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.

Review 53

Review Books Schein Kotter 53

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

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. Practice in a mirror, check eye contact, and scan body language for distracting gestures.

Strategy 70

Strategy Kotter RASCI Motivation 70

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2017

When a change practitioner talks about data, typically that is qualitative information, generated by a root cause analysis workshop or similar. These intangible factors like culture, leadership, and motivation do not yield easily to empirical analysis. Subsequent research to validate this model have been unsuccessful.

Marketing 8

Marketing Root Cause Analysis Management Supply Chain 8