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June 2011 Leadership Development Carnival

LDRLB

David Burkus ‘ Toward a New Kind of Distinction muses about the merit of making the distinction between “leadership” and “management.&#. John Kotter (not a LeaderLab contributor but we’d love to have him) wrote a great post called Throw Out Your Strategy? Not So Fast.

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June 2011 Leadership Development Carnival

LDRLB

David Burkus ‘ Toward a New Kind of Distinction muses about the merit of making the distinction between “leadership” and “management.” ” John Kotter (not a LDRLB contributor but we’d love to have him) wrote a great post called Throw Out Your Strategy? Not So Fast.

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

Change Starts Here

You don’t have to be in or near the field of change management long before you hear a daunting statistic: 70% of change initiatives fail. It’s mentioned in passing as a fact in most change management books and articles nowadays. Is change management challenging? ” 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

In providing research and developing training programs for various large corporations about managing change, we find that the biggest stumbling block for employees from top-down is lack of buy-in. Top executives have the vision, but often fail to get buy-in from managers who have to carry out the change initiative.

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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

Every HR, OD professional, and management consultant should at the very least be aware of their existence, if not well-versed in their ideas and theories. In one of the defining management studies carried out in the 90s, Collins and his team complied a list of 1,435 companies in search of those special few that could truly be called “great.”

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Benefits of Debriefing

Strategy Driven

Information overload is the management crisis of the 21stcentury. 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. But how is this done?