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

Change Starts Here

” One quote that never seems to be mentioned is this follow up in 1995, where Michael Hammer said: “In Reengineering the Corporation , we estimated that between 50 and 70 percent of reengineering efforts were not successful in achieving the desired breakthrough performance. .” 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. The Next Level Find out what insiders know about executive success in Scott Eblin’s new and expanded book, The Next Level: What Insiders Know About Executive Success. Good take on it. Your comment has not yet been posted. Click Here.

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Buy-In – The Imperative Strategy

Strategy Driven

Business Improv: Experiential Learning Exercises to Train Employees to Handle Every Situation with Success by Val and Sarah Gee The secret to business growth is right before your eyes – it’s the creativity and innovation percolating in each one of your employees every minute of every day. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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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

Accelerate performance… learn and leverage this secret tool to organizational success. 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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The Best Leadership Books of 2014

Leading Blog

Kotter For most companies, the hierarchy is the singular operating system at the heart of the firm. He highlights the consequences of the well-intentioned but damaging approaches we sometimes take to prepare our kids for success in life. Best Leadership Books of 2011. Blog Post ). Blog Post ). Best Leadership Books of 2012.

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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). Studies show that a person’s emotional intelligence (the ability to manage one’s own emotions and the emotions of others) is not only more important than their IQ, but the single most important variable in career and life success. By Daniel H. By Clayton M.