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Benefits of Debriefing

Strategy Driven

First, there are the discrete, tangible products that emerge directly from the debrief process. John Kotter, the renowned scholar on change management, suggests that successful change requires management to create opportunities for ‘short term wins,’ thereby repetitively reinforcing positive steps along the path to change.

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How Coty Reinvigorated Its Supply Chain

Harvard Business Review

In 2010, Coty was rapidly expanding through acquisitions and internal growth and needed to align, integrate, and further accelerate improvements in its supply chain. To address these questions, Coty partnered with Kotter International to implement a broad global change management program. Kotter’s book Accelerate.).

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Culture Trumps Strategy, Every Time

Harvard Business Review

Many other experts, such as Senge and Kotter have certainly added to that understanding with complex and nuanced constructs, but Caldwell's invisible glue comment holds a truth. We can barely see and surely can't measure the cultural aspect of what makes great products, revenues or earnings per share. Follow her on Twitter @nilofer.