The Practical Leader

APRIL 18, 2012

In the past few months I’ve been asked by workshop participants and readers for my recommendations on organization improvement, leadership, or personal development books. I have read about 30 leadership books including Maxwell, Kouzes & Posner, Kotter, and Schein. I am going to get more of your books.

Review 53

Review Books Schein Kotter 53

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. This means gaining buy-in from stakeholders by developing a sense of urgency that will spark the initial motivation and get things moving.

Strategy 70

Strategy Kotter RASCI Motivation 70

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Inspired by John Kotter’s dual-operating structure model, we asked all of these employees to maintain their “day jobs” within the established hierarchy, while also using 5-10% of their time to work on fast-cycle, informal innovation projects across silos. More than 600 were selected. Extending the network.

Innovation 14

Innovation Company Agility Workshop 14