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Video Book Club: A Sense of Urgency

Next Level Blog

Posted by: Jon Latzer | June 29, 2010 at 01:44 PM Love Kotter's work. I also share my big take away from the book not it’s not just about the facts, it’s about something else. Conversely, I watch those that are constantly moving with a "sense of urgency" but don't seem to produce or get much accomplished. Good take on it.

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Book Reviews and My Recommended Reading List

The Practical Leader

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.

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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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Fostering Employee Innovation at a 150-Year-Old Company

Harvard Business Review

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.

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Data Can Do for Change Management What It Did for Marketing

Harvard Business Review

Retailers combine data on demographics and weather to predict sales and develop merchandising plans. When a change practitioner talks about data, typically that is qualitative information, generated by a root cause analysis workshop or similar. To date, change management has not been based on a data-driven model.