Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

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. We must manage our human assets with the same rigor we devote to our financial assets.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

James Heskett and John Kotter found that organizations with strong corporate cultures realized over eleven years revenue growth of 682 percent, employment growth of 282 percent and stock price growth of 901 percent. Especially important is ongoing training for managers, for without their leadership, sustainment is nearly impossible.

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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.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Information overload is the management crisis of the 21stcentury. Whether it’s called reflection, feedback, or postmortem – debriefing after every project or event is not an option – it’s an imperative! Leadership must be observed and practiced in order to be mastered. But how is this done?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2017

One area so far relatively untouched is change management. The failure of major transformation projects to deliver the expected benefits is a well-documented phenomenon : many change programs simply do not achieve their business goals. A big obstacle is the change management profession itself (of which we are all proud members).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2012

The Big Data trend is as much about new solutions for managing and storing growing information volumes as it is about the data itself. Even with a good business case, politics and ownership issues can easily torpedo Big Data projects, particularly if they necessitate changes to organizational structures and business processes.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

The company’s Supply Chain Leadership Team had seen the pace of change for its group began to plateau. To address these questions, Coty partnered with Kotter International to implement a broad global change management program. Kotter’s book Accelerate.). Launch the team and start executing on the plan.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Twenty years ago, John Kotter pegged the failure rate at 70% and the needle hasn’t moved much since. Doing so, we stumbled across a formula for accelerating organizational objectives while managing even higher levels of performance and engagement. Organizational transformation is notoriously difficult. Rounding and listening.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2016

While the popular press talks of stress as a negative to be avoided, seasoned managers know better. If you’ve been around the management block a time or two, you’ve probably also seen the other side of stress. This magic zone is what John Kotter referred to as the “Productive Range of Distress.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Obama nominated Robert McDonald , an Army veteran and experienced executive who had honed his leadership skills during a 33-year career at Proctor and Gamble, to attempt the difficult turnaround. McDonald and his team’s approach was heavily influenced by John Kotter’s eight steps for effective organizational change.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

Culture's all that invisible stuff that glues organizations together, as David Caldwell , my management professor at Santa Clara University, taught me many years ago. It includes things like norms of purpose, values, approach — the stuff that's hard to codify, hard to evaluate, and certainly hard to measure and therefore manage.

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