In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 28, 2012

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. At the risk of this blog appearing as an advertorial for Harvard, I’ll gladly admit that Harvard Business Review was my favorite management resource.

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Mentor Advertorial Kotter Hamel 228

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. Can't Get Enough Leadership ,

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Kotter eBook Agility Leadership Development 70

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2012

If you are a manager, these numbers should alarm you. Let your boss and people in other departments know about your interests and skills. If there are no opportunities for advancement, look for opportunities to increase skills that will help you with your next job. But the news is not good. Do you like your co-workers?

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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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Books Leadership Handbook Kotter 76

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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Books Leadership Handbook Kotter 50

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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Books Leadership Handbook Kotter 58

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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Books Handbook Kotter Leadership Pipeline 92

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 Kotter RASCI Motivation 70

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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Review Books Schein Kotter 53

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

The Forces of global change can render professional skill sets obsolete almost overnight. Information overload is the management crisis of the 21stcentury. Then there are the leadership, cultural, and intangible benefits that arise from the consistent practice of debriefing. market) risk obsolescence or irrelevance.

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Short-term Tools Learning-by-Doing Schein 64

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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Marketing Root Cause Analysis Management Supply Chain 8

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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Human Resources Talent Management Resources Ulrich 100

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Although the algorithm is completely agnostic, the classification it generates closely resembles John Kotter’s distinction between “managers” and “leaders.” And plenty of manager CEOs in our data set do run successful firms. Which CEO Type Is Better for Companies? Is One CEO Type Always Better?

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CEO Survey Succession Supply Chain 14

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.). Kotter’s book Accelerate.). Insight Center.

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Supply Chain Kotter Critical Success Factor Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

Management journals would not exist if managers were always perfect, so it’s no surprise that HBR has long been exploring the reasons behind manager incompetence and whose responsibility it is to compensate – the boss or the subordinate. This seems surprising since of course every manager is a subordinate as well.

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Kotter Follow-up Learning-by-Doing Course 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2015

It’s been almost 10 years since HBR published John Kotter’s classic article,” Why Transformation Efforts Fail.” ” Many managers don’t realize that the two are not the same. ” Many managers don’t realize that the two are not the same. The change management work focused on execution.

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Kotter Decentralization Business Model Engineering 8

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. 2: What skills, technologies, and existing data development practices do we have in place that could help kick-start a Big Data effort? 5: Can we manage the changes brought by Big Data?

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Kotter How To Technology Information 14

First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Creative Conspiracy: The New Rules of Breakthrough Collaboration Leigh Thompson This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking John Brockman, Editor Unrelenting Innovation: How to Build a Culture for Market Dominance Gerard [.].

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Blog Creativity Review Innovation 89

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Check out these new and forthcoming books from HBR Press: The Success Equation: Untangling Skill and Luck in Business, Sports, and Investing. Much of what we experience in life results from a combination of skill and luck," writes Michael Mauboussin. Kotter and Dan S. In Managing Global Innovation , INSEAD's Yves L.

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P&L Kotter Books Globalization 8

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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Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Crisis Kotter 8