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Taking aim with talent
– Asks what it takes to lead a people-first organization, shows how senior executives can get more comfortable with complexity, and explores digital tools to link top talent with a company’s strategic opportunities.

2018 Issues

Games in the strategy room
– Shows how companies can unlock big strategic moves to boost their odds of success, why competing in the digital age demands an... agile organization, and how to navigate advances in artificial intelligence.

2017 Issues

Artificial intelligence takes shape
– Examines AI-driven automation and how it will transform the economy, discusses why lifelong learning should be a corporate priority,... and lays out the health imperative for organizations.

Competing in a world of sectors without borders
– Explores how digitization will shape global industries, discusses how to make better decisions, provides an action plan for workplace... automation, and suggests ways for companies to improve HR.

Global forces
– Connects the dots among global trends that are reshaping your strategic context, offers advice for CEOs on how to become more... successful leaders, and explores three cases of digital reinvention.

Reinventing the core
– Lays out why companies should seize new opportunities in light of digitization, discusses fresh research on consumer decision... journeys, and examines firms making strides on board-level gender diversity.

2016 issues

Does your data have a purpose?
– Explores how executives can ensure they’re putting their data to good use, the future of China’s business environment,... the art of transforming organizations, and why leadership requires reason and emotion.

Elevating the customer experience
– Includes the CEO’s guide to customer experience, new research on the technical feasibility of automating jobs, and an incumbent’s... guide to digital disruption.

Digital strategy: The economics of disruption
– Examines the economic essentials of digital strategy, Pixar’s approach to continuous innovation, the future of performance management,... and China’s e-commerce landscape.

Organizing for the future
– Explores the implications of workplace automation, the power of sleep and meditation, Ericsson’s recent HR transformation,... and more.

2015 issues

Agility
– Explores the paradox of combining speed and stability to achieve agility. Also, describes how Chinese leaders are navigating the... country’s shifting economic environment.

Raise your Digital Quotient
– Introduces McKinsey’s metric for a company’s digital maturity: the Digital Quotient. Also examines a new approach... to business-model innovation, simple rules for breakthrough ideas, and a guide to machine learning.

Thriving at scale
– Offers strategies to help companies operate successfully at scale in areas including innovation, R&D, and human resources.... Also explores technology’s role in building efficient global operations and increasing productivity across organizational lines.

Marketing and sales: New & improved
– The five elements of success in marketing’s new golden age, including interviews with the chief marketers of Daimler and Google.... Also, how B2B customers make decisions now, a virtuous cycle for top-line growth, and the power of emerging advanced analytics for HR.

2014 issues

Competing on the digital edge
– Explores how digitization is transforming everything from the flow of goods, services, and talent to the auto industry to China’s... corporations. Also examines ongoing gender-equality efforts around the world, as well as the four essential behaviors of successful leaders.

Management: The next 50 years
– Our 50th anniversary edition examines the future of management, including long-term capitalism, leadership in an era of machine... learning, next frontiers for strategists, and global productivity.

Resource revolution: Gathering force
– Explores how technological advances are revolutionizing resource productivity, the future of lean, why leaders of organizational... change must examine their own behavior, how to manage shareholder activists, and the rising risk of cyberattacks.

Shaping the future of manufacturing
– Examines the future of manufacturing, how senior executives should spread best practices, why leadership-development programs... fail, taking data analytics to the next level, and Starbucks’ Indian expansion.

2013 issues

Strategy to beat the odds
– Examines how to make wise strategic choices, mobilize the C-suite to take advantage of big data, use social technologies to engage... employees and transform organizations, and build vibrant communities with help from companies.

China’s next chapter
– The next chapter in China’s economic evolution, from the emergence of the middle class to greater product innovation and a more... sophisticated manufacturing sector. Also, the investment environment and the talent the country needs to forge ahead.

On-demand marketing
– How emerging technologies are radically personalizing the consumer experience. Also, Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg, how companies... can develop a big-data plan, the benefits of encouraging giving within organizations, and a new approach to solving problems.

Putting time to work
– Learn the art of time management and how it can drive personal and professional success. Also, how boards and senior-management... teams can engage with each other more effectively; making work more meaningful; and social-media skills leaders need.

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