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2 months ago | 
mckinsey.com | Aaron De Smet |Brooke Weddle |Bryan Hancock
The world of work is still in flux as many companies continue to follow hybrid and work-from-home models. At the same time, Fortune 500 companies such as Amazon, JP Morgan Chase, and Nike moved to mandated in-office policies of at least four days a week in 2024, and more organizations, as well as much of the US federal workforce, are following suit this year. Which working model is best for organizational performance?
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
mckinsey.com | Jacqueline Brassey |Aaron De Smet |Dana Maor
Unexpected crises, volatility, and a generally accelerated pace of change have increasingly become the norm. But it doesn’t feel normal. For many, it feels stressful and exhausting.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
mckinsey.com | Aaron De Smet |Arne Gast |Drew Goldstein
The latest update of McKinsey’s Organizational Health Index offers some twists and surprises for leaders. See if you can identify the crucial drivers of a healthy organization. Organizational health is crucial to long-term performance, yet it is a moving target. For more than 20 years, McKinsey’s Organizational Health Index (OHI) has examined the practices and outcomes that lead to better health (exhibit).
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
mckinsey.com | Aaron De Smet |Arne Gast |Drew Goldstein
The latest update of McKinsey’s Organizational Health Index offers some twists and surprises for leaders. See if you can identify the crucial markers of a healthy organization. Organizational health is crucial to long-term performance, yet it is a moving target. For more than 20 years, McKinsey’s Organizational Health Index (OHI) has examined the practices and outcomes that lead to better health (exhibit).
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
mckinsey.com | Aaron De Smet |Gemma DAuria |Liesje Meijknecht |Maitham Albaharna
Today, more than ever, cracking the code of team effectiveness is critical to organizational success. At most companies, teams generate value as a primary unit of performance. They are now more autonomous and empowered than in traditional organizational models, while also being part of a dynamic and collaborative structure across a team ecosystem.
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
mckinsey.com | Aaron De Smet |Arne Gast |Drew Goldstein |Richard Steele
Organizational health is a moving target. Leaders at today’s healthiest organizations don’t run them the same way that the C-suite did in 2003, when McKinsey launched the Organizational Health Index (OHI). We created the index to help organizations gain vital insights into whether they have the right practices in place to drive sustained performance.
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Sep 19, 2023 | 
msn.com | Jacqueline Brassey |Aaron De Smet
We’ve all learned to be resilient. The pandemic taught us that if nothing else. We’ve learned to get back up after a setback, to keep pressing forward, put in the time, do the work, and carry on. That’s no longer enough. Think back to a couple of weeks before your last vacation. You were trying to wrap up a million projects at work before heading out while juggling shopping, travel plans, and perhaps even feeling sick. Your attention was divided as you bounced from task to task.
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Sep 19, 2023 | 
fortune.com | Jacqueline Brassey |Aaron De Smet
We’ve all learned to be resilient. The pandemic taught us that if nothing else. We’ve learned to get back up after a setback, to keep pressing forward, put in the time, do the work, and carry on. That’s no longer enough. Think back to a couple of weeks before your last vacation. You were trying to wrap up a million projects at work before heading out while juggling shopping, travel plans, and perhaps even feeling sick. Your attention was divided as you bounced from task to task.
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Sep 10, 2023 | 
mckinsey.com | Aaron De Smet |Marino Mugayar-Baldocchi |Angelika Reich |Bill Schaninger
The pandemic has forced major changes in how, when, and where people work. It has also bedeviled employers. Due in part to new hybrid and remote-working models, companies are struggling to find objective ways to gauge employee effectiveness-a critical challenge as labor costs have increased and worker productivity has declined.
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May 3, 2023 | 
mckinsey.com | Aaron De Smet |Arne Gast |Johanne Lavoie |Michael Lurie
We are living through an era of unprecedented challenges and opportunities. The climate crisis, global health challenges, and changes in social values are upending individual priorities. Globalization and geopolitics are shifting the world’s tectonic plates. How we live and work is being constantly reinvented by advances in technology and the emergence of generations who were “born digital.”How should leaders navigate this moment?
