Inside the Strategy Room 247. Transforming for growth
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Apr 17, 2025 This episode features Louisa Greco, a transformation expert from McKinsey's Toronto office, Sandra Sancier-Sultan, a senior partner focused on sustainability and financial services in Paris, and Rebecca Doherty, who specializes in strategic growth from San Francisco. They discuss how one in four companies leverage transformation as a pathway to growth, even amidst challenges like inflation. Key topics include cultivating a growth mindset, aligning culture with transformation efforts, and the vital role of employee insights in drafting successful growth strategies.
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Growth Requires Mindset and Rigor
- Growth requires a mindset of aspiration, activating all growth pathways, and rigorous execution.
- Successful growth outperformance depends on pushing core business, innovating adjacencies, and creating new businesses methodically.
Five Growth Mindsets Matter
- Five key growth mindsets drive outcomes: prioritizing growth investment, bold action, customer centricity, talent attraction, and execution rigor.
- Real behaviors implementing mindsets lag behind self-reported beliefs, highlighting importance of execution.
Make Growth Behaviors Viral
- Change culture by designing interventions that make new growth behaviors viral norms.
- Align top management actions and systems like evaluations to consistently support growth behavior change.