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. Management is (Still) Not Leadership. John Kotter. While the elements that contribute to organizational core stability (clarity of mission, etc.)

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Kotter Agility Crisis Consultative 71

Coaching Tip

JUNE 1, 2016

Backed by 40 years of research, “THAT’S NOT HOW WE DO IT HERE: A Story about How Organizations Rise and Fall—and Can Rise Again,” tackles the eternal tension between management and leadership and the reasons for the rise and fall of organizations. Secrets to gleaning “buy-in” from top leadership. Can't Get Enough Leadership ,

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Kotter eBook Agility Leadership Development 70

Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 24, 2017

Change management, which is taught, has been the default approach for strategy execution, but it is a subset of execution and more importantly does not work for implementing corporate strategy. John Kotter offers the “8 Step Process for Leading Change”. I call this the “Strategy Execution Skills Gap”. Kaplan and David P.

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Execution Strategy Kleiner Norton 211

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2012

If you are a manager, these numbers should alarm you. John Gabarro and John Kotter give good advice in their Harvard Business Review article Managing Your Boss. But the news is not good. Perhaps you’ve had discussions about it or even tried to do something. Are you proud to work for your company?

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Kotter Globalization Committee Guidelines 230

Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

At the start of the summer season I posted the article below. Perhaps a book that will help you improve your leadership skills. Awhile back, members of five groups on the professional social media web site LinkedIn voluntarily recommended their favorite books about leadership. Any great ones that aren't on the list below?

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Books Leadership Handbook Kotter 59

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

In providing research and developing training programs for various large corporations about managing change, we find that the biggest stumbling block for employees from top-down is lack of buy-in. Top executives have the vision, but often fail to get buy-in from managers who have to carry out the change initiative.

Strategy 73

Strategy Kotter RASCI Motivation 73

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Information overload is the management crisis of the 21stcentury. Then there are the leadership, cultural, and intangible benefits that arise from the consistent practice of debriefing. Leadership must be observed and practiced in order to be mastered. market) risk obsolescence or irrelevance. But how is this done?

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Short-term Tools Learning-by-Doing Schein 71

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2017

One area so far relatively untouched is change management. The combination of predictive analytics, large data sets, and the processing power of today’s computers is starting to transform change management. But before that can happen, we have to understand why data has failed to catch on in change management to date.

Marketing 8

Marketing Root Cause Analysis Management Supply Chain 8

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. ” Many managers don’t realize that the two are not the same. Let me explain.

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Kotter Decentralization Business Model Engineering 8

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.” And plenty of manager CEOs in our data set do run successful firms. Which CEO Type Is Better for Companies? Is One CEO Type Always Better?

CEO 10

CEO Survey Succession Supply Chain 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

The company’s Supply Chain Leadership Team had seen the pace of change for its group began to plateau. To address these questions, Coty partnered with Kotter International to implement a broad global change management program. Kotter’s book Accelerate.). Insight Center. Operations in a Connected World.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Kotter Critical Success Factor Learning-by-Doing 8

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. Six Sigma or Lean) the right way.

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Process Mayo Six Sigma Ryan 13

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. Doing so, we stumbled across a formula for accelerating organizational objectives while managing even higher levels of performance and engagement. Organizational transformation is notoriously difficult. Rounding and listening.

Health Care 8

Health Care How To Operations Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Obama nominated Robert McDonald , an Army veteran and experienced executive who had honed his leadership skills during a 33-year career at Proctor and Gamble, to attempt the difficult turnaround. McDonald and his team’s approach was heavily influenced by John Kotter’s eight steps for effective organizational change.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Crisis Kotter 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2016

While the popular press talks of stress as a negative to be avoided, seasoned managers know better. If you’ve been around the management block a time or two, you’ve probably also seen the other side of stress. This magic zone is what John Kotter referred to as the “Productive Range of Distress.”

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Team Stress How To Automotive 9