McKinsey on Books

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.

Now in its eighth edition, this acclaimed volume continues to help corporate executives, bankers, students and other financial professionals around the world gain a deep understanding of valuation and help their companies create and maximize economic value.

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.

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

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.

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.

From McKinsey & Company, an insight-packed, revelatory look at how the best CEOs do their jobs based on extensive interviews with today’s most successful corporate leaders—including chiefs at Netflix, JPMorgan Chase, General Motors, and Sony. #CEOExcellenceBook

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.

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 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.

Venkat Atluri and Miklós Dietz

2022– The Ecosystem Economy offers a compelling new take on how the global economy is being fundamentally transformed. Prepare your organization for a competitive new landscape.

Tim Koller, Marc Goedhart, David Wessels

2020 - 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.

Charles Conn and Robert McLean

2019 – This book outlines a seven-step, systematic approach to creative problem solving that will work in any field or industry, helping to transform the way you approach problems and take you to the next level of business and personal success.

Dennis Carey, Brian Dumaine, Michael Useem, and Rodney Zemmel

2018 – Inspired by an annual off-the-record gathering of chief executives organized by the authors, Go Long reveals how some of the world’s most prominent business leaders resisted short-term pressures to successfully manage their organizations for the long term.

Chris Bradley, Martin Hirt, and Sven Smit

2018 – Strategy Beyond the Hockey Stick is about unlocking big moves because that’s what it takes to beat the odds in business. Anchored in empirical evidence from 1000s of companies, it reveals what really matters and what doesn’t for exceptional performance.

Richard Dobbs, James Manyika, and Jonathan Woetzel

2015 – The world not only feels different. The data tell us it is different. This book is a timely and important analysis of how we need to reset our intuition as a result of four forces colliding and transforming the global economy.

Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman

2006 – Based on a study of 43 of America’s best-run companies from a diverse array of business sectors, this book describes eight basic principles of management that made these organizations successful.

Scott Keller and Bill Schaninger

2019 – Beyond Performance 2.0 more than doubles your odds of successfully leading significant, sustainable change by applying equal levels of insight and rigor to the “hard” and “soft” elements that matter.

Claudio Feser, Michael Rennie, and Nicolai Chen Nielsen

2018 – Leadership at Scale provides leaders with the systematic and fact-based leadership development approach they need to unlock organizational performance in today’s fast-paced business environment.

Scott Keller and Mary Meaney

2017 – Leading Organizations identifies the most challenging organizational issues leaders face, providing the hard facts, big ideas, and practical “how to” steps to address those issues.

Claudio Feser

2016 – Inspired people have the energy and persistence needed to achieve extraordinary results and transform organizations. This book shows what it takes to win the minds and hearts of the people you lead.

John Browne, Robin Nuttall, and Tommy Stadlen

2016 – Drawing on the experience of John Browne, the former CEO of BP, and the insight of two McKinsey experts, this book articulates and explores the recurring rift between big business and society, offering a practical manifesto for reconciliation.

Joanna Barsh and Johanne Lavoie

2014 – By studying the stories of leaders and working with Fortune 100 companies, Joanna Barsh and Johanne Lavoie explore why some talented people rise to the top and create positive and sustained impact, while others stop short of their full leadership potential.

Joanna Barsh, Susie Cranston Hamilton, and Geoffrey Lewis

2011 – This book presents unique ideas about successful leadership. Personal stories and related insights show how success results from combining the five elements of centered leadership: meaning, framing, connecting, engaging, and energizing.

Lowell Bryan and Claudia Joyce

2007 – By tapping into employees’ talents, knowledge, and skills, you can earn tens of thousands of additional dollars per employee, and manage the barriers that prevent real achievements. This can only be done through organizational design and redesign.

Arun Arora, Peter Dahlstrom, Klemens Hjartar, and Florian Wunderlich

2020 – Today’s technology demands lightning-fast changes. But speed without purpose is not progress. McKinsey leaders cut through the hype to provide an inside look into what digital winners do best: set direction, learn, and adapt faster than anyone else.

Jürgen Meffert and Anand Swaminathan

2017 – Value in the next phase of the digital era will go to those companies that don’t just try digital but also scale it. This book examines what it takes to break through the gravitational pull of legacy organizations and capture the full value of digital.

James M. Kaplan, Tucker Bailey, Derek O’Halloran, Alan Marcus, and Chris Rezek

2015 – Founded upon proprietary research, client experience, and interviews with over 200 executives, regulators, and security experts, this text arms your company against devastating online security breaches.

Ram Charan, Dominic Barton, and Dennis Carey

2018 – Written for CEOs and leaders across the organization, Talent Wins provides a much-needed framework for transforming how companies acquire, manage, and deploy talent—for today’s agile, digital, analytical, technologically driven strategic environment.

Eileen Rogers and Nick van Dam

2018 – The human brain is wired to resist change. In this book, leadership experts Eileen Rogers and Nick van Dam share insights and methods to making the transition to a more consultative, “emotionally intelligent” approach to leading change.

Caroline Webb

2016 – In How to Have a Good Day, economist and former McKinsey partner Caroline Webb shows readers how to use recent findings from behavioral economics, psychology, and neuroscience to transform our approach to everyday working life.

Neel Doshi and Lindsay McGregor

2015 – Primed to Perform explains the counter-intuitive science behind great cultures, building on over a century of academic thinking.

Max Landsberg

1996 – To get the most out of individual employees, companies and managers are turning to coaching as a means of enhancing performance. This practical guide shows how to develop the necessary habits and skills needed to become a good coach.