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First Look: Leadership Books for June 2021

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Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in June 2021. Kotter with Vanessa Akhtar and Gaurav Gupta. Kotter, Vanessa Akhtar, and Gaurav Gupta explore how to create non-linear, dramatic change in your organization. Build your leadership library with these specials on over 28 titles.

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That’s Not How We Do It Here!

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And John Kotter and Holger Rathgeber’s That’s Not How We Do It Here! They begin to cope with their size by cementing in systems, structures and policies, that inadvertently kill speed, agility and innovation. Of Related Interest: An Interview with John Kotter on Urgency. does just that. Leading Change: Our Iceberg is Melting.

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Great Leadership Comes with a Counterintuitive Approach

Great Leadership By Dan

Lady GaGa) , with the implication that leadership is an intuitive skill. Great leadership is certainly associated with strong instincts and intuition, but intuition and instincts are shaped by training and more importantly, greatly augmented through experience. Failure is an essential part of the innovation process.

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Fast Change: The co-organization of Business

Great Leadership By Dan

Or they are serial product innovators making us “need” things we didn’t know we needed – anyone need another Swiffer with a disposable (and revenue-generating) attachment? Dr. John Kotter explains some of it in a video here – but there are a few things worth reinforcing. You structure this network of innovation deliberately to Leave.

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Success: A Breeding Ground for Complacency?

Great Leadership By Dan

Here's another exclusive guest post from John Kotter. I wrote that Washington suffered from a “complacency cancer,” that after 250 years as the nerve center of the most prosperous, innovative, militarily and economically advanced nation in modern history, success had gone to our political leaders’ heads. Success is a lousy teacher.

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Leading Change – Lessons for New Leaders from Satya Nadella

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How can new leaders at organizations large and small help stir things up in a positive way that produces new innovations, generates new energy and engages staff? About the author: Randy Ottinger is an Executive Vice President at Kotter International , a firm that helps leaders accelerate strategy implementation in their organizations.

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142: That’s Not How We Do It Here! — How to Stay Agile and Innovative as a Mature Company | with John Kotter

Engaging Leader

Most mature organizations have a built-in tendency to kill off anything agile, innovative, and entrepreneurial — which often is exactly what’s needed to stay ahead of today’s ever-increasing pace of change in the […]

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