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June 2011 Leadership Development Carnival

LDRLB

John Kotter (not a LeaderLab contributor but we’d love to have him) wrote a great post called Throw Out Your Strategy? Bret Simmons ‘ Leadership Guru Reality Check warns us to be careful of well-packaged leadership “experts,&# who might not have anything real to offer. Not So Fast.

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June 2011 Leadership Development Carnival

LDRLB

” John Kotter (not a LDRLB contributor but we’d love to have him) wrote a great post called Throw Out Your Strategy? Bret Simmons ‘ Leadership Guru Reality Check warns us to be careful of well-packaged leadership “experts,” who might not have anything real to offer. Not So Fast.

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It’s Time to Abolish the 70% Change Failure Rate Statistic

Change Starts Here

In 2011, Mark Hughes of the University of Brighton wrote about his research into the source of the statistic in The Journal of Change Management: Do 70 per cent of all organizational change initiatives really fail? .” Google “70% change failure rate,” and you’ll see 1.96 million results. ” How do they know?

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Video Book Club: A Sense of Urgency

Next Level Blog

Posted by: Jon Latzer | June 29, 2010 at 01:44 PM Love Kotter's work. Subscribe to Blog Updates via Email or RSS Chart Your Course in 2011 with a Life GPS® Interactive Program Details Here Join me for the. I also share my big take away from the book not it’s not just about the facts, it’s about something else. Good take on it.

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Buy-In – The Imperative Strategy

Strategy Driven

This idea is supported by Harvard Business School Professor John Kotter, authority on leadership and change, who finds that in order to succeed, 75% of the company’s management, needs to ‘buy into’ the change. I had forgotten about them because I get stressed with the things I don’t like as much. Consider leaving a comment!

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Change the Culture, Change the Game: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Change the Culture, Change the Game: The Breakthrough Strategy for Energizing Your Organization and Creating Accountability for Results Roger Connors and Tom Smith Portfolio/The Penguin Group (2011) A comprehensive, cohesive, and cost-effective methodology to achieve breakthrough results In Leading Change, James O’Toole suggests that much (most?)

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HBR 10 Must-Reads on Change: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

HBR 10 Must-Reads on Change Various Contributors Harvard Business Press (2011) This volume is one of several in a new series of anthologies of articles that initially appeared in the Harvard Business Review, in this instance from 1960 until 2006.

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