N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

So, whenever a leader or an organization adopts any new strategy, technology platform, methodology or approach, that adoption has to be driven by both a need and with leadership clarity. John Kotter was right; an atmosphere of urgency will create an atmosphere of exceptional or extraordinary achievement.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 24, 2014

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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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 10, 2012

Here's another exclusive guest post from John Kotter. More often than not, great accomplishments cause individuals and organizations to become comfortable with their way of doing things. More often than not, great accomplishments cause individuals and organizations to become comfortable with their way of doing things.

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Leadership Freak

JANUARY 5, 2017

Organizations need both disruption and stability to thrive. That’s Not How We Do it Here, John Kotter. Over-managed organizations… Continue reading → If you’re not learning, you’re dying. 5 insights I learned from top authors in 2016 #1.

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Leadership Freak

JANUARY 5, 2017

Organizations need both disruption and stability to thrive. That’s Not How We Do it Here, John Kotter. Over-managed organizations… Continue reading → If you’re not learning, you’re dying. 5 insights I learned from top authors in 2016 #1.

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Reflections on Charismatic Leadership. Management scholars Jay Conger and Rabindra Kanungo introduced a framework for charismatic leadership, which I use to reflect on the case studies of Alexander the Great and General Charles de Gaulle. Printed by permission. . Jan-Benedict Steenkamp. This has two important implications.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Peter Senge, founder of the Society of Organizational Learning and senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, once observed, “Most managers do not reflect carefully on their actions.” Most managers are too busy “running” to reflect. We don’t really see the reality we face.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 31, 2017

It’s also a good time to set leadership development goals, either as part of a formal development planning process, or just because it’s a proven way to continuously improve as a leader. I’ll learn to speak the “language” of strategy and apply these concepts to leading my organization. Be a better listener. Become a better negotiator.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Getting buy-in from key stakeholders is one of the biggest challenges when implementing a leadership development program —especially if it’s a new program. For the most impact, executives should model the leadership skills they want to see from others on a daily basis. Include Executives in the Design Process. Get on the Same Page.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 18, 2016

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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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 26, 2016

Kotter and James L. Heskett published their 10-year research project – “ Corporate Culture and Performance ” – in which they compared companies that intentionally managed their cultures to similar companies that did not. Here are some of their findings: Managed Their Cultures Revenue growth of 682 percent. In 2005, J.

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The Office Blend Blog

MARCH 31, 2020

The ability of an organization to respond effectively in times of crisis is paramount. If you read my work, you are likely familiar with my stance on the internal stability of a team or organization. Management is (Still) Not Leadership. John Kotter. John Kotter. “CEO job No. This is simply more of that.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 10, 2018

If you Google the word leadership you can get about 479,000,000 results, each definition as unique as an individual leader. Here are 100 of the best ways to define leadership–choose the ones that fits best for you. Then people will appreciate your leadership.” This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.”

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LDRLB

JUNE 6, 2011

The monthly Leadership Development Carnival is out once more and once more features LeaderLab contributors David Burkus and Bret Simmons. Bret Simmons ‘ Leadership Guru Reality Check warns us to be careful of well-packaged leadership “experts,&# who might not have anything real to offer. Not So Fast.

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Coaching Tip

JUNE 1, 2016

Backed by 40 years of research, “THAT’S NOT HOW WE DO IT HERE: A Story about How Organizations Rise and Fall—and Can Rise Again,” tackles the eternal tension between management and leadership and the reasons for the rise and fall of organizations. Secrets to gleaning “buy-in” from top leadership. Related articles.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

But the majority of organizations seems to muddle through, now and then halfheartedly embarking on a culture project where they define their core values, vision, and mission statement – and then return to business as usual. You’re a new manager, and you’d better fit in! ” His heart was pounding.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 24, 2017

Change management, which is taught, has been the default approach for strategy execution, but it is a subset of execution and more importantly does not work for implementing corporate strategy. John Kotter offers the “8 Step Process for Leading Change”. I call this the “Strategy Execution Skills Gap”. Kaplan and David P.

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LDRLB

JUNE 6, 2011

The monthly Leadership Development Carnival is out once more and once more features LDRLB contributors David Burkus and Bret Simmons. Bret Simmons ‘ Leadership Guru Reality Check warns us to be careful of well-packaged leadership “experts,” who might not have anything real to offer. Not So Fast.

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Ron Edmondson

DECEMBER 7, 2021

I have been a student of leadership and a practicing leader for over 30 years and this time in which we live has produced the most conducive environments for leaders to thrive. Leadership is designed for this scenario. You can manage that. Trust is the foundation of all good leadership. Risk abounds. Conflict is divisive.

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LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Servant leadership is a belief in and practice of “leadership that places the good of those led over the self-interest of the leader, emphasizing leader behaviors that focus on follower development and de-emphasizing glorification of the leader” (Hale and Fields, 2007, p.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Perhaps a book that will help you improve your leadership skills. A couple years ago, members of five groups on the professional social media web site LinkedIn voluntarily recommended their favorite books about leadership. They responded to a group discussion question, "Best Leadership Books -- What''s Your Favorite?"

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

Yet, without the right culture, organizations cannot succeed short term, nor can they endure. Organizations can and must define the culture they desire and intentionally execute a well-thought out road map to shape their future. You develop a first-class organization by winning hearts and minds. Would you briefly touch on them?

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

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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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Perhaps a book that will help you improve your leadership skills. Awhile back, members of five groups on the professional social media web site LinkedIn voluntarily recommended their favorite books about leadership. They responded to a group discussion question, "Best Leadership Books -- What''s Your Favorite?"

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LDRLB

JUNE 16, 2010

In the 1950s Kurt Lewin created a new discipline of management: change management. Managers and leaders had always been tasked with instigating and facilitating transitions, but Lewin’s work represented the first well-researched theoretical model describing the change process. Leadership evidence-based management lewin'

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Perhaps a book that will help you improve your leadership skills. Awhile back, members of five groups on the professional social media web site LinkedIn voluntarily recommended their favorite books about leadership. They responded to a group discussion question, "Best Leadership Books -- What's Your Favorite?"

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The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 24, 2011

John Kotter and James Heskett’s classic book, Corporate Culture and Performance , is an organization development classic. As change tsunamis relentlessly sweep the globe, adaptive organizations are getting stronger and unadaptive ones are being washed out to sea. Organization Learning (e.g. Expectations (e.g.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 25, 2012

Perhaps a book that will help you improve your leadership skills. Awhile back, members of five groups on the professional social media web site LinkedIn voluntarily recommended their favorite books about leadership. They responded to a group discussion question, "Best Leadership Books -- What's Your Favorite?"

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 18, 2012

In the past few months I’ve been asked by workshop participants and readers for my recommendations on organization improvement, leadership, or personal development books. The theme is Executive global leadership. I have read about 30 leadership books including Maxwell, Kouzes & Posner, Kotter, and Schein.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

In providing research and developing training programs for various large corporations about managing change, we find that the biggest stumbling block for employees from top-down is lack of buy-in. Top executives have the vision, but often fail to get buy-in from managers who have to carry out the change initiative. Business Improv !

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Organizations that fail to continuously revise assumptions about their operating environment (i.e. Information overload is the management crisis of the 21stcentury. The Debrief Imperative is a culmination of over a decade of teaching and practice in Global 1000 organizations. market) risk obsolescence or irrelevance.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2014

In order to reliably maintain an organization nothing beats a well-organized and well-developed hierarchy. John Kotter provides that extra something we need in Accelerate (XLR8). He writes that management-driven hierarchies are “still absolutely necessary to make organizations work.”

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You're Not the Boss of Me

APRIL 19, 2009

And, while there are many people and organizations working hard at creating more collaborative working environments, I suspect there are just as many digging in their heels and clinging to their pedestals with the tenacity of a dog with a bone. Well first, making change happen in any organization is about influence, not control.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2014

We must be creative and innovative in our organizations but perhaps more importantly, in working on ourselves. Learn or Die : Using Science to Build a Leading-Edge Learning Organization by Edward D. Learn or Die : Using Science to Build a Leading-Edge Learning Organization by Edward D. A S LEADERS we must learn and grow.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2017

One area so far relatively untouched is change management. The combination of predictive analytics, large data sets, and the processing power of today’s computers is starting to transform change management. But before that can happen, we have to understand why data has failed to catch on in change management to date.

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Every HR, OD professional, and management consultant should at the very least be aware of their existence, if not well-versed in their ideas and theories. It is hands-down the most popular leadership book of all time. He demonstrates that the ability to build trust is THE key leadership competency of the new global economy.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2011

In fact, I would go so far as to say reading is simply a necessity if you’re serious about leadership. The list below (in no particular order) is comprised of leadership lessons from Ancient History, US History, Religious History, Military History, and yes, I threw in a few of my favorite business business classics as well.

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