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. are somewhat different — they work together to build healthy, productive work environments. Management is (Still) Not Leadership.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 26, 2016

Kotter and James L. In 2016, 87 percent of respondents of Deloitte University Press’ Global Human Capital Trends identified “culture” as important to their organizations. An organization must be ready and capable of accepting a new set of values. Values represent the core of the organization or its “soul.” In 2005, J.

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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. Those are the ingredients of a positive culture, and they’re proven to boost productivity.

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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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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

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. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable (2002). Listed in no particular order. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (1989). By Stephen R.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

Yet, without the right culture, organizations cannot succeed short term, nor can they endure. With the ever-changing dynamics of the workforce, the stewardship of organizational culture is just as important as strategy, talent, product development, or customer service. You develop a first-class organization by winning hearts and minds.

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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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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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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

How do you harness it to make it work for your organization? This idea is supported by Harvard Business School Professor John Kotter, authority on leadership and change, who finds that in order to succeed, 75% of the company’s management, needs to ‘buy into’ the change. Business Improv !

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Organizations that fail to continuously revise assumptions about their operating environment (i.e. The Debrief Imperative is a culmination of over a decade of teaching and practice in Global 1000 organizations. First, there are the discrete, tangible products that emerge directly from the debrief process. But how is this done?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Millions worldwide have read and embraced John Kotter's ideas on change management and leadership. Freshly designed and with a new preface by Kotter, Leading Change is a true leadership classic. The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations. Kotter and Dan S.

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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.” The most common departments for CEOs to meet with are production (35% of time spent with others), marketing (22%), and finance (17%).

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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.). The Coty experience also informs case study examples in John P.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2015

It’s been almost 10 years since HBR published John Kotter’s classic article,” Why Transformation Efforts Fail.” “Change management” means implementing finite initiatives, which may or may not cut across the organization. Let me explain. The change management work focused on execution.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

We need more leaders at every level in every kind of organization — businesses, government, schools, neighborhood and professional associations, unions, religious entities, and charitable institutions. In today''s organizations, we need to unlock the leadership potential within so those who want to lead, get to.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

My colleagues and I at Bain & Company have been tracking this for forty years, and we have never seen companies losing their leadership positions as quickly as they are today. They can focus and simplify their organizations. A list of the top 20 banks today contains only seven that were on the list a decade ago. And for telecom.

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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. Many other experts, such as Senge and Kotter have certainly added to that understanding with complex and nuanced constructs, but Caldwell's invisible glue comment holds a truth.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2012

In the interest of managing data as a corporate asset, many business leaders have formed discrete Data Management organizations. If your company doesn't have an effective data management organization in place, adoption of Big Data technology will be a huge challenge. Define a "bite size" effort, and expand it once it's shown value.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2016

This magic zone is what John Kotter referred to as the “Productive Range of Distress.” If you believe there is too little stress on your team and that it will take a little more discomfort before your employees are in the productive range of distress, you have a variety of options to choose from.

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