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Leaders Can’t Execute Strategy

Great Leadership By Dan

Every university offering a business degree has on their faculty a professor teaching strategy but almost none have a professor teaching its execution. This has left a skills gap among today’s leaders that heavily contributes to the downfall of company attempts to execute their strategy, resulting in loss of market and shareholder value.

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Leading Change – Lessons for New Leaders from Satya Nadella

Great Leadership By Dan

Many of these shifts, and the reasons behind them, are unveiled in Nadella’s recent open strategy memo to staff. Now, he’s tackling the second piece of the puzzle with his open memo on Microsoft’s strategy, where Nadella lays out the numerous tactical changes he has in mind to reach that destination.

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Success: A Breeding Ground for Complacency?

Great Leadership By Dan

Here's another exclusive guest post from John Kotter. Here are some questions you can ask to determine whether complacency has set in among your employees: • Are team conversations inwardly focused, and not about new markets, emerging technologies or potential competitors? • Success is a lousy teacher.

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Does a Mentor have to Breathe?

In the CEO Afterlife

Strategy. The latest thinking from the great strategists of the era – Michael Porter, Henry Ginsberg, Rosabeth Kanter, John Kotter. I came up through marketing; quite honestly, during my years in marketing I hadn’t given much thought to HR. Here are the benefits I garnered from a decade of prolific reading: 1.

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3 Ways Leaders Can Help Bring Great Ideas To Life

Tanveer Naseer

The following is a guest piece by Kotter International President, Russell Raath on behalf of The Economist Executive Education Navigator. The idea that saves the business $10 million may come from a production line supervisor; the concept that opens up an entirely new market for your products might come from a junior sales rep.

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5 Components of Charismatic Leadership

Skip Prichard

In marketing, this idea is used in “purpose branding”—how a brand can change the world for the better. Leadership author John Kotter identifies the creation of a vision for change and communication of the change vision as the third and fourth steps in his model for effective change management. Jan-Benedict Steenkamp. His vision was—.

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