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Leading Change – Lessons for New Leaders from Satya Nadella

Great Leadership By Dan

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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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. change innovation John Kotter Russell Raath strategy'

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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. Yet the most innovative companies—those that can face challenging times and emerge stronger than ever—often recognize a key truth that is missing in many traditional, hierarchical organizations.

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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. are somewhat different — they work together to build healthy, productive work environments. John Kotter. “CEO job No. Happy reading.

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Retain Your Top Performers

Marshall Goldsmith

In his book New Rules, John Kotter notes that from 1974 through 1994, Harvard Business School graduates who worked for smaller corporations tended to make more money and have higher job satisfaction than their counterparts in large corporations. The CEO of a leading telecommunications company recently embarked on an innovative approach.

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5 Components of Charismatic Leadership

Skip Prichard

Leadership author John Kotter identifies the creation of a vision for change and communication of the change vision as the third and fourth steps in his model for effective change management. Charismatic leaders engage in innovative behaviors that run counter to the established norms of their organizations, industries, and/or societies.

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Book Review of “The Culture Cycle: How to Shape the Unseen Force that Transforms Performance”

The Practical Leader

John Kotter and James Heskett’s classic book, Corporate Culture and Performance , is an organization development classic. Results (Four Rs, innovation, growth, and profitability). Retention : Lower recruiting, hiring, training, and lost productivity costs because of greater employee loyalty. Organization Learning (e.g.

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