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Borderless jobs and agile structures: How to build a future-proof organisation

Chartered Management Institute

What they do not do well is identify the most important hazards and opportunities early enough, formulate creative strategic initiatives nimbly enough, and implement them fast enough.” – John Kotter, Harvard Business School Business disruption, societal upheaval and rapid technological shifts bring constant pressure for organisations to innovate.

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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? Success is a lousy teacher. I recently read about a study that found successful companies to be far less likely than their weaker counterparts to pursue large-scale change.

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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? It’s a clear, simple drumbeat that his team can rally around.

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Great Leadership Comes with a Counterintuitive Approach

Great Leadership By Dan

A homogenous team can get moving quickly but huge benefits are frequently sacrificed as a consequence. Therefore, organizations are increasingly looking to cross-functional teams to address seemingly intractable problems within the organization. Failure – The Foundation of Success When is the last time you celebrated a success at work?

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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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Does a Mentor have to Breathe?

In the CEO Afterlife

In the early days of my 40 year business career, I was lucky to work under two gentlemen who instilled several critical success factors that guided me from Brand Manager to CEO. The latest thinking from the great strategists of the era – Michael Porter, Henry Ginsberg, Rosabeth Kanter, John Kotter. A client in need of innovation?

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The Biggest Challenges into Exciting Opportunities

Coaching Tip

But when everyone thinks that way, institutions and organizations don’t adapt, they don’t innovate, they don’t change rapidly enough and it gets us all into trouble. How ideas can come from anyone on the team no matter what their hierarchy level, and how this can be encouraged. Source : John Kotter: That's Not How We Do It Here!:

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