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Taking Another Look: Leading Minds on Reflection Part I

Leading Blog

John Kotter begins this series on reflection by talking about the need to develop a reflective habit and why we don’t. Are we delegating issues we should not be working on that could be better dealt with more locally in the organization? Kotter also stresses its importance as a continual learning tool. Correctable too.

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New Year’s Leadership Development Goals 2017 Edition

Great Leadership By Dan

Delegate more. I’ll do some serious self-reflection, or work with a coach or mentor, to figure out what’s causing me not to delegate. Once I get to the root cause, I will create a list of everything I do and make hard decisions on what to delegate, who to delegate to, how to do it, and by when. Is it my own ego?

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Creating A Customer-Centric Culture – The Disney Way

Tanveer Naseer

Kotter and James L. Who wouldn’t want to achieve results similar to those reported by Kotter and Heskett? As was presented in the study by Kotter and Heskett, financial rewards are often how such change is initiated. Twenty years ago, corporate or business culture sort of just happened…good, bad or indifferent. In 2005, J.

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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. “Effective leadership often involves delegating responsibilities and authority. Adaptability is absolutely critical today.

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Making a Move to Leadership

You're Not the Boss of Me

And besides, as a new “boss&# you’ll be able to get things done the way you want them done and delegate some things to others into the bargain. In either case, if you are thinking that not much has changed, except that you can now do some delegating, you would be wrong. Kotter on What Leaders Really Do., More later.

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How to Ignite and Sustain Organizational Growth

Skip Prichard

James Heskett and John Kotter found that organizations with strong corporate cultures realized over eleven years revenue growth of 682 percent, employment growth of 282 percent and stock price growth of 901 percent. It is not an afterthought or a nice-to-have plan that they delegate to human resources to develop.

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