Mindset to action: Imperatives for Growth
Profitable growth is difficult to achieve and sustain even in the best of times. Nevertheless, some companies succeed, and their experience can teach others.
What do growth leaders do differently?
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Achieving growth: Putting leadership mindsets and behaviors into action
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Growth requires the right mix of outlook, strategy, and capabilities. Top leaders achieve their goals by turning five mindsets into action.
Foster an inclusive and sustainable growth mindset & set bold, actionable ambitions to guide your growth, championed by internal leadership, board, and investors
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Courageous growth: Six strategies for continuous growth outperformance
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Fewer than one in four companies outpace their industry peers on revenue and profit growth. New McKinsey research reveals the...
Article - McKinsey Quarterly
Staying ahead: How the best CEOs continually improve performance
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After the heady first years in the job, CEOs must sustain momentum and high performance. Here are four ways to avoid complacency...
Podcast
Retail growth: The big sprint towards customer obsession
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What does purposeful growth look like in the retail sector? Two former Nike executives share the company’s secret formula...
Podcast
Driving growth while decarbonizing: A conversation with E.ON’s Patrick Lammers
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The COO of customer solutions for one of Europe’s leading energy providers explains how he fosters growth during a historic,...
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Choosing to grow: The leader’s blueprint
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Driving sustainable, inclusive growth requires the right mindset, strategy, and capabilities. Here are some steps that could...
Book - Featured Insights
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...
Article - McKinsey Quarterly
Our future lives and livelihoods: Sustainable and inclusive and growing
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Growth for all, growth for good. Here, we offer a proposal for business, government, and society leaders.
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Are you a growth leader? The seven beliefs and behaviors that growth leaders share
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A new survey highlights what separates growth leaders from the pack.
Article - McKinsey Quarterly
Achieve excellence in today’s business, adapting to meet shifting customer needs
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AI-powered marketing and sales reach new heights with generative AI
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AI technology has revolutionized marketing and sales; now, generative AI promises to disrupt the way B2B and B2C players think...
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Experience-led growth: A new way to create value
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A strategy focused on improving the experience of existing customers can deliver breakthrough growth for incumbent companies—often...
Boost growth by expanding into adjacent industries, segments, & geographies
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Committed innovators: How masters of essentials outperform
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New research shows that innovation leaders are rapidly ascending beyond their peers by comprehensively committing themselves...
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Igniting your next growth business
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Growth outperformers prioritize expansion into business areas where they have a ‘natural ownership’ advantage.
Make bets and build new businesses beyond the core to ignite growth
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2021 global report: The state of new-business building
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Business leaders predict that by 2026, half of their revenues will come from products, services, or businesses that haven’t yet...
Article - McKinsey Quarterly
The eight essentials of innovation
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Strategic and organizational factors are what separate successful big-company innovators from the rest of the field.
Article - McKinsey Quarterly
Building the organizational muscle to regularly identify, acquire, and integrate acquisitions to continually enable and accelerate growth
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A blueprint for M&A success
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Programmatic M&A can help companies build resiliency, but this approach to deal making requires a solid game plan—one that will guide proactive deal sourcing and opportunistic deal evaluation.
Article - McKinsey Quarterly
Creating the organizational agility to enable the business to effectively respond to timely headwinds and tailwinds
Article - McKinsey Quarterly
Navigating inflation: A new playbook for CEOs
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Few chief executives have faced the challenge of leading a company through an inflationary spike like today’s. Lessons...
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Why the post-COVID-19 economic recovery can’t be about ‘growth at all costs’
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The pandemic spurred rapid changes in how consumers and companies behave. How can this new moment create an opportunity for sustainable...
Article - Fortune
7 questions can help CEOs set the stage for sustainable and inclusive growth
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As the world stands at the start of 2022, consider...
Discussion Paper - MGI Research
Getting tangible about intangibles: The future of growth and productivity?
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Companies that master the deployment of intangibles investment will be well positioned to outperform their peers.
Interactive - McKinsey Quarterly
Leaders
Michael Birshan
Senior PartnerLondon
Global coleader of our Strategy & Corporate Finance Practice, partnering with bold and determined leaders to set strategy, transform...
Biljana Cvetanovski
PartnerLondon
Advises consumer-facing clients on marketing strategy and growth with deep expertise in how to deliver sustainable growth through...
Rebecca Doherty
PartnerBay Area
Counsels executives on strategies for growth, working with companies to implement growth transformations and M&A
Tjark Freundt
Senior PartnerHamburg
Leads McKinsey’s Growth, Marketing & Sales Practice in Europe and helps organizations achieve sustainable, inclusive growth and...
Greg Kelly
Senior PartnerAtlanta
Leads McKinsey’s Growth, Marketing & Sales Practice globally and drives transformational growth for consumer and retail companies...
Erik Roth
Senior PartnerConnecticut – Darien
A leading thinker and adviser on innovation-led growth, R&D, and marketing strategy
Ishaan Seth
Senior PartnerNew York
Co-leads McKinsey’s Global Banking & Securities Practice and our work in North America. Ishaan works with clients across financial...
Jill Zucker
Senior PartnerNew York
Brings a unique perspective to help clients anticipate the changing needs of consumers in financial services and adjacent markets...