February Highlights: The business case for workplace diversity--and how to accelerate change

Monthly Highlights | February 2018

Editor’s choice

Companies are seeing their diversity and inclusion efforts pay off in terms of financial performance, but much more work is needed to drive diversification. These added efforts should include a focus on fighting fatigue in pursuing gender equality in the workplace:

Delivering through diversity

Our latest research reinforces the link between diversity and company financial performance—and suggests how organizations can craft better inclusion strategies for a competitive edge.

The four imperatives →

How companies can guard against gender fatigue

Show you are serious about basics such as mentoring and work–life flexibility—then hold yourself accountable.

Maintain momentum →

This month’s highlights

Why digital strategies fail

Most digital strategies don’t reflect how digital is changing economic fundamentals, industry dynamics, or what it means to compete. Companies should watch out for five pitfalls. more →

Retraining and reskilling workers in the age of automation

Retraining workers in the age of automation

Executives increasingly see investing in retraining and “upskilling” existing workers as an urgent business priority on which companies, not governments, must lead. more →

Reflections from Davos 2018

McKinsey Global Managing Partner Dominic Barton recounts the major themes discussed at Davos 2018—including growth, corporate transformation, and power politics. more →

Decision making in your organization

At the root of any good decision is categorizing what kind of decision needs to be made, by whom, and how quickly. more →

What AI can and can’t do (yet) for your business

Artificial intelligence is a moving target. Here’s how to take better aim. more →

Looking behind the numbers for US stock indexes

Record-high equity markets are prompting worries that stocks are overpriced. But a closer look finds that the market’s current value may not be so extreme. more →

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Five Fifty: Rudeness on the rise

The five trademarks of agile organizations

Competing in a world of digital ecosystems

Putting citizens first: How Latin American cities can be smart

McKinsey Classics

The resource revolution

A 2012 McKinsey report made the case for mobilizing for a revolution to counteract the global strain on natural resources brought on by the rise of millions more middle-class consumers.

Learn more about the resource revolution →

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