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Fast Change: The co-organization of Business

Great Leadership By Dan

Yes, certainly, there are more than a handful of organizations that manage not only to change, but to set the pace for everyone else. 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? They do more than cope.

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Leading Change – Lessons for New Leaders from Satya Nadella

Great Leadership By Dan

While not all the changes are easy –see last week’s announcement the company would cut 18,000 jobs – they are plotting a bold new course for what has traditionally been a more conservative organization. The question that likely occurs to many observers of the shifts at Microsoft is to ask “What is Nadella’s vision for change?”

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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. Are staff members empowered to test new ideas and report back to management on their successes, as part of helping the organization constantly adapt and improve?

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A Selection of Readings From The Core Masterclass

The Office Blend Blog

1 is setting — micro-nourishing one day, one hour, one minute at a time — an effective people-truly-first, innovate-or-die, excellence-or-bust corporate culture.” – Tom Peters. The ability of an organization to respond effectively in times of crisis is paramount. John Kotter. “CEO job No. This is simply more of that.

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Retain Your Top Performers

Marshall Goldsmith

But too often we overlook the profound impact these changes have on our organizations. The new work contract – where employees take responsibility for their own careers and corporations provide them with career-enhancing but impermanent opportunities – can be as difficult for organizations to manage as it is for individuals.

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5 Components of Charismatic Leadership

Skip Prichard

The difference is that the locus of power for disruptive leadership is usually institutional (based on coercion, rewards, or one’s position in the organization), while the main source of power of charismatic leaders is the person’s qualities (referent power). They share this characteristic with disruptive leaders. Jan-Benedict Steenkamp.

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How to Ignite and Sustain Organizational Growth

Skip Prichard

Yet, without the right culture, organizations cannot succeed short term, nor can they endure. With the ever-changing dynamics of the workforce, the stewardship of organizational culture is just as important as strategy, talent, product development, or customer service. You develop a first-class organization by winning hearts and minds.

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