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3 Ways Leaders Can Help Bring Great Ideas To Life

Tanveer Naseer

The following is a guest piece by Kotter International President, Russell Raath on behalf of The Economist Executive Education Navigator. The idea that saves the business $10 million may come from a production line supervisor; the concept that opens up an entirely new market for your products might come from a junior sales rep.

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Does a Mentor have to Breathe?

In the CEO Afterlife

The latest thinking from the great strategists of the era – Michael Porter, Henry Ginsberg, Rosabeth Kanter, John Kotter. I came up through marketing; quite honestly, during my years in marketing I hadn’t given much thought to HR. I scribed notes of my favorite articles and had my secretary type them. Human Resources.

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Leaders Can’t Execute Strategy

Great Leadership By Dan

This has left a skills gap among today’s leaders that heavily contributes to the downfall of company attempts to execute their strategy, resulting in loss of market and shareholder value. 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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Did You Read Any Of These Leadership Books This Summer?

Eric Jacobson

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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Benefits of Debriefing

Strategy Driven

market) risk obsolescence or irrelevance. Keep your company fighter-pilot agile in any turbulent or changing market. Then there are the leadership, cultural, and intangible benefits that arise from the consistent practice of debriefing. It helps us to continually revise our assumptions about the market, economy, and world.

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Data Can Do for Change Management What It Did for Marketing

Harvard Business Review

Housing market price changes can be more accurately predicted from analysis of Google searches than by a team of expert real estate forecasters. There has been a rapid uptake in health care, consumer marketing, crime reduction, agriculture, scientific research, and many other areas.

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A Survey of How 1,000 CEOs Spend Their Day Reveals What Makes Leaders Successful

Harvard Business Review

Although the algorithm is completely agnostic, the classification it generates closely resembles John Kotter’s distinction between “managers” and “leaders.” The most common departments for CEOs to meet with are production (35% of time spent with others), marketing (22%), and finance (17%).

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