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Leading (Personal) Change

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Change Management Self Leadership Workplace Issues A few months ago, I was reading John P. Kotter’s best selling book Leading Change as part of a group assignment in my workplace. Kotter’s eight-stage process for managing organizational change sparked lively discussion. But what is [.].

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The Best Leadership Books of 2014

Leading Blog

Kotter For most companies, the hierarchy is the singular operating system at the heart of the firm. Leaders Eat Last : Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don''t by Simon Sinek The title of the book— Leaders Eat Last —comes from a conversation with a Marine Corps general. Leaders followers, and context form a system of leadership.

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Motivating, Mentoring and Measuring – Leading Unfamiliar Organizations

General Leadership

Whether the leader grew-up in the organization or was transplanted into a new ecosystem, they can utilize sound leadership principles to guide the organization to success. The difference is the time it takes to build a framework upon which to hang those leadership principles in an unfamiliar organization. Motivating. As Lawrence J.

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Active Listening: the Key to Leadership Success

Great Leadership By Dan

Even the military has morphed their ideals on leadership roles, shifting away from the highest ranked official and instead citing the individual or group who knows the mission and territory the best. Effective listening skills, make it possible to select leadership and those responsible for success. This is leadership!

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Great Leadership Comes with a Counterintuitive Approach

Great Leadership By Dan

Lady GaGa) , with the implication that leadership is an intuitive skill. Great leadership is certainly associated with strong instincts and intuition, but intuition and instincts are shaped by training and more importantly, greatly augmented through experience. I wholeheartedly disagree. Trust isn’t a switch that you can just turn on.

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7 Elements of a Compelling Leadership Vision for Change

Great Leadership By Dan

This post was recently published at Smartblog on Leadership : Leading change starts with a compelling leadership vision for change. According to leadership expert John Kotter , a lack of leadership vision is one of the most common reasons why transformational change efforts fail. change leaders leadership vision'

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A Selection of Readings From the Core Masterclass

The Office Blend Blog

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. This is simply more of that. While the elements that contribute to organizational core stability (clarity of mission, etc.) Happy reading. Marla Gottschalk, HBR.

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