Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

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. They responded to a group discussion question, "Best Leadership Books -- What's Your Favorite?"

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 25, 2012

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. They responded to a group discussion question, "Best Leadership Books -- What's Your Favorite?"

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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. 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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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

It is vital to develop the capacity to learn from your environment. The Debrief Imperative : The Secret Tool That Is Transforming Businesses The World Over by William M. Fighter Pilots and Special Operations teams have discovered and used a secret to continuous improvement – a tool every enterprise can benefit from.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2014

The context we lead in requires nothing short of radical personal development. If you thought you were serious about it, Learn or Die will take you to a whole new level with tools, case studies, and insights that will challenge your commitment to learning. Leaders followers, and context form a system of leadership. Blog Post ).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2017

Retailers combine data on demographics and weather to predict sales and develop merchandising plans. These intangible factors like culture, leadership, and motivation do not yield easily to empirical analysis. The most popular managerial approach to change management is John Kotter’s eight-step model.

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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.” I recently met with the senior leadership team of a large technology company that had been successful because one unique product constituted 90% of its sales. The change affected hundreds of people.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2012

2: What skills, technologies, and existing data development practices do we have in place that could help kick-start a Big Data effort? The data architecture, data quality, and metadata skills and tools these teams provide can often be leveraged to support Big Data efforts.

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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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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.

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