First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Ken Perlman for Forbes magazine. He is a devoted father of two girls and believes that many of the lessons learned in fatherhood apply, on a certain level, to teaching clients change leadership. Here he shares the parallels between building a complex LEGO set with his […].

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Kotter Magazine Leadership Blog 93

In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 28, 2012

The latest thinking from the great strategists of the era – Michael Porter, Henry Ginsberg, Rosabeth Kanter, John Kotter. I scribed notes of my favorite articles and had my secretary type them. Here are the benefits I garnered from a decade of prolific reading: 1. Strategy. Perennial Wisdom. A client in need of innovation?

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Change Starts Here

JUNE 3, 2014

It’s mentioned in passing as a fact in most change management books and articles nowadays. ” Another oft-quoted source is Beer and Nohria’s 2000 HBR article, Cracking the Code of Change , in which they state, with no reference or evidence whatsoever, “The brutal fact is that about 70% of all change initiatives fail.”

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The Office Blend Blog

MARCH 31, 2020

Following this thread, I thought it appropriate to share a few articles from the The Core Masterclass reading list, which is designed to build awareness about this very topic. John Kotter. One thing becomes evident quickly: We cannot expect to draw against a core that has been woefully neglected. Happy reading. Marla Gottschalk, HBR.

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LDRLB

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

John Kotter is a Harvard Business School professor and prolific author on leadership and change. The bulk of Kotter’s work takes the form of scholarly articles and intellectual books. After years of research, Kotter published Leading Change. Leadership book review change kotter'

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First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by John Kotter for the Harvard Business Review blog.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 24, 2017

Paul Leinwand, Cesare Mainardi and Art Kleiner stated in their 2015 Harvard Business Review article that only 8% of leaders are effective at both creating good strategies and executing them. John Kotter offers the “8 Step Process for Leading Change”. Kaplan and David P. Norton and their Palladium associates.

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Coaching Tip

JUNE 1, 2016

Source : John Kotter: That's Not How We Do It Here!: Related articles. A Story about How Organizations Rise and Fall--and Can Rise Again. Self-Coaching Leadership Books in ebook or paperback editions: . Can't Get Enough Leadership , . Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous (VUCA) Business.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 31, 2017

I’ll read Daniel Goleman HRB article “ What Makes a Leader ”. I’ll l earn from the classics : John Kotter, William Bridges, Peter Senge and others and apply these proven models and techniques to a significant change that I need to drive this year. Delegate more. Lead Change. Stretch myself with a “strategic challenge” project.

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Leadership Development Goal Development Self-aware 120

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2012

John Gabarro and John Kotter give good advice in their Harvard Business Review article Managing Your Boss. Develop a positive relationship with your boss. If you forge ties with your boss based on mutual respect and understanding, both of you will be more effective. Are you proud to work for your company?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

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. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article. All rights reserved.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 23, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Nilofer Merchant for the Harvard Business Review blog series, “The Conversation.&# To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. * * * Trust, fights, and child care.

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

At the start of the summer season I posted the article below. Now that most of summer has gone by, what books did you read? Any great ones that aren't on the list below? Readers' favorites included those written by or about sports coaches, athletes, CEOs, scholars, religious leaders, governmental and military leaders.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 13, 2011

HBR 10 Must-Reads on Change Various Contributors Harvard Business Press (2011) This volume is one of several in a new series of anthologies of articles that initially appeared in the Harvard Business Review, in this instance from 1960 until 2006.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

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. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article. All rights reserved.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2015

It’s been almost 10 years since HBR published John Kotter’s classic article,” Why Transformation Efforts Fail.” ” Many managers don’t realize that the two are not the same.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Although the algorithm is completely agnostic, the classification it generates closely resembles John Kotter’s distinction between “managers” and “leaders.” In effect, we asked the algorithm: If you had to explain CEO behavior by dividing them into two types, how would you do it?

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CEO Survey Succession Supply Chain 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Yet most reports, such as John Kotter's classic Harvard Business Review article " Leading Change: Why Transformation Effort Fail ," show that few attempts at fundamental change are very successful, a few are utter failures, and most fall somewhere in between, with a distinct tilt to failure.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

To address these questions, Coty partnered with Kotter International to implement a broad global change management program. Kotter’s book Accelerate.). The Coty experience also informs case study examples in John P.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2012

For a detailed look at other ways to handle your supervisor, read the classic HBR article Managing Your Boss by John J. Research has shown that a prime determinant of workplace satisfaction and performance is a supportive boss who respects you and your ideas. Gabarro and John P. It's one of our favorites. Okay, you've taken some more steps.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2017

The most popular managerial approach to change management is John Kotter’s eight-step model. Most models for change management are rooted in research from the 1940s that was originally designed to explain how small groups adapt to change, not large complex organizations.

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Marketing Root Cause Analysis Management Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Inspired by John Kotter’s dual-operating structure model, we asked all of these employees to maintain their “day jobs” within the established hierarchy, while also using 5-10% of their time to work on fast-cycle, informal innovation projects across silos. More than 600 were selected.

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Innovation Company Agility Workshop 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Twenty years ago, John Kotter pegged the failure rate at 70% and the needle hasn’t moved much since. Organizational transformation is notoriously difficult. Major change also takes a long time to implement — between five and seven years on average — and the performance improvements that are achieved rarely last.

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Health Care How To Operations Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2016

This magic zone is what John Kotter referred to as the “Productive Range of Distress.” Somewhere in between these two extremes is the ideal level of stress; one that creates positive pressure in the direction of change without causing debilitating worry.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

McDonald and his team’s approach was heavily influenced by John Kotter’s eight steps for effective organizational change. .” In this case, McDonald set out to transform the design of VA to help the organization better achieve its mission for veterans.

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