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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

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

Author Talks: What separates the best CEOs from the rest?
– Three McKinsey senior partners looked across more than 20 years’ worth of data on 7,800 CEOs from 3,500 public companies... across 70 countries and 24 industries to identify the mindsets that helped top chief executives deliver extraordinary impact.
Collection

We still know what you’re reading this summer
McKinsey’s annual reading list is back for 2021.
Article - McKinsey Quarterly

Understanding the leader’s ‘identity mindtrap’: Personal growth for the C-suite
– If you’re shackled to who you are now, you can’t recognize—or reach for—who you might become next.
Article

A board interview guide for prospective CEOs
– Working through these questions as they prepare to take the top job can help executives clarify their thinking.
Article - McKinsey Quarterly

How functional leaders become CEOs
– Limited operational experience is not necessarily a barrier to the top job. Here’s what CFOs and others must do to jump... to the next level.
Survey

Ascending to the C-suite
– A new McKinsey survey finds that executives who move effectively into the C-suite are communicating priorities, valuing their... teams, spending time on culture, and understanding their unique leadership role.
Article - McKinsey Quarterly

Decoding leadership: What really matters
– New research suggests that the secret to developing effective leaders is to encourage four types of behavior.
Article - McKinsey Quarterly

Lead at your best
– Five simple exercises can help you recognize, and start to shift, the mind-sets that limit your potential as a leader.
Article - McKinsey Quarterly

A guide for the CEO-elect
– The days, weeks, or months between taking the job and assuming power are precious. Put them to good use.

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