Plus, why strategy is a team sport
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| | | Monthly Highlights, November 2026 | | |
| AI is accelerating strategic analysis, but faster insights don’t necessarily lead to better decisions. Leaders still need time to challenge assumptions, build alignment, and take accountability. When analysis outpaces judgment, the risks grow. In our featured story, Alex D’Amico, Bruce Delteil, Laura LaBerge, and Matt Banholzer explore where AI adds the most value, where human judgment remains essential, and how organizations can effectively integrate the two.
Other highlights include the following topics:
| | | | | how Team Visma | Lease a Bike used real-time AI race intelligence to help coaches make faster, better-informed decisions | | | | | | | why strategy is a team sport and the six roles only the CEO can play | | | | | | | navigating geopolitical shifts to capture new growth opportunities | | | | | | | how AI operating systems could reshape enterprise management | | | | |
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| | | | | Analysis now runs on AI time, but judgment still runs on human time. Three moves can help turn AI’s speed into better strategy decisions. | | Make better strategy decisions  | | | | | |
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| | | | | Team Visma | Lease a Bike is working with QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey, to reshape how coaches and strategists plan, analyze scenarios, and respond as races develop.
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| | |  | | | | | | | | As the relationship between consumer-packaged-goods companies and retailers becomes more complex, agentic AI can recapture lost sales. But are leaders ready to harness the technology’s power?
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| | | | | Leading companies are tracking six emerging patterns of geopolitical change and realigning their businesses to achieve resilience, seize growth, and build competitive advantage.
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| | | | | | | | | An AI operating system can become an enterprise’s “second brain,” but only if CEOs rethink how management itself evolves.
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| | | | | | | | | Customer experience is a competitive imperative for medtechs. To create a durable advantage, it must be designed into products from day one, not added as a post-sale service.
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| | | | | Shapers and Founders: The Untold Stories of Asia’s Extraordinary Owner-CEOs, written by a team of McKinsey experts, reveals the leadership strategies behind Asia’s highest-performing entrepreneur-led companies. Drawing on rigorous empirical research, hundreds of hours of interviews, and deep personal relationships built over decades of advisory work, the authors distill the distinctive leadership playbook that has powered Asia’s rise. | | What sets these leaders apart | | | |
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| | | | | | | | Separating people-leadership tasks from day-to-day business leadership can help organizations strike a better balance between centralization and decentralization, reduce complexity, and embrace agility. Read our 2019 classic “The helix organization” to learn more.
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