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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? Kudos to Jennifer Miller for hosting this month’s post and always to Dan McCarthy for organizing this awesome monthly resource. 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? Kudos to Jennifer Miller for hosting this month’s post and always to Dan McCarthy for organizing this awesome monthly resource. Not So Fast.

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

Change Starts Here

Interestingly, many people quote the 70% failure rate in John Kotter’s seminal HBR article, “Leading Change” from 1995, but the statistic just isn’t there. Google “70% change failure rate,” and you’ll see 1.96 million results. ” How do they know? Is the 70% Failure Rate a Myth? by Jason Little.

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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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Buy-In – The Imperative Strategy

Strategy Driven

How do you harness it to make it work for your organization? 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. Business Improv ! Consider leaving a comment!

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Benefits of Debriefing

Strategy Driven

Organizations that fail to continuously revise assumptions about their operating environment (i.e. The Debrief Imperative is a culmination of over a decade of teaching and practice in Global 1000 organizations. Harmful root causes can fester and grow to infect the organization if left unaddressed. But how is this done?

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The Best Leadership Books of 2014

Leading Blog

We must be creative and innovative in our organizations but perhaps more importantly, in working on ourselves. Learn or Die : Using Science to Build a Leading-Edge Learning Organization by Edward D. Learn or Die : Using Science to Build a Leading-Edge Learning Organization by Edward D. Best Leadership Books of 2011.

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