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First Look: Leadership Books for June 2021

Leading Blog

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in June 2021. Kotter with Vanessa Akhtar and Gaurav Gupta. Kotter, Vanessa Akhtar, and Gaurav Gupta explore how to create non-linear, dramatic change in your organization. Upstanding : How Company Character Catalyzes Loyalty, Agility, and Hypergrowth by Frank A.

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First Look: Leadership Books for April 2014

Leading Blog

Here''s a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in April. Accelerate : Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World by John P. Leadership Blindspots : How Successful Leaders Identify and Overcome the Weaknesses That Matter by Robert B. Creativity, Inc. Dotlich, Peter C. Cairo and Cade Cowan.

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That’s Not How We Do It Here!

Leading Blog

And John Kotter and Holger Rathgeber’s That’s Not How We Do It Here! They begin to cope with their size by cementing in systems, structures and policies, that inadvertently kill speed, agility and innovation. Of Related Interest: An Interview with John Kotter on Urgency. does just that. Leading Change: Our Iceberg is Melting.

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A Selection of Readings From the Core Masterclass

The Office Blend Blog

Management is (Still) Not Leadership. John Kotter. What Leads to Organizational Agility: It’s Not What You Think. Happy reading. If You Want Engaged Employees, Offer Them Stability. Marla Gottschalk, HBR. A Blinding Flash of the Obvious , Tom Peters, Insights by Stanford Business.

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142: That’s Not How We Do It Here! — How to Stay Agile and Innovative as a Mature Company | with John Kotter

Engaging Leader

Most mature organizations have a built-in tendency to kill off anything agile, innovative, and entrepreneurial — which often is exactly what’s needed to stay ahead of today’s ever-increasing pace of change in the […]

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Leadership and Evolution

Coaching Tip

The first answer is the nature of management and the nature of leadership. Our misunderstanding of this issue makes us believe that a management-driven hierarchy with competent executives at the top ought to be able to guide an organization to move faster, be more agile and thrive. Management is not Leadership. Why is this?

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Great Leadership Comes with a Counterintuitive Approach

Great Leadership By Dan

Lady GaGa) , with the implication that leadership is an intuitive skill. Great leadership is certainly associated with strong instincts and intuition, but intuition and instincts are shaped by training and more importantly, greatly augmented through experience. change failure intuition leadership risk Shaun Spearmon success'