What does leadership look like in an era where turbulence and disruption are the norm? It’s not the model we’re used to. In this month’s first featured story from the McKinsey Quarterly, Aaron De Smet, Arne Gast, Johanne Lavoie, and Michael Lurie dive into the transition from an era of individual leaders to an era of networked leadership teams that steer the organization, as well as the five fundamental evolutionary shifts leaders are called to make in their mindsets and ways of working. In our second featured story from the Quarterly, Blair Epstein, Caitlin Hewes, and Scott Keller define what it means to operate as one firm—that is, hearing “we, us, and our” language versus “me, mine, and theirs,” and fostering one brand identity and a “firm way” of doing things—and discuss what it takes to overcome entrenched identities and power dynamics to successfully shift to a one-firm operating model. Other highlights in this month’s issue include the following topics:
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