With the onset of autumn in the Northern Hemisphere, the spirit of renewal is in the air. In this edition of Readers & Leaders, experts outline bold, new approaches to tackling familiar challenges, such as leadership, communication, inclusion, and sustainability.
In her Author Talks interview, Brunswick Group partner Lucy Parker makes the case for a new kind of leadership in business: activist leadership. To be a successful leader, she says, you must deliver financial value hand in hand with social value. In other featured interviews, Matt Abrahams, lecturer at Stanford Graduate School of Business and host of the Think Fast, Talk Smart podcast, offers tips for speaking confidently in spontaneous situations; Netta Jenkins, CEO of Aerodei, shares how misconceptions about diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) can reduce both employee productivity and retention; and Siddarth Shrikanth, climate investor and McKinsey alumnus, brings the biodiversity crisis to the forefront.
For more fresh perspectives, order Power to the Middle, by McKinsey partners Bryan Hancock and Emily Field and senior partner emeritus Bill Schaninger, for a new model for companies to radically alter the way they hire, train, and reward their most valuable asset: managers. |
