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Monthly Highlights, January 2021
With a tumultuous 2020 behind us, the year ahead could be one of transition, as efforts to control the COVID-19 pandemic continue. Below is a selection of our top reads on the crisis response and what lies ahead in 2021. Explore our full collection, The Next Normal: How companies and leaders can reset for growth beyond coronavirus, for even more.
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The next normal arrives: Trends that will define 2021—and beyond
The next normal arrives: Trends that will define 2021—and beyond
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the world, and its effects will last. Here are some factors that business leaders should keep in mind as they prepare for the next normal.
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 This way out: How leading companies chart a full-potential COVID-Exit
This way out: How leading companies chart a full-potential COVID-Exit
Half measures and incrementalism won’t work when your company emerges from a crisis. Here’s how leading organizations are thinking about holistic transformation to go all in.
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THIS MONTH’S HIGHLIGHTS
Purpose, not platitudes: A personal challenge for top executives
Purpose, not platitudes: A personal challenge for top executives
To harness the power of corporate purpose, CEOs and other senior executives must pressure-test that purpose with their teams, employees—and themselves. Start the dialogue
COVID-19 vaccines meet 100 million uncertain Americans
COVID-19 vaccines meet 100 million uncertain Americans
More than 100 million Americans are uncertain about vaccination. Public- and private-sector leaders can take action to support adoption, including incremental investment in the range of $10 billion. 4 shifts that help
The disaster you could have stopped: Preparing for extraordinary risks
The disaster you could have stopped: Preparing for extraordinary risks
Ignoring high-consequence, low-likelihood risks can be damaging to an organization, but preparing for everything is impossibly costly. Take action
 
Mental health in the workplace: The coming revolution
Mental health in the workplace: The coming revolution
Employees are in need and are demanding better coverage. Here’s how leading companies get mental health coverage right. 6 actions that help
COVID-19 and learning loss—disparities grow and students need help
COVID-19 and learning loss—disparities grow and students need help
The pandemic has set back learning for all students, but especially for students of color. Evidence-based acceleration approaches can help. Step up
A test of resilience: McKinsey Global Banking Annual Review 2020
McKinsey’s Global Banking Annual Review
As the COVID-19 pandemic rolls on, banks must prepare for a long winter. Read the full report
 
 
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COVID-19 has revived the social contract in advanced economies—for now. What will stick once the crisis abates?
The future of sustainable fashion
Why business building is the new priority for growth
How European shoppers will buy groceries in the next normal
Derisking digital and analytics transformations
The future of healthcare: Value creation through next-generation business models
 
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YEAR IN REVIEW: OUR TOP INSIGHTS IN 2020

In a year filled with crises and heroic responses, McKinsey produced a record stream of articles, reports, and new features to help the world come to grips with what was happening. Here are some of our top insights of 2020.

2020 year in review: Highlights from our publishing
2020 year in review: Highlights from our publishing
Twelve highlights from the McKinsey Global Institute’s 2020 research
Twelve highlights from the McKinsey Global Institute’s 2020 research
The best of McKinsey’s 2020 insights, according to our Gen Z colleagues
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Agility: It rhymes with stability
Many executives believe that only small companies can be fast and flexible and that only large ones can be stable. They are terribly wrong—as we’ve seen during the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced many traditional players to embrace agile ways of working almost overnight. To learn how some companies balance the tension between agility and stability with an eye to three core areas, read our 2015 classic “Agility: It rhymes with stability.”
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— Curated by Eleni Kostopoulos, a manager of digital publishing in McKinsey Global Publishing, based in New York
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