way they hire, train, and reward their most valuable asset: managers, the true center of the organization.

CEO Excellence

What if the world’s highest-performing CEOs held a master class to share the skills and practices that have driven their success over the years?

The Titanium Economy

In The Titanium Economy, McKinsey partners Asutosh Padhi, Gaurav Batra, and Nick Santhanam reveal this under-appreciated and under-valued sector of the economy for what it really is: a reliable source of high-paying, domestic jobs and soaring stock prices—a bright spot in an economy that has too often been buffeted by external shocks.

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 challenging circumstances.

The Ecosystem Economy

The Ecosystem Economy offers a compelling new take on how the global economy is being fundamentally transformed by the acceleration of new technology development, evolving consumer preferences and behaviors, business models and organizational and performance management constructs.

Acknowledgements

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