McKinsey Quarterly: Digital Edition

60th birthday edition: Leadership

Since 1964, McKinsey Quarterly has delivered our most distinctive, crosscutting insights. We’re delighted to mark its 60th birthday with a yearlong celebration featuring special issues, interactive experiences, and bonus compilations.

We’re dedicating each issue in this commemorative year to a major force shaping the future of business. The latest is “The future of leadership,” focused on how leaders can inspire their teams and organizations to thrive amid today’s disruptions. Don’t miss our first issue, on technology—and be sure to explore this page for related interactive features and bonus issues of Quarterly classics formerly available only in print.

Enjoy these benefits and more with a free McKinsey Quarterly membership, which includes email alerts for new issues.

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This membership also includes exclusive access to all past digital Quarterly issues and downloads of our 100 most important reports in the McKinsey Insights Store. And the Quarterly’s web-based Re:think essays and Five-Fifty briefings will continue to be available to you as always.

We hope you enjoy this experience and welcome your feedback at newideas@mckinsey.com.

The future of the office

A major upheaval reduced demand for office space on a global scale. This interactive presentation visualizes the changes in three major cities and proposes what’s needed for the new generation of spaces.
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McKinsey Quarterly Classics special issue on leadership

This bonus collection of 15 classic McKinsey Quarterly articles accompanies “The future of leadership,” the second of four issues celebrating the Quarterly’s 60th birthday. These timeless insights—previously only available in archival print issues—trace how leadership ideas and attitudes have evolved over the past six decades.
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60th birthday edition: Technology

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The future of technology
In this special technology issue—the first in the Quarterly’s 60th birthday celebration—we focus on the technologies of the future and what it will take to implement them successfully.
A striking monolithic sculpture made of polished steel stands on a cylindrical platform, featuring two intertwined letterforms: the number 6 and the letter Q. Together, they symbolize the 60th anniversary of McKinsey Quarterly. The Q creatively doubles as the zero in “60.”
Sixty years of innovation: Key moments in business technology
From semiconductors to cell phones to generative AI, here are 25 breakthroughs that changed business forever.
Book cover of McKinsey Quarterly Classics special issue on Technology
McKinsey Quarterly Classics special issue on technology
Read how discussions of technology in business have evolved—and how much they’ve stayed the same—over the past six decades in this bonus collection of 18 articles.