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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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 18, 2016

The following is a guest piece by Kotter International President, Russell Raath on behalf of The Economist Executive Education Navigator. Are staff members empowered to test new ideas and report back to management on their successes, as part of helping the organization constantly adapt and improve?

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 26, 2016

Kotter and James L. Heskett published their 10-year research project – “ Corporate Culture and Performance ” – in which they compared companies that intentionally managed their cultures to similar companies that did not. Here are some of their findings: Managed Their Cultures Revenue growth of 682 percent. In 2005, J.

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CO2

AUGUST 14, 2017

And Kotter International determined that, on average, 70% of new, large-scale strategic initiatives fall short of their goal, as did a similar McKinsey & Company 2009 study. These are pretty sobering statistics, given all the time and effort you and your management team likely put into the preparation of your strategic plan.

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CO2

AUGUST 14, 2017

And Kotter International determined that, on average, 70% of new, large-scale strategic initiatives fall short of their goal, as did a similar McKinsey & Company 2009 study. These are pretty sobering statistics, given all the time and effort you and your management team likely put into the preparation of your strategic plan.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

If you don’t have full buy-in, your training won’t be a success (if it even gets off the ground, that is). Clearly define your goals and make sure you link them with actual business results that the executive team deems important. How would you (and your organization) measure the success/ROI of a leadership training program?

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Next Level Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

Posted by: Jon Latzer | June 29, 2010 at 01:44 PM Love Kotter's work. The Next Level Find out what insiders know about executive success in Scott Eblin’s new and expanded book, The Next Level: What Insiders Know About Executive Success. Good take on it. Your comment has not yet been posted. Click Here.

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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. Source : John Kotter: That's Not How We Do It Here!:

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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. Left to its own devices, culture often bubbles up negatively, hurting the growth and success of the company.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Not surprisingly, many well-known leadership book authors made the list, such as authors: Drucker Kotter Maxwell Welch Interestingly, the discussion thread, particularly within the Linked 2 Leadership group of LinkedIn, generated debate about the value and quality of some of the book recommendations. Top Books About Leadership.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 10, 2018

“Successful leadership is leading with the heart, not just the head. ” –John Kotter. “Leadership is the process of persuasion or example by which an individual (or leadership team) induces a group to pursue objectives held by the leader or shared by the leader and his or her followers.”–John

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LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

If you think your employees will go above and beyond the call of duty to impress your customers when they are disgusted with you and your management team, then you are living in La La Land. You are going to have to enable your managers and employees to practice servant leadership. 115), I’d recommend the following: 1.

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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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Eric Jacobson

MAY 25, 2012

Not surprisingly, many well-known leadership book authors made the list, such as authors: Drucker Kotter Maxwell Welch Interestingly, the discussion thread, particularly within the Linked 2 Leadership group of LinkedIn, generated debate about the value and quality of some of the book recommendations.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Not surprisingly, many well-known leadership book authors made the list, such as authors: Drucker Kotter Maxwell Welch Interestingly, the discussion thread, particularly within the Linked 2 Leadership group of LinkedIn, generated debate about the value and quality of some of the book recommendations. Top Books About Leadership.

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Not surprisingly, many well-known leadership book authors made the list, such as authors: Drucker Kotter Maxwell Welch Interestingly, the discussion thread, particularly within the Linked 2 Leadership group of LinkedIn, generated debate about the value and quality of some of the book recommendations.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Information overload is the management crisis of the 21stcentury. Fighter Pilots and Special Operations teams have discovered and used a secret to continuous improvement – a tool every enterprise can benefit from. Accelerate performance… learn and leverage this secret tool to organizational success. Duke and James D.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2017

Housing market price changes can be more accurately predicted from analysis of Google searches than by a team of expert real estate forecasters. One area so far relatively untouched is 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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You're Not the Boss of Me

APRIL 19, 2009

You’re Not the Boss of Me Skip to content Home About Me About This Blog ← Are You Really A Team Player? Even if you are the Chief Cook and Bottle Washer of your organization, making a success of change almost always means convincing others that it is a good idea. John Kotter is one of my particular favorites.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Its success confirmed the power of an informal network for shifting behaviors in our large company. The first priority was to inspire people with stories of successful internal innovators at Bayer. A manager might be struggling with an overly complex process or a new digital competitor. Building an agile network.

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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. How can we as leaders help our front-line teams take more action to innovate and improve how work gets done? Kotter’s book Accelerate.). Kotter’s book Accelerate.). Allocate budget for a team.

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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.” ” And although his suggestions for how to improve the odds have been widely accepted, the success rate of major corporate change programs remains essentially unchanged — it still hovers at 30%.

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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. In the interest of managing data as a corporate asset, many business leaders have formed discrete Data Management organizations. Know what success looks like, and put the measures in place.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2011

The Essential Drucker - Peter Drucker was the most noted management thinker of his time. This book combines several of his best pieces in one volume, and is a must read for anyone looking to understand organizational, operational, or cultural management theory. That said, this rule doesn’t apply to professor Kotter.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

When I'm advising start-up teams nowadays, I ask a lot of questions around those three areas. Quite often, the teams I'm talking with think culture is some woo-woo stuff that doesn't make any difference in the end, or even if they think it does matter, they have an excruciatingly hard time describing what theirs is.

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QAspire

JANUARY 1, 2012

Business ecosystem is rapidly changing – and as a student of personal and organizational change, I recently re-read Dr. John Kotter’s book (published in 2008) titled “A Sense of Urgency”. Critically important means challenges that are central to success or survival, winning or losing. Now means making real progress every single day.

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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. While a desperate need for change and organizational performance improvement may be obvious to the top team, staff can view that premise as fundamentally flawed. Unlocking the power of purpose through teams. Insight Center.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 11, 2012

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS The Pumpkin Plan: A Simple Strategy to Grow a Remarkable Business in Any Field Mike Michalowicz HBR Guide to Persuasive Presentations Nancy Duarte Freedom, Inc.: Free Your Employees and Let Them Lead Your Business to Higher [.].

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