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Book Review of “The Culture Cycle: How to Shape the Unseen Force that Transforms Performance”

The Practical Leader

John Kotter and James Heskett’s classic book, Corporate Culture and Performance , is an organization development classic. Southwest Airlines, Wal-Mart, IBM, ING, 3M, and Proctor and Gamble are some of the adaptive cultures providing insights to the enduring success growing from their highly effective cultures. Expectations (e.g.

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10 Principles For Developing Strategic Leaders

Tanveer Naseer

A 2015 PwC study of 6,000 senior executives , conducted using a research methodology developed by David Rooke of Harthill Consulting and William Torbert of Boston University, revealed just how pervasive this shortfall is: Only 8 percent of the respondents turned out to be strategic leaders, or those effective at leading transformations.

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How Managers Can See the Future More Clearly

Harvard Business Review

Less than one in 10 firms said they “innovate in an agile way.” In the 1950s, Boeing was an insignificant player in commercial airliners. Leaders must remove all doubt that everyone needs to develop the skills and behaviours that will achieve something novel and special. ” A 2014 survey by Deloitte of top U.S.