Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

James Heskett and John Kotter found that organizations with strong corporate cultures realized over eleven years revenue growth of 682 percent, employment growth of 282 percent and stock price growth of 901 percent. As time passes, the trend is for companies to decrease their attention and awareness of their goals. ” -Larry Fink.

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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. Top executives have the vision, but often fail to get buy-in from managers who have to carry out the change initiative.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2017

One area so far relatively untouched is change management. The failure of major transformation projects to deliver the expected benefits is a well-documented phenomenon : many change programs simply do not achieve their business goals. A big obstacle is the change management profession itself (of which we are all proud members).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2012

The Big Data trend is as much about new solutions for managing and storing growing information volumes as it is about the data itself. Even with a good business case, politics and ownership issues can easily torpedo Big Data projects, particularly if they necessitate changes to organizational structures and business processes.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

To achieve that goal, however, we must innovate not only in terms of science and R&D, but also in how we run our business. Most importantly, cutting across all these initiatives, we created the network of senior and mid-level managers to connect and inspire people to get engaged in innovation. TheCrimsonMonkey/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

It can sometimes seem like magic when we get the right people together with the right attitude, motivated to work toward a common goal. To address these questions, Coty partnered with Kotter International to implement a broad global change management program. Kotter’s book Accelerate.). Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2012

For a detailed look at other ways to handle your supervisor, read the classic HBR article Managing Your Boss by John J. In fact, when you have been acting on your own, and even when you are acting with the approval of your boss, you are preceding just as successful serial entrepreneurs do: They take a small step toward their goal.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2016

While the popular press talks of stress as a negative to be avoided, seasoned managers know better. If you’ve been around the management block a time or two, you’ve probably also seen the other side of stress. This magic zone is what John Kotter referred to as the “Productive Range of Distress.”

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QAspire

JANUARY 1, 2012

Business ecosystem is rapidly changing – and as a student of personal and organizational change, I recently re-read Dr. John Kotter’s book (published in 2008) titled “A Sense of Urgency”. A sense of urgency is not an attitude that I must have a project team meeting today, but that meeting must accomplish something important today.”.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

Culture's all that invisible stuff that glues organizations together, as David Caldwell , my management professor at Santa Clara University, taught me many years ago. It includes things like norms of purpose, values, approach — the stuff that's hard to codify, hard to evaluate, and certainly hard to measure and therefore manage.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

The agency, which provides health care to approximately 9 million veterans at over 1,700 locations, had set a top-down goal to increase the percentage of veterans who were seen within 14 days of requesting an appointment. Measure performance carefully and manage with an eye on what’s most important to customers. In 2014, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Twenty years ago, John Kotter pegged the failure rate at 70% and the needle hasn’t moved much since. Doing so, we stumbled across a formula for accelerating organizational objectives while managing even higher levels of performance and engagement. Organizational transformation is notoriously difficult. Rounding and listening.

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