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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? David Burkus ‘ Toward a New Kind of Distinction muses about the merit of making the distinction between “leadership” and “management.&#. 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? David Burkus ‘ Toward a New Kind of Distinction muses about the merit of making the distinction between “leadership” and “management.” 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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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. You just finished reading Buy-In - The Imperative Strategy ! 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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Benefits of Debriefing

Strategy Driven

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. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Third, debriefing is a catalyst for change. All rights reserved.

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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (2011). A Harvard Business School professor, Kotter emphasises a comprehensive eight-step framework that can be followed by executives at all levels. According to Sinek, great companies and leaders start with the “Why” layer. By Daniel H. Leading Change (1995).