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Success: A Breeding Ground for Complacency?

Great Leadership By Dan

Here's another exclusive guest post from John Kotter. Great advice on how to battle "complacency cancer": Success: A Breeding Ground for Complacency? Kotter is the chief innovation officer of Kotter International , a firm that helps leaders accelerate strategy implementation in their organizations.

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3 Ways Leaders Can Help Bring Great Ideas To Life

Tanveer Naseer

The following is a guest piece by Kotter International President, Russell Raath on behalf of The Economist Executive Education Navigator. How often have you heard the phrase “that’s not how we do it here” uttered in your workplace? How to do this? That truth is that great ideas don’t only come from senior management.

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How to Ignite and Sustain Organizational Growth

Skip Prichard

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. Companies with a healthy culture gain a positive reputation, not only among employees, but also with customers and the market.

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Leaders Can’t Execute Strategy

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Robin Speculand: Leaders across the world have been taught how to plan but not how to execute. 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. Kaplan and David P.

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How Healthy Is Your Organization’s Culture?

Tanveer Naseer

Culture happens where you are: right before your eyes if you know how to see. Some companies “magically” have great cultures induced by heroic leaders and, thus, dominate their markets. Based on both research and practice, you’ll see how to engage your co-workers with Interaction Interventions or Change Circles.

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Retain Your Top Performers

Marshall Goldsmith

We, as leaders, still understand little of how to retain essential high performers in turbulent times. We, as leaders, still understand little of how to retain essential high performers in turbulent times. Leaders can no longer afford to let the vagaries of the job market determine who leaves and who stays. Five Trends .

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 2/4/13)

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I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Creative Conspiracy: The New Rules of Breakthrough Collaboration Leigh Thompson This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking John Brockman, Editor Unrelenting Innovation: How to Build a Culture for Market Dominance Gerard [.].

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