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First Look: Leadership Books for June 2021

Leading Blog

Kotter with Vanessa Akhtar and Gaurav Gupta. Kotter, Vanessa Akhtar, and Gaurav Gupta explore how to create non-linear, dramatic change in your organization. Edward Newton. * * * Like us on Instagram and Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas.

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Leaders Can’t Execute Strategy

Great Leadership By Dan

Every university offering a business degree has on their faculty a professor teaching strategy but almost none have a professor teaching its execution. 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.

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Great Leadership Comes with a Counterintuitive Approach

Great Leadership By Dan

Recently, one of our clients began their corporate change initiative with a simple but very profound statement: “Trust is the foundation of speed and innovation.” And institutions of higher education, specifically MBA programs, often play a role by emphasizing thought and strategy over action. I could not agree more.

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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. Yet the most innovative companies—those that can face challenging times and emerge stronger than ever—often recognize a key truth that is missing in many traditional, hierarchical organizations.

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Buy-In – The Imperative Strategy

Strategy Driven

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. To mitigate the lack of buy-in, Johns Kotter created an 8-step change process model the first step of which is to Increase the Urgency for Change.

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How to Ignite and Sustain Organizational Growth

Skip Prichard

With the ever-changing dynamics of the workforce, the stewardship of organizational culture is just as important as strategy, talent, product development, or customer service. He helps companies build strong sustained revenue growth through by developing energizing office cultures. Simply put, culture drives performance.

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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. The book’s main framework is a circular diagram following these steps: Mission, Shared Assumptions, and Values <–> Alignment with Strategies and Methods of Execution. Expectations (e.g.

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