The McKinsey Podcast
Building leaders from the ground up
Feb 14, 2025
Ida Kristensen, a Senior Partner at McKinsey, sheds light on the pressing challenges CEOs face today, which have doubled in complexity since a decade ago. She discusses essential leadership traits like resilience and energy management, emphasizing the need for a 'leadership factory' to nurture effective leaders. Kristensen also breaks down the three key types of organizational resilience—financial, operational, and individual—using Best Buy as a compelling case study to illustrate adaptability and innovative practices in a changing landscape.
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Quick takeaways
- Effective leadership today requires essential traits like continuous learning and resilience to adapt to rapid changes and disruptions.
- Building organizational resilience involves developing financial, operational, and individual resilience to ensure sustainable success during crises and changes.
Deep dives
AI Maturity and Leadership Shortcomings
The current landscape of artificial intelligence adoption reveals that only 1% of companies have reached AI maturity, primarily due to inadequate leadership. Many leaders are not investing sufficient capital or adjusting company strategies effectively to integrate AI into their operations. This shortfall highlights a significant gap between the potential of AI technologies and their actual implementation in organizations. Consequently, the research emphasizes that the responsibility lies with leaders to overcome these hurdles and drive their companies towards AI maturity.
