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• Represent: A leader’s guide to women’s experiences at work

  Pipeline dreams ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌   ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌   ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌   ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌   ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌   ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌   ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌   ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌   ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ 

  Share this email Share this email on LinkedIn   Share this email on Twitter   Share this email on Facebook   ESSENTIALS FOR LEADERS AND THOSE THEY LEAD Brought to you by Liz Hilton Segel, chief client officer and managing partner, global industry practices, & Homayoun Hatami, managing partner, global client capabilities As the sun sets on the month of March—also known as Women’s History Month—it’s an opportune time to reflect on women’s contributions at work. Women are an undeniable force in the modern workplace, as the business case for gender-diverse leadership teams grows ever stronger. After pandemic-fueled burnout prompted many working mothers to leave the labor force altogether, women’s participation is now hitting all-time highs. While we know that women are just as eager to advance in their careers as men, they remain vastly underrepresented at higher levels of the organization. This week, we upend misconceptions about women at work and suggest ways in which leaders can really move the needle. AN IDEA Keep the pressure on For nearly a decade, McKinsey’s Women in the Workplace research has shed light on the contradictions, challenges, and promise of being a woman in the corporate world. According to senior partners Alexis Krivkovich and Lareina Yee, the latest results help demystify four myths about women at work: that women feel less ambitious than they did before the pandemic (they aren’t), that only women care about flexible working conditions (men do, too), and that microaggressions don’t meaningfully affect women (they do). The fourth myth? Krivkovich and Yee point to the leadership pipeline. Rather than the glass ceiling, “the biggest inequity in advancement remains the broken rung—the very first step up into a manager position,” Krivkovich says. “The reason we only have 28 percent women in the C-suite is because we aren’t building that leadership path at the very beginning of [women’s] careers, to create a talent pool that would be available and ready for those opportunities when they open up.” To course correct, they recommend companies approach gender representation as they would any other business problem: dig into the data, run postmortems on who’s getting promoted, and ask tough questions about the structural biases that may be standing in women’s way. A BIG NUMBER 9 That’s the average number of years a woman spends in poor health during her lifetime. According to McKinsey Health Institute research from senior partners Kweilin Ellingrud and Lucy Pérez and their colleagues, women are most likely to be affected by a sex-specific health condition in their working years. With the average person spending one-third of their life at work, improving employee health is critical to improving global health, both as a moral imperative and a precondition for economic prosperity. What’s at stake in addressing the health gap between women and men? Healthier women are more likely to participate in the workforce, thus more likely to improve outcomes for themselves, their families, and the economy, which stands to gain at least $1 trillion of global economic opportunity by 2040—the equivalent of 137 million women in full-time jobs—if the gap is closed. A QUOTE “If you need something, please ask for it. This opens discussions and can open doors.” That’s Barbara Karuth-Zelle, COO of Allianz, on the advice she gives to both women and men for achieving gender parity at work. Nearly half of the members of Allianz’s management panel are women, including Karuth-Zelle, but she says the European insurer also focuses on the earlier stages of its talent pipeline. “To give more women a level playing field for wherever they want to go in their careers, we are asking more questions about what they need, allowing more flexible work models, and rethinking our talent models and leadership formats.” A SPOTLIGHT INTERVIEW If careers are a journey, then Grace Puma wants women to set their own course from the start. In her new book, the former PepsiCo executive vice president and COO explains the power of  “a career-forward” mindset that helps women approach their career-related thinking with intentionality, ownership, and a long-term view. Along the way, working women are likely to encounter biases that are beyond their control. But when it comes to their advancement, women are the ultimate decision makers of which role, or which company, is best for them. “Whether you stay or go is rooted in the question of what’s most important,” Puma says. “Are you growing? Are you building capabilities that align with your aspirations? Consider the changes objectively.” THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS For all our focus on career paths, it’s important to remember that not everyone’s professional trajectory follows a straight line—especially in a time of so much disruption. Rather than concentrating on a single career ladder to climb, ask yourself what you want to be known for at work, instead of what your next job title should be, and encourage your team to do the same. Focusing on the things you like doing at work, and the things that give you meaning, can lead to more happiness, both in and out of your role. Lead by fixing the broken rung. – Edited by Daniella Seiler, executive editor, Washington, DC Follow our thinking Share these insights Did you enjoy this newsletter? Forward it to colleagues and friends so they can subscribe too. Was this issue forwarded to you? Sign up for it and sample our 40+ other free email subscriptions here. This email contains information about McKinsey’s research, insights, services, or events. By opening our emails or clicking on links, you agree to our use of cookies and web tracking technology. For more information on how we use and protect your information, please review our privacy policy. You received this email because you subscribed to the Leading Off newsletter. Manage subscriptions | Unsubscribe Copyright © 2024 | McKinsey & Company, 3 World Trade Center, 175 Greenwich Street, New York, NY 10007

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  by "McKinsey Leading Off" <publishing@email.mckinsey.com> - 04:47 - 1 Apr 2024

• Gen AI is accelerating designers’ innovation and productivity

  On Point

  Unleashing creativity ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌   ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌   ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌   ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌   ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌   ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌   ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌   ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌   ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ 

  DELIVERING ACTIONABLE INSIGHTS ON THE DAY’S NEWS As only McKinsey can Brought to you by Liz Hilton Segel, chief client officer and managing partner, global industry practices, & Homayoun Hatami, managing partner, global client capabilities Gen AI shakes up product design In the news • Aesthetic AI. Generative AI (gen AI) is making waves in creative sectors, with interior designers using it to automate tasks, generate ideas, and turn quick sketches into more sophisticated renderings. Designers say gen AI can particularly help with highly specific, tricky tasks such as refining the texture of a material in a rendering. While some designers are enthusiastic about AI’s capabilities, others are more skeptical and use it sparingly. Gen AI tools still have big knowledge gaps when it comes to design—they can’t grasp the scale of a room, for instance, or follow building regulations in their output. [Fast Company] • Chip, chip, hooray! Designing advanced semiconductors has become more laborious and complicated, with intricate chips sometimes taking six months or longer. To address this, chipmakers and researchers have developed AI platforms to automate tasks and speed up the design process. These tools can generate hardware code, verify designs, assist in collaboration, and answer questions about chip design. However, they can’t automate the entire process and require human validation. [WSJ] In product research and design alone, McKinsey estimates gen AI could unlock $60 billion in productivity. On McKinsey.com • Automation brings innovation. Gen AI is a powerful tool that can help industrial designers create innovative products. It has the potential to revolutionize the product design industry by automating many tasks that are done manually, freeing up designers to focus on more creative work. But achieving business value with gen AI in industrial design requires meticulous preparation, McKinsey senior partner Jack Donohew and colleagues explain. Evaluating risks and putting guardrails in place are high on the to-do list. • Humans in the loop. While gen AI can handle a lot, it’s important to remember that it can’t replace human know-how. People still need to be involved to ensure that the final product is manufacturable and meets users’ needs. To use gen AI effectively, companies should focus on doing consumer research, developing effective prompts, refining the technology’s outputs, parsing the best concepts, and making sure to blend human empathy into the mix. Learn how gen AI can boost creativity and productivity in product development, and visit McKinsey Digital for more insights. Unlock gen AI’s potential —Edited by Jana Zabkova, senior editor, New York Was this forwarded to you? Sign up here. Or send us feedback—we’d love to hear from you. Follow our thinking This email contains information about McKinsey's research, insights, services, or events. By opening our emails or clicking on links, you agree to our use of cookies and web tracking technology. For more information on how we use and protect your information, please review our privacy policy. You received this newsletter because you subscribed to the Only McKinsey newsletter, formerly called On Point. Manage subscriptions | Unsubscribe Copyright © 2024 | McKinsey & Company, 3 World Trade Center, 175 Greenwich Street, New York, NY 10007

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  by "Only McKinsey" <publishing@email.mckinsey.com> - 11:06 - 31 Mar 2024

• Top 10 articles this quarter

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  At #1: The trends defining the $1.8 trillion global wellness market in 2024 ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌   ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌   ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌   ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌   ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌   ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌   ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌   ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌   ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ 

  Share this email Share this email on LinkedIn   Share this email on Twitter   Share this email on Facebook   For direct answers to complex questions, check out McKinsey Explainers. Top Ten Newsletter │ First Quarter 2024 Our top ten articles this quarter look at the women’s health gap, unsung digital and AI ideas, and more. At No. 1, McKinsey’s Shaun Callaghan, Anna Pione, Warren Teichner, and coauthors take a deep dive into the results of the latest Future of Wellness survey in “The trends defining the $1.8 trillion global wellness market in 2024.” 1. The trends defining the $1.8 trillion global wellness market in 2024 Our latest Future of Wellness survey finds that consumers are taking greater control over their health—and expect companies to provide effective, science-backed solutions. 7 areas of growth  2. Closing the women’s health gap: A $1 trillion opportunity to improve lives and economies Investments addressing the women’s health gap could add years to life and life to years—and potentially boost the global economy by $1 trillion annually by 2040. Take a holistic approach  3. Ten unsung digital and AI ideas shaping business Keeping your eye on where value comes from is still the name of the game. Rewire for value capture  4. Geopolitics and the geometry of global trade Global trade patterns are reconfiguring. More shifts are likely and businesses need to be aware of the potential trade-offs of different paths ahead. Be prepared for a range of shifts  5. Organizational health is (still) the key to long-term performance McKinsey’s latest findings on organizational health demonstrate that it remains the best predictor of value creation and a sustainable source of competitive advantage in today’s global marketplace. See the results  6. What to expect in US healthcare in 2024 and beyond A new perspective on how technology, transformation efforts, and other changes have affected payers, health systems, healthcare services and technology, and pharmacy services. See what’s ahead  7. Generative AI in the pharmaceutical industry: Moving from hype to reality The technology could offer pharma companies a once-in-a-century opportunity—but only if they learn to scale it and address the industry’s unique challenges. Unlock the transition  8. How to prepare for the CEO role Becoming a high-potential candidate for the top job starts with asking the question: Why do I want to be the CEO? Be authentic  9. Top M&A trends in 2024: Blueprint for success in the next wave of deals Will 2024 launch a bright new era for M&A? Anticipating what could be an inflection point, many dealmakers are preparing for a surge—and new market requirements—in the year ahead. See what’s ahead  10. A generative AI reset: Rewiring to turn potential into value in 2024 The generative AI payoff may only come when companies do deeper organizational surgery on their business. Gain a competitive advantage  Follow our thinking Share these insights Did you enjoy this newsletter? Forward it to colleagues and friends so they can subscribe too. Was this issue forwarded to you? Sign up for it and sample our 40+ other free email subscriptions here. McKinsey Insights - Get our latest thinking on your iPhone, iPad or Android. This email contains information about McKinsey’s research, insights, services, or events. By opening our emails or clicking on links, you agree to our use of cookies and web tracking technology. For more information on how we use and protect your information, please review our privacy policy. You received this email because you are a registered member of the Top Ten Most Popular newsletter. Manage subscriptions | Unsubscribe Copyright © 2024 | McKinsey & Company, 3 World Trade Center, 175 Greenwich Street, New York, NY 10007

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  by "McKinsey Top Ten" <publishing@email.mckinsey.com> - 03:57 - 31 Mar 2024

• The week in charts

  The Week in Charts

  Global cooperation trends, compelling equity stories, and more ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌   ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌   ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌   ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌   ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌   ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌   ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌   ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌   ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ 

  Share this email Share this email on LinkedIn   Share this email on Twitter   Share this email on Facebook   ALL THE WEEK’S DATA THAT’S FIT TO VISUALIZE Our McKinsey Chart of the Day series offers a daily chart that helps explain a changing world—as we strive toward sustainable and inclusive growth. In case you missed them, this week’s graphics explored global cooperation trends, compelling equity stories, healthcare in Latin America, the mobility sector’s use of AI, and energy demands. FEATURED CHART The ties that bind See more This week’s other select charts Get your story straight Digital diagnosis Mobility’s AI future Overpowered Follow our thinking Share these insights Did you enjoy this newsletter? Forward it to colleagues and friends so they can subscribe too. Was this issue forwarded to you? Sign up for it and sample our 40+ other free email subscriptions here. This email contains information about McKinsey's research, insights, services, or events. By opening our emails or clicking on links, you agree to our use of cookies and web tracking technology. For more information on how we use and protect your information, please review our privacy policy. You received this email because you subscribed to The Week in Charts newsletter. Manage subscriptions | Unsubscribe Copyright © 2024 | McKinsey & Company, 3 World Trade Center, 175 Greenwich Street, New York, NY 10007

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  by "McKinsey Week in Charts" <publishing@email.mckinsey.com> - 03:44 - 30 Mar 2024

• What’s the secret to successful leadership?

  Readers & Leaders

  Plus, unlocking the power of technology ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌   ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌   ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌   ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌   ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌   ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌   ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌   ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌   ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ 

  Share this email Share this email on LinkedIn   Share this email on Twitter   Share this email on Facebook   THIS MONTH’S PAGE-TURNERS ON BUSINESS AND BEYOND What distinguishes the best CEOs from the rest? In March 2022, McKinsey senior partners Carolyn Dewar, Scott Keller, and Vikram Malhotra set out to answer that question in CEO Excellence: The Six Mindsets That Distinguish the Best Leaders from the Rest (Scribner/Simon & Schuster, 2022). The book, which examined more than two decades of data on 7,800 CEOs in 70 countries, became an international business bestseller. Recently, the authors chatted with McKinsey Global Publishing leader Raju Narisetti to revisit the mindsets that have helped CEOs and aspiring leaders deliver impact. Check out the first and second installments of this discussion. Read more on the third installment below. In this edition of Readers & Leaders, enhance your leadership skills and learn ways to set the direction of your team. Dewar, Keller, and Malhotra revisit the leadership lessons of the most successful CEOs, and Grace Puma shares how women can shatter the glass ceiling, despite only occupying 28 percent of C-suite positions. Philip Kotler and Giuseppe Stigliano present a new direction to help retailers meet the needs of consumers in the post-digital age, Chris Dixon outlines a vision for a decentralized internet that could inspire a new direction for innovation and growth, and Charles Duhigg explains the role that improved communication plays in relationship building. Read on to find out more about how you can change your approach to leadership and inspire others to align with your vision. STAY TUNED “There’s a body of thinking here that can be a handbook, that’s grounded in facts, that’s grounded in experience, that everyone should feel confident drawing from. Someone reading [CEO Excellence] can get the wisdom from all of those voices in one place.” —Carolyn Dewar, McKinsey senior partner, in the third and final installment of CEO Excellence revisited, coming in April. IN CASE YOU MISSED IT Grace Puma empowers women to create their own career journeys Why do women hold only 28 percent of C-suite positions? A former PepsiCo COO shares how you can put your best foot forward to reverse the trend. Achieve long-term success  Philip Kotler and Giuseppe Stigliano discuss how businesses can adapt to the paradigm shift in retail More than 70 percent of US malls have closed. What does that mean for the future of shopping? Philip Kotler, “the father of modern marketing,” and Giuseppe Stigliano discuss retail’s “perfect storm.” Get ready for the next chapter  Chris Dixon highlights the benefits of reshaping the internet to better serve its stakeholders Tired of running into paywalls, walled-off spaces and the broken promise of an open internet? Hunch cofounder Chris Dixon shares why a return to the decentralized internet is key to protecting businesses and consumers. Reshape the future  TURN BACK THE PAGE Are you looking to fine-tune your leadership skills? Get started with these Author Talks interviews: 1. IBM’s Ginni Rometty on leading with ‘good power’ 2. Ron Shaich shares leadership lessons on what matters most and why 3. How people-first leadership can make the sky the limit 4. Moshik Temkin on power, purpose, and the public good As Women’s History Month comes to a close, read these interviews with women leaders: 1. Suzanne Heywood rides the waves of resilience 2. Dr. Fei-Fei Li sees ‘worlds’ of possibilities in a multidisciplinary approach to AI 3. Lisa Sun explains why confidence is your superpower 4. Netta Jenkins asks, ‘Is there a seat at the table?’ BUSINESS BESTSELLERS TOP 8 Need more books to add to your reading list? Explore February’s business bestsellers, prepared exclusively for McKinsey by Circana. Check out the full selection on McKinsey on Books. BUSINESS OVERALL Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way To Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear (Penguin Group USA) BUSINESS HARDCOVER Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way To Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear (Penguin Group USA) ECONOMICS Technofeudalism by Yanis Varoufakis (Random House) DECISION MAKING Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell (Hachette Book Group) ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way To Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear (Penguin Group USA) WORKPLACE CULTURE Never not working: Why the Always-on Culture Is Bad for business—and How to fix it by Malissa Clark (Two Rivers Distribution) COMPUTERS & AI The Year in Tech, 2024: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review by Harvard Business Review (Two Rivers Distribution) SUSTAINABILITY Venture Meets Mission: Aligning People, Purpose, and Profit to Innovate and Transform Society by Arun Gupta, Gerard George, and Thomas J. Fewer (Two Rivers Distribution) BOOKMARK THIS Creating value beyond the hype Tech doesn’t create value by itself. We’re helping clients unlock its full potential with the right strategies, skills, operating models, and data. With McKinsey, it’s never just tech. Get started  If you’d like to propose a book or author for #McKAuthorTalks, please email us at Author_Talks@McKinsey.com. Due to the high volume of requests, we will respond only to those being considered. —Edited by Emily Adeyanju, editor, Charlotte Follow our thinking Share these insights Did you enjoy this newsletter? Forward it to colleagues and friends so they can subscribe too. Was this issue forwarded to you? Sign up for it and sample our 40+ other free email subscriptions here. This email contains information about McKinsey's research, insights, services, or events. By opening our emails or clicking on links, you agree to our use of cookies and web tracking technology. 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  by "McKinsey Readers & Leaders" <publishing@email.mckinsey.com> - 11:48 - 30 Mar 2024

• EP105: The 12 Factor App

  EP105: The 12 Factor App

  

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  	Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more EP105: The 12 Factor App ByteByteGo Mar 30   READ IN APP   This week’s system design refresher: ACID Properties in Databases With Examples (Youtube video) Have you heard of the 12-Factor App? What does API gateway do? How does Redis architecture evolve? Cloud Cost Reduction Techniques SPONSOR US How-to Guide: Effective Goals and Reporting for Software Teams (Sponsored) Engineering leaders need to know—and be able to show—that their teams: Deliver operational excellence Drive business impact The best way to achieve those results is by setting clear, data-backed goals and working to accomplish them. In this free guide, we walk you through how to actively improve your team’s outcomes by leveraging metrics program data, resource allocation visibility, and workflow automation. You'll also learn to audience-tailor reporting and deliver updates confidently—setting you up for continued success in your role, and in your career.  Download Your Guide Now ACID Properties in Databases With Examples Have you heard of the 12-Factor App? The "12 Factor App" offers a set of best practices for building modern software applications. Following these 12 principles can help developers and teams in building reliable, scalable, and manageable applications. Here's a brief overview of each principle: Codebase: Have one place to keep all your code, and manage it using version control like Git. Dependencies: List all the things your app needs to work properly, and make sure they're easy to install. Config: Keep important settings like database credentials separate from your code, so you can change them without rewriting code. Backing Services: Use other services (like databases or payment processors) as separate components that your app connects to. Build, Release, Run: Make a clear distinction between preparing your app, releasing it, and running it in production. Processes: Design your app so that each part doesn't rely on a specific computer or memory. It's like making LEGO blocks that fit together. Port Binding: Let your app be accessible through a network port, and make sure it doesn't store critical information on a single computer. Concurrency: Make your app able to handle more work by adding more copies of the same thing, like hiring more workers for a busy restaurant. Disposability: Your app should start quickly and shut down gracefully, like turning off a light switch instead of yanking out the power cord. Dev/Prod Parity: Ensure that what you use for developing your app is very similar to what you use in production, to avoid surprises. Logs: Keep a record of what happens in your app so you can understand and fix issues, like a diary for your software. Admin Processes: Run special tasks separately from your app, like doing maintenance work in a workshop instead of on the factory floor. Over to you: Where do you think these principles can have the most impact in improving software development practices? Latest articles If you’re not a paid subscriber, here’s what you missed this month. A Crash Course in IPv4 Addressing A Brief History of Scaling Netflix 15 Open-Source Projects That Changed the World The Top 3 Resume Mistakes Costing You the Job How Video Recommendations Work - Part 1 To receive all the full articles and support ByteByteGo, consider subscribing: Upgrade to paid What does API gateway do? The diagram below shows the detail. Step 1 - The client sends an HTTP request to the API gateway. Step 2 - The API gateway parses and validates the attributes in the HTTP request. Step 3 - The API gateway performs allow-list/deny-list checks. Step 4 - The API gateway talks to an identity provider for authentication and authorization. Step 5 - The rate limiting rules are applied to the request. If it is over the limit, the request is rejected. Steps 6 and 7 - Now that the request has passed basic checks, the API gateway finds the relevant service to route to by path matching. Step 8 - The API gateway transforms the request into the appropriate protocol and sends it to backend microservices. Steps 9-12: The API gateway can handle errors properly, and deals with faults if the error takes a longer time to recover (circuit break). It can also leverage ELK (Elastic-Logstash-Kibana) stack for logging and monitoring. We sometimes cache data in the API gateway. Over to you: What’s the difference between a load balancer and an API gateway? Do we need to use different API gateways for PC, mobile and browser separately? How does Redis architecture evolve? Redis is a popular in-memory cache. How did it evolve to the architecture it is today? 2010 - Standalone Redis When Redis 1.0 was released in 2010, the architecture was quite simple. It is usually used as a cache to the business application. However, Redis stores data in memory. When we restart Redis, we will lose all the data and the traffic directly hits the database. 2013 - Persistence When Redis 2.8 was released in 2013, it addressed the previous restrictions. Redis introduced RDB in-memory snapshots to persist data. It also supports AOF (Append-Only-File), where each write command is written to an AOF file. 2013 - Replication Redis 2.8 also added replication to increase availability. The primary instance handles real-time read and write requests, while replica synchronizes the primary's data. 2013 - Sentinel Redis 2.8 introduced Sentinel to monitor the Redis instances in real time. is a system designed to help managing Redis instances. 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• How does the UK’s arts sector contribute to its economy?

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  DELIVERING ACTIONABLE INSIGHTS ON THE DAY’S NEWS As only McKinsey can Brought to you by Liz Hilton Segel, chief client officer and managing partner, global industry practices, & Homayoun Hatami, managing partner, global client capabilities The arts in the UK In the news • Theatrical quandary. Behind the bright lights of UK stage theaters are tales that may not appear so magical. Earlier this year, one art columnist wrote that British theater is “in a dreadful state” and “dying” because of heightened interest in TV and streaming. Some UK theater executives, however, are confident that the theater is not dying, citing the return of audiences since the COVID-19 pandemic. Still, the UK arts scene faces the challenge of inflation, a cost-of-living crisis, and decreased funding by local authorities, resulting in considerably heightened production costs. [BBC] • Making Britain cool. In business and exports, the UK arts sector has contributed billions of pounds, with growth outpacing the UK economy’s by 1.5 times in the past decade. Despite this, most of the UK’s leaders in creative industries think that their competitiveness has waned over the past ten years, according to one survey’s preliminary findings. The UK, with trailblazing artists, musicians, and designers, was known as “Cool Britannia” in the ’90s. A rebranding effort is needed to ensure the arts’ continued success, according to a former UK secretary of state for culture, media, and sport. [FT] A total of 970,000 workers contribute to the UK arts sector. On McKinsey.com • Dynamic impact. The UK is a cultural powerhouse, reflect Tunde Olanrewaju—the managing partner for McKinsey’s UK, Ireland, and Israel offices—and coauthors. McKinsey analysis found that in 2022, the UK arts sector contributed £49 billion in gross value added to the UK economy—a significant sum. The industry has a definite impact on UK society, influencing the economy, people’s lives, and communities. A 2023 survey by the Department for Culture, Media, and Sport found that 91% of UK adults had participated in artistic activities over the prior 12 months. • Beyond entertainment. The arts have the power to entertain and trigger a plethora of emotions. The sector also has a broader, positive effect on people’s lives: improving their skills, their well-being, and their health. Engagement with the arts enriches the fabric of local communities. Studies even indicate that participation in art programs correlates with reduced levels of criminal behavior. See the report, The arts in the UK: Seeing the big picture, for five connections that underpin the strength of the UK arts sector. Support a thriving UK arts sector —Edited by Vanessa Burke, editor, Atlanta Was this forwarded to you? Sign up here. Or send us feedback—we’d love to hear from you. Follow our thinking This email contains information about McKinsey's research, insights, services, or events. By opening our emails or clicking on links, you agree to our use of cookies and web tracking technology. For more information on how we use and protect your information, please review our privacy policy. You received this newsletter because you subscribed to the Only McKinsey newsletter, formerly called On Point. Manage subscriptions | Unsubscribe Copyright © 2024 | McKinsey & Company, 3 World Trade Center, 175 Greenwich Street, New York, NY 10007

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• A Crash Course in IPv4 Addressing

  A Crash Course in IPv4 Addressing

  

  Welcome to our latest issue on IPv4 addressing. In this issue, we'll learn about the basic parts of IPv4 addressing, including its structure, the role of subnet masks, and the meaning of network, broadcast, and host addresses. IP is used to send packets from the source to their final destination, either within the same network or across multiple networks.

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  	Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Latest articles If you’re not a subscriber, here’s what you missed this month. 7 Microservices Interview Questions Why the Internet Is Both Robust and Fragile Unlock Highly Relevant Search with AI Does Serverless Have Servers A Crash Course in Docker To receive all the full articles and support ByteByteGo, consider subscribing: Upgrade to paid A Crash Course in IPv4 Addressing ByteByteGo Mar 28 ∙ Preview   READ IN APP   Welcome to our latest issue on IPv4 addressing. In this issue, we'll learn about the basic parts of IPv4 addressing, including its structure, the role of subnet masks, and the meaning of network, broadcast, and host addresses. IP is used to send packets from the source to their final destination, either within the same network or across multiple networks.  So, without further ado, let’s jump right into IPv4 addressing.  IPv4 Address Structure An IPv4 address is written using dotted decimal notation, but it is actually a 32-bit address. This gives us a total of about 4.29 billion possible addresses. We divide the 32-bit address into four 8-bit sections called octets. Then we convert each octet into a decimal value. This is called dotted decimal notation, and that's how we write IPv4 addresses.  The range of an IPv4 address can be from four 0s (0.0.0.0) in dotted decimal notation to four 255s (255.255.255.255). IPv4 Address and Subnet Mask An IPv4 address has two main parts: A network portion A host portion The subnet mask (also called the prefix length) separates the network portion from the host portion of the IPv4 address.  A subnet mask is 32 bits long. It has a group of 1s followed by a group of 0s. The 1s indicate the network portion of the IP address, and the 0s indicate the host portion.  How to Write a Subnet Mask There are two ways to write a subnet mask:  Dotted Decimal Notation We can use dotted decimal notation, just like for IPv4 addresses.  Example: 255.255.0.0 Slash Notation or Prefix Length We can also use a slash notation, which shows the number of 1 bits in the mask.  Example: /16 (indicating 16 one bits) 172.18.0.0/16 Using the slash notation if more common nowadays.  Finding the IPv4 Network Address Using the Subnet Mask Let’s say we have a host IPv4 address (192.168.1.100) and a subnet mask (255.255.255.0). How do we find the network address from the host address using the subnet mask?  In binary notation, we perform a bitwise AND operation between the host address and the subnet mask. For each bit position, if both the address and mask bits are 1, the result is 1. Otherwise, the result is 0. The result gives us the network address. Continue reading this post for free, courtesy of Alex Xu. Claim my free post Or upgrade your subscription. Upgrade to paid A subscription gets you: An extra deep dive on Thursdays Full archive Many expense it with team's learning budget   Like Comment Restack   © 2024 ByteByteGo 548 Market Street PMB 72296, San Francisco, CA 94104 Unsubscribe

  

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• How 10x Banking proactively detects issues with New Relic

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  March 2024 10x Banking runs on New Relic to proactively detect issues As a cloud-native core banking platform, 10x Banking wants engineering teams to make informed decisions based on real-time production insights. New Relic helps 10x collect telemetry data in one place so that teams can have ownership of the services they run and identify problems before they impact customers. Learn more Maximising the value of observability Unlock observability's full potential using the 2023 Observability Forecast insights. Our latest blog guides on empowering teams, streamlining visibility, reducing silos, and aligning technology with business goals for enhanced ROI. Dive into data-driven strategies for effective observability. Read the blog Statista cuts latency by 95% with New Relic’s free tier Hendrik Duerkop, Director of Infrastructure and Technology, shares how Statista massively reduced latency without increasing spend with New Relic’s free tier. Read the blog Useful reads How New Relic's Kubernetes Agents team decreased release time by 99% with GitHub workflows Discover how the New Relic Kubernetes agents team boosted release velocity by 99% with GitHub workflows, reducing release time from two weeks to just an hour weekly. Learn more Upcoming Events AWS Summit, London 2024 We're thrilled to announce our participation at AWS Summit London 2024 on April 24th. Dive deep into maximizing uptime with unparalleled insights into your AWS environment. Come and Join us at booth G30 for live demos, cool swag, and a chance to win a Meta Quest 2 or Rayban-Meta glasses. Don't miss out on this opportunity to supercharge your AWS journey! Register now to secure your spot New Relic End-of-Life Updates Query Builder and NRQL Console (March 31, 2024) We are consolidating our querying experiences by removing the Query builder capability and the NRQL console feature. Instead, you can find our new unified Query your data experience at the bottom of any UI page. If you’ve been working from a bookmark to access either Query builder capability or NRQL console, those bookmarks will no longer work and could break your workflow. Please see here for more information. Need help? Let's get in touch. Ask Community Ask Support Contact Sales This email is sent from an account used for sending messages only. Please do not reply to this email to contact us—we will not get your response. View in browser This email was sent to info@learn.odoo.com  Update your email preferences. For information about our privacy practices, see our Privacy Policy. Need to contact New Relic? You can chat or call us at +44 20 3859 9190. Strand Bridge House, 138-142 Strand, London WC2R 1HH © 2024 New Relic, Inc. All rights reserved. New Relic logo are trademarks of New Relic, Inc Global unsubscribe page.

  

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• Do you know how to adopt generative AI quickly and safely?

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  	Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more How Uber Uses Integrated Redis Cache to Serve 40M Reads/Second? ByteByteGo Mar 26   READ IN APP   80% automated E2E test coverage in 4 months (Sponsored) Were you aware that despite allocating 25%+ of budgets to QA, 2/3rds of companies still have less than 50% end-to-end test coverage? This means over half of every app is exposed to quality issues. QA Wolf solves this coverage problem by being the first QA solution to get web apps to 80% automated E2E test coverage in weeks instead of years. How's QA Wolf different? We don't charge hourly. We guarantee results. We provide all of the tooling and (parallel run) infrastructure needed to run a 15-minute QA cycle. → Learn more about QA Wolf today! In 2020, Uber launched their in-house, distributed database named Docstore. It was built on top of MySQL and was capable of storing tens of petabytes of data while serving tens of millions of requests per second. Over the years, Docstore was adopted by all business verticals at Uber for building their services. Most of these applications required low latency, higher performance, and scalability from the database, while also supporting higher workloads. Challenges with Low Latency Database Reads Every database faces a challenge when dealing with applications that need low-latency read access with a highly scalable design. Some of these challenges are as follows: Data retrieval speed from a disk has a threshold. Beyond that, you cannot squeeze out more performance by optimizing an application’s data model and queries to improve latency. Vertical scaling can take you far but assigning more resources by upgrading to better hosts has limitations. Ultimately, the database engine turns into a bottleneck. Horizontal scaling by splitting your database into multiple partitions is a promising approach. However, it also gets operationally more complex over time and doesn’t eliminate issues such as hot partitions. Both vertical and horizontal scaling strategies are costly in the long term. For reference, costs get multiplied 6X to handle three stateful nodes across two regions. To overcome these challenges, microservices typically make use of caching.  Uber started offering Redis as a distributed caching solution for the various teams. They followed the typical caching design pattern where the service writes to the database and cache while serving reads directly from the cache. The below diagram shows this pattern: However, the normal caching pattern where a service takes care of managing the cache has a few problems at the scale of Uber. Each team has to manage its own Redis cache cluster. The cache invalidation logic is duplicated across multiple microservices and there are chances of deviation. Services must maintain cache replication to stay hot in case of region failovers. The main point is that every team that needed caching had to spend a large amount of effort to build and maintain a custom caching solution. To avoid this, Uber decided to build an integrated caching solution known as CacheFront. Latest articles If you’re not a paid subscriber, here’s what you missed this month. A Brief History of Scaling Netflix 15 Open-Source Projects That Changed the World The Top 3 Resume Mistakes Costing You the Job How Video Recommendations Work - Part 1 How to Design a Good API? To receive all the full articles and support ByteByteGo, consider subscribing: Upgrade to paid Design Goals with CacheFront While building CacheFront, Uber had a few important design goals in mind: Reduce the need for vertical or horizontal scaling to support low-latency read requests Improve the P50 and P99 latencies and stabilize latency spikes Bring down the resource allocation for the database engine layer Replace the plethora of custom-built caching solutions created by individual teams for their needs. Instead, move the ownership for maintaining and supporting Redis to the Docstore team. Make caching transparent from the point of view of the service, allowing teams to just focus on the business logic Decouple the caching solution from Docstore’s partitioning schema to avoid hot partitions Support horizontal scalability of the caching layer with cheap host machines and make the entire operation cost-effective High-Level Architecture with CacheFront To support these design goals, Uber created its integrated caching solution tied to Docstore. The below diagram shows the high-level architecture of Docstore along with CacheFront: As you can see, Docstore’s query engine acts as the entry point for services and is responsible for serving reads and writes to clients.  Therefore, it was the ideal place to integrate the caching layer, allowing the cache to be decoupled from the disk-based storage. The query engine implemented an interface to Redis to store cached data along with mechanisms to invalidate the cache entries. Handing Cached Reads CacheFront uses a cache aside or look aside strategy when it comes to reads. The below steps explain how it works: The query engine layer receives a read request for one or more rows The query engine tries to get the rows from Redis and streams the response to the users Next, it retrieves the remaining rows from the database (if needed) The query engine asynchronously populates Redis with the rows that are not found in the cache. Stream the remaining rows to the users. Refer to the below diagram that explains the process more clearly: Cache Invalidation with CDC As you may have heard a million times by now, cache invalidation is one of the two hard things in Computer Science. One of the simplest cache invalidation strategies is configuring a TTL (Time-to-Live) and letting the cache entries expire once they cross the TTL. While this can work for many cases, most users expect changes to be reflected faster than the TTL. However, lowering the default TTL to a very small value can sink the cache hit rate and reduce its effectiveness. To make cache invalidation more relevant, Uber leveraged Flux, Docstore’s change data capture and streaming service. Flux works by tailing the MySQL binlog events for each database cluster and publishes the events to a list of consumers. It powers replication, materialized views, data lake ingestions, and data consistency validations among various nodes. For cache invalidation, a new consumer was created that subscribes to the data events and invalidates/upserts the new rows in Redis.  The below diagram shows the read and write paths with cache invalidation. There were some key advantages of this approach: They could make the cache consistent with the database within seconds of the database change as opposed to minutes (depending on the TTL). Also, using binlogs made sure that uncommitted transactions couldn’t pollute the cache. However, there were also a couple of issues that had to be ironed out. 1 - Deduplicating Cache Writes Since writes happen to the cache simultaneously between the read and write paths, it was possible to write a stale row to the cache by overwriting the newest value. To prevent this, they deduplicated writes based on the timestamp of the row set in MySQL.  This timestamp served as a version number and was parsed from the encoded row value in Redis using the EVAL command. 2 - Stronger Consistency Requirement Even though cache invalidation using CDC with Flux was faster than relying on TTL, it still provided eventual consistency. However, some use cases required stronger consistency guarantees such as the reading-own-writes guarantee.  For such cases, they created a dedicated API to the query engine that allowed users to explicitly invalidate the cached rows right after the corresponding writes were completed. By doing so, they didn’t have to wait for the CDC process to complete for the cache to become consistent. Scale and Resiliency with CacheFront The basic requirement of CacheFront was ready once they started supporting reads and cache invalidation. However, Uber also wanted this solution to work at their scale. They also had critical resiliency needs around the entire platform. To achieve scale and resiliency with CacheFront, they utilized multiple strategies. Compare cache Measurements are the key to proving that a system works as expected. The same was the case with CacheFront. They added a special mode to CacheFront that shadows read requests to cache, allowing them to run a comparison between the data in the cache and the database to verify that both were in sync. Any mismatches such as stale rows are logged as metrics for further analysis. The below diagram shows a high-level design of the Compare cache system. Based on the results from this system, Uber found that the cache was 99.99% consistent. Cache Warming In a multi-region environment, a cache is only effective if it is always warm. If that’s not the case, a region fail-over can result in cache misses and drastically increase the number of requests to the database. Since a Docstore instance spawned in two different geographical regions with an active-active deployment, a cold cache meant that you couldn’t scale down the storage engine to save costs since there was a high chance of heavy database load in the case of failover. To solve this problem, the Uber engineering team used cross-region Redis replication.  However, Docstore also had its own cross-region replication. Since operating both replication setups simultaneously could result in consistent data between the cache and database, they enhanced the Redis cross-region replication by adding a new cache warming mode. Here’s how the cache warming mode works: They tail the Redis write stream to replicate keys to the remote region In the remote region, they don’t directly update the cache. Instead, they issue read requests to the query engine layer for the replicated keys In the case of a cache miss, the query engine layer reads the data from the database and writes it to the cache. The response stream is discarded. The below diagram shows this approach in detail: Replicating keys instead of values makes sure that the data in the cache is consistent with the database in its respective region. Also, it ensures that the same set of cached rows is present in both regions, thereby keeping the cache warm in case of a failover. Sharding Some large customers of Docstore within Uber can generate a very large number of read-write requests. It was challenging to cache all of it within a single Redis cluster that’s limited by the maximum number of nodes. To mitigate this, they allowed a single Docstore instance to map to multiple Redis clusters. This helped avoid a massive surge of requests to the database in case multiple nodes in a single Redis cluster go down. However, there was still a case where a single Redis cluster going down may create a hot shard on the database. To prevent this, they sharded the Redis cluster using a scheme that was different from the database sharding scheme. This makes sure that the load from a single Redis cluster going down is distributed between multiple database shards. The below diagram explains this scenario in more detail. Circuit Breaker When a Redis node goes down, a get/set request to that node generates an unnecessary latency penalty. To avoid this penalty, Uber implemented a sliding window circuit breaker to short-circuit such requests. They count the number of errors on each node for a particular bucket of time and compute the number of errors within the sliding window’s width. See the below diagram to understand the sliding window approach: The circuit breaker is configured to short-circuit a fraction of the requests to a node based on the error count. Once the threshold is hit, the circuit breaker is tripped and no more requests can be made to the node until the sliding window passes. Results and Conclusion Uber’s project of implementing an integrated Redis cache with Docstore was quite successful. They created a transparent caching solution that was scalable and managed to improve latency, reduce load, and bring down costs. Here are some stats that show the results: The P75 latency went down by 75% and the P99.9 latency went down by over 67% while also limiting latency spikes Cache invalidation using flux and compare cache provided a cache consistency of 99.9%. Sharding and cache warming made the setup scalable and fault-tolerant, allowing a use case with over 6M reads per second with a 99% cache hit rate to successfully failover to a remote region. Costs were down significantly as the same use case of 6M reads per second approximately required 60K CPU cores for the storage engine. With CacheFront, they achieved the same results with just 3K Redis cores. At present, CacheFront supports over 40M requests per second in production and the number is growing every day. References: How Uber Serves Over 40 million requests per second using integrated cache? An explanation of Redis EVAL function Uber’s CacheFront Redis Cache Aside Simplified SPONSOR US Get your product in front of more than 500,000 tech professionals. Our newsletter puts your products and services directly in front of an audience that matters - hundreds of thousands of engineering leaders and senior engineers - who have influence over significant tech decisions and big purchases. Space Fills Up Fast - Reserve Today Ad spots typically sell out about 4 weeks in advance. 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  DELIVERING ACTIONABLE INSIGHTS ON THE DAY’S NEWS As only McKinsey can Brought to you by Liz Hilton Segel, chief client officer and managing partner, global industry practices, & Homayoun Hatami, managing partner, global client capabilities Top CEOs’ leadership lessons In the news • Satisfied with small business. The chief executive job often comes with grueling hours, little time for sleep or exercise, and a lot of stress. Unfortunately, that can take a toll on CEOs’ health. An executive outplacement company found that 19 chief executives at US companies died in office in 2023 (a historical high) and that more than 1,900 transitioned out of their roles. Small business owners, however, tend to be healthier and more fulfilled, compared with their employees. They have reported less frequent mental and physical issues and greater satisfaction with their lives, according to Baylor University. [Inc.] • CEOs and remote work. CEOs are finding it hard to see eye to eye with employees as the multiyear struggle over returning to the office continues. After a European software company recently announced that it would require employees to work on-site more frequently, more than 5,000 workers stated in a letter that leaders’ “radical change in direction” regarding working from home had left them feeling “betrayed.” CEOs, for their part, are voicing concerns about remote work’s erosion of corporate culture and workers’ ability to learn on the job. [WaPo] “The research suggests that, over the past 50 years, the importance of what the CEO does for a company’s performance has increased twofold.” On McKinsey.com • Secrets to success. What separates the world’s best leaders from the rest? To find out, McKinsey senior partners Carolyn Dewar, Scott Keller, and Vikram Malhotra studied thousands of CEOs around the world. Through interviewing 67 top CEOs for their book CEO Excellence: The Six Mindsets That Distinguish the Best Leaders from the Rest, they determined the mindsets, approaches, and practices that deliver powerful results. Since March 2022, CEO Excellence has sold more than 160,000 copies and is being translated into 14 languages. • Being bold. Dewar, Keller, and Malhotra discovered that top CEOs share six mindsets. One is that excellent CEOs are bold. Since the job comes with enormous responsibilities, executives understandably might want to play it safe. Top-performing CEOs, however, are constantly thinking about pushing performance to the next level. Leading CEOs also focus on doing what only they can do; they don’t let themselves get spread thin. Study six mindsets that elite leaders share and learn more about CEO Excellence. Explore top CEOs’ mindsets —Edited by Belinda Yu, editor, Atlanta Was this forwarded to you? Sign up here. Or send us feedback—we’d love to hear from you. Follow our thinking This email contains information about McKinsey's research, insights, services, or events. By opening our emails or clicking on links, you agree to our use of cookies and web tracking technology. For more information on how we use and protect your information, please review our privacy policy. You received this newsletter because you subscribed to the Only McKinsey newsletter, formerly called On Point. Manage subscriptions | Unsubscribe Copyright © 2024 | McKinsey & Company, 3 World Trade Center, 175 Greenwich Street, New York, NY 10007

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