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Borderless jobs and agile structures: How to build a future-proof organisation

Chartered Management Institute

What they do not do well is identify the most important hazards and opportunities early enough, formulate creative strategic initiatives nimbly enough, and implement them fast enough.” – John Kotter, Harvard Business School Business disruption, societal upheaval and rapid technological shifts bring constant pressure for organisations to innovate.

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LeadershipNow 140: September 2018 Compilation

Leading Blog

Here are a selection of tweets from September 2018 that you might have missed: Empathy and creative thinking are valuable skills in the workplace, but they’re hard to teach by @Lyndagratton Frustrated or Focused - Leadership Tips for Managing Emotions by @davidmdye. An Interview with John Kotter on Urgency.

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LeadershipNow 140: November 2012 Compilation

Leading Blog

Change and Continuity - Mintzberg And Kotter Agree - You Must Manage Both by @profkjmoore. Seven Tips For Better Coaching by @steveroesler. Why Most Leadership Development Efforts Fail by @KevinEikenberry. When Trouble Hits —8 Ways to Develop Resilience, Options and “Falling Up” by @pdiscoveryuk. Doing Leadership.

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Great Leadership Comes with a Counterintuitive Approach

Great Leadership By Dan

Here’s a battle-tested tip: the next time you empower a team to find a solution to a complex business issue, encourage them to fail and fail fast. About the author: Shaun Spearmon is an engagement leader at Kotter International , a firm that helps leaders accelerate strategy implementation in their organizations.

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How to Get Executive Buy-In for Leadership Training

The Center For Leadership Studies

Getting buy-in from key stakeholders is one of the biggest challenges when implementing a leadership development program —especially if it’s a new program. This is especially true if leadership development is a new initiative at your company. Kotter and Lorne A. Using a common language can help when you present your ideas.

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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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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.