First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 23, 2014

When Bill Lee and I wrote Organizing Change (San Francisco: Pfeiffer-Jossey Bass, 2003), we did so from a large-scale perspective. Our premise was that it is easier to consider change from a high-level such as a one that affects an entire organization, then, whittle it down to whatever level you want to use, such as a […].

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The Office Blend Blog

JANUARY 2, 2024

If you read my work, you are likely familiar with my stance on the internal stability of a team or organization. John Kotter. Dr. Marla Gottschalk is an Industrial/Organizational Psychologist who focuses on bringing core stability to people and organizations. This is simply more of that. Happy reading. Marla Gottschalk, HBR.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 10, 2012

Here's another exclusive guest post from John Kotter. More often than not, great accomplishments cause individuals and organizations to become comfortable with their way of doing things. More often than not, great accomplishments cause individuals and organizations to become comfortable with their way of doing things.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 24, 2014

While not all the changes are easy –see last week’s announcement the company would cut 18,000 jobs – they are plotting a bold new course for what has traditionally been a more conservative organization. Kotter Microsoft Randy Ottinger Satya Nadella' I predict this will be true for Nadella.

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Leadership Freak

JANUARY 5, 2017

Organizations need both disruption and stability to thrive. That’s Not How We Do it Here, John Kotter. Over-managed organizations… Continue reading → If you’re not learning, you’re dying. 5 insights I learned from top authors in 2016 #1.

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Leadership Freak

JANUARY 5, 2017

Organizations need both disruption and stability to thrive. That’s Not How We Do it Here, John Kotter. Over-managed organizations… Continue reading → If you’re not learning, you’re dying. 5 insights I learned from top authors in 2016 #1.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

So, whenever a leader or an organization adopts any new strategy, technology platform, methodology or approach, that adoption has to be driven by both a need and with leadership clarity. John Kotter was right; an atmosphere of urgency will create an atmosphere of exceptional or extraordinary achievement.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2016

A Story about How Organizations Rise and Fall--and Can Rise Again by John Kotter and Holger Rathgeber. Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in June. That's Not How We Do It Here! The Inevitable : Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

That makes Consider: Harnessing the Power of Reflective Thinking in Your Organization , one of the most important books you’ll read this year. Forrester asks, “What is the last document or strategy you can point to as a ‘product of reflection’ built with all parts of the organization and senior-level involvement?

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

John Kotter begins this series on reflection by talking about the need to develop a reflective habit and why we don’t. Are we delegating issues we should not be working on that could be better dealt with more locally in the organization? Kotter also stresses its importance as a continual learning tool. You are thinking.

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Coaching Tip

MAY 14, 2014

Our misunderstanding of this issue makes us believe that a management-driven hierarchy with competent executives at the top ought to be able to guide an organization to move faster, be more agile and thrive. Kotter: Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World. It can''t anymore. Source: John P.

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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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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 19, 2018

However, how do you assess leadership potential when a predetermined hierarchical organization already exists? Many of us have heard that a good leader surrounds themselves with brighter and stronger individuals. This concept is combated by leadership that is visible and communicative at all levels.

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Engaging Leader

AUGUST 15, 2016

Increasingly, large organizations are finding their competitive landscape changing so quickly that they’re unable to respond fast enough to survive and thrive.

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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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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. John Kotter. “CEO job No. Yet, this critical capability is not something that can materializes on demand. Happy reading.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 23, 2014

Therefore, organizations are increasingly looking to cross-functional teams to address seemingly intractable problems within the organization. Trust not only serves as the foundation for the speed organizations require to outperform the competition, but it is also the foundation of any prosperous relationship.

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Six Disciplines

MARCH 28, 2011

A few years back, change management guru, John Kotter, published his latest book, A Sense of Urgency. Kotter has written about urgency before. For a quick review, here's Kotters " Eight Steps To Transform Your Organization ": Establish a Sense of Urgency. it's also a topic we focus on a lot here at Six Disciplines.).

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LDRLB

AUGUST 18, 2010

Too often leaders are unsure of just how to unfreeze an organization and create change ready followers. Many leaders start by casting a grand vision of what the new organization looks like. If we overlay these two models, we see the first three stages of Kotter’s model providing insight on how to unfreeze an organization.

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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. It doesn’t change what the whole organization values and believes overnight.

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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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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 24, 2017

It’s essential for organizations to bridge the Strategy Execution Skills Gap by providing leaders with the new thinking and approach that is required to correct the high failure rate. John Kotter offers the “8 Step Process for Leading Change”. For example, Oracle has made 100 acquisitions during a recent five-year period.

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LDRLB

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

John Kotter is a Harvard Business School professor and prolific author on leadership and change. The bulk of Kotter’s work takes the form of scholarly articles and intellectual books. After years of research, Kotter published Leading Change. In it, he presents an 8 stage model for leading organizations through change.

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Management Craft

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

I like this post from John Kotter on his Forbes blog called, How to Retain the Heroes Within Your Workforce. I am not suggesting that you manufacture tasks that are not useful or in alignment with the organization's goals. Your organization needs their best work. Check it out. That would be irresponsible.

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Change Starts Here

JUNE 3, 2014

Interestingly, many people quote the 70% failure rate in John Kotter’s seminal HBR article, “Leading Change” from 1995, but the statistic just isn’t there. ” How do they know? ” Again, this is an estimate (albeit from one of the fathers of change management) and not a research-based statement. .”

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The Center For Leadership Studies

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Envision and describe what your organization will be like after the leadership training. Poor or nonexistent leadership causes your organization to lose high-value employees (who are difficult and expensive to replace). How would you (and your organization) measure the success/ROI of a leadership training program?

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Six Disciplines

APRIL 13, 2011

92% of organizations do not measure performance indicators.[5]. Norton, Harvard Business School Press, The Strategy-Focused Organization, 2001). [2] Norton, Harvard Business School Press, The Strategy-Focused Organization, 2001). [3] Norton, Harvard Business School Press, The Strategy-Focused Organization, 2001). [3]

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LDRLB

JUNE 6, 2011

John Kotter (not a LeaderLab contributor but we’d love to have him) wrote a great post called Throw Out Your Strategy? Kudos to Jennifer Miller for hosting this month’s post and always to Dan McCarthy for organizing this awesome monthly resource. Not So Fast.

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Great Results Team Building

JUNE 12, 2014

Every organization experiences change, and it is during times of change that people often need to be reminded of and reconnected to the significance of the goals that they are working toward and the strengths of the people they are working with to achieve those goals. “The rate of change is not going to slow down anytime soon. Helen Keller.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 31, 2017

I’ll learn to speak the “language” of strategy and apply these concepts to leading my organization. I’ll l earn from the classics : John Kotter, William Bridges, Peter Senge and others and apply these proven models and techniques to a significant change that I need to drive this year. Be a better listener. Lead Change.

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Ron Edmondson

DECEMBER 7, 2021

People need fresh visions for their organizations and their life. In closing, I’m reminded of this John Kotter quote: “Management is about coping with complexity. Its practices and procedures are largely a response to the emergence or large, complex organizations in the twentieth century.

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LDRLB

JUNE 6, 2011

” John Kotter (not a LDRLB contributor but we’d love to have him) wrote a great post called Throw Out Your Strategy? Kudos to Jennifer Miller for hosting this month’s post and always to Dan McCarthy for organizing this awesome monthly resource. Not So Fast.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

Yet, without the right culture, organizations cannot succeed short term, nor can they endure. Organizations can and must define the culture they desire and intentionally execute a well-thought out road map to shape their future. 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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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The difference is that the locus of power for disruptive leadership is usually institutional (based on coercion, rewards, or one’s position in the organization), while the main source of power of charismatic leaders is the person’s qualities (referent power). They share this characteristic with disruptive leaders. Jan-Benedict Steenkamp.

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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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LDRLB

JUNE 16, 2010

The defense mechanisms of individuals in the organization have to be bypassed and people need to be made change-ready. Most notably, John Kotter, a professor at Harvard Business School, developed his own model for leading change that involved eight steps or actions to be taken.

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