Latest insights for the weekend
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| | Brought to you by Alex Panas, global leader of industries, & Becca Coggins, global leader of functional practices and growth platforms
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| | | | Spend the weekend exploring insightful reads on the CEO’s pivotal role in building new businesses, the rise of the agent manager, and more.
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| | CEOs are the difference between new businesses that stall and those that scale. Daniel Aminetzah, Jorge Grieve, and Paul Jenkins explain why building new businesses must become a core strategic priority—and the four leadership choices that matter most. | | | |
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| | What happens when AI agents become part of the workforce? Julie Goran explores why managers are becoming “agent managers,” how organizations are being redesigned around AI, and what the ideas from Rewired, McKinsey’s book on digital and AI transformation, mean in practice. | | | |
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| | As CEO of Blue Star Families, the largest US organization supporting military and veteran families, Kathy Roth-Douquet has learned that resilient leadership starts with trust. In a conversation with McKinsey’s Yocheved Rabhan, she explains, “Trust is at the basis of what we do, because once you have trusted relationships, then everything else can flow.” | | | |
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| | How can industrial AI transform manufacturing? Working with McKinsey, SOCAR Carbamide, a fertilizer plant in Azerbaijan, used AI to modernize its operations, boost productivity, and create a model for broader industrial impact—earning global recognition as a World Economic Forum Digital Lighthouse. | | | |
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| | | | | Tech investment alone won’t deliver a competitive edge. Organizations need systems that strengthen both brain health and AI-era skills so people can keep up with rising cognitive demands. | | Why brain capital is a competitive advantage  | | | |
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| | | | | Several asset classes grew further out of balance with the economy, raising the possibility of corrections through inflation, asset valuation losses, or, optimally, productivity. | | Explore the report | | | |
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| | | —Edited by Nadia Wynter, editor, Washington, DC
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| | | | | Explore McKinsey’s annual book recommendations—a curated collection of nearly 100 thought-provoking titles to inspire fresh ideas and new perspectives. | | Browse the collection | | | |
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