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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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There Is No Time To Hurry Up And Wait

N2Growth Blog

Chair, Organizational Development, N2Growth. So, whenever a leader or an organization adopts any new strategy, technology platform, methodology or approach, that adoption has to be driven by both a need and with leadership clarity. Follow me on Twitter @SkippersBiz. Photo by Ted Etyan and edited by N2Growth.

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LeadershipNow 140: September 2018 Compilation

Leading Blog

Three Strategies to Encourage Good Mental Health in the Workplace by @KellererUlrich. The Difference Between Mission Vision Purpose Strategy and Goals by @JesseLynStoner. An Interview with John Kotter on Urgency. Would You Do Something Unethical If You Could Get Away with It? by @FSonnenberg.

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New Year’s Leadership Development Goals 2017 Edition

Great Leadership By Dan

It’s also a good time to set leadership development goals, either as part of a formal development planning process, or just because it’s a proven way to continuously improve as a leader. I’ll learn to speak the “language” of strategy and apply these concepts to leading my organization. Develop my team. Delegate more.

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Motivating, Mentoring and Measuring – Leading Unfamiliar Organizations

General Leadership

Rather than flying F-15s , I was in charge of flight simulators, contract negotiations and syllabus development. As John Kotter wrote in his article Accelerate! , “Communicate the vision and the strategy to create buy-in and attract a growing volunteer army.” I was in charge but not really sure which way to steer.

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June 2011 Leadership Development Carnival

LDRLB

The monthly Leadership Development Carnival is out once more and once more features LeaderLab contributors David Burkus and Bret Simmons. John Kotter (not a LeaderLab contributor but we’d love to have him) wrote a great post called Throw Out Your Strategy? Not So Fast.