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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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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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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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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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. Raising urgency is the first of his eight-steps for successful organizational change.(it's it's also a topic we focus on a lot here at Six Disciplines.). Communicate the Vision.

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Change Starts Here

JUNE 3, 2014

” One quote that never seems to be mentioned is this follow up in 1995, where Michael Hammer said: “In Reengineering the Corporation , we estimated that between 50 and 70 percent of reengineering efforts were not successful in achieving the desired breakthrough performance. .” ” How do they know? .”

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Business Improv: Experiential Learning Exercises to Train Employees to Handle Every Situation with Success by Val and Sarah Gee The secret to business growth is right before your eyes – it’s the creativity and innovation percolating in each one of your employees every minute of every day. Business Improv !

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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). Selling might get you the go-ahead to proceed, but it’s not going to get you the type of buy-in you need to make your leadership training efforts a success. Kotter and Lorne A. APPLICATION CHALLENGE.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

Yet, without the right culture, organizations cannot succeed short term, nor can they endure. With the ever-changing dynamics of the workforce, the stewardship of organizational culture is just as important as strategy, talent, product development, or customer service. You develop a first-class organization by winning hearts and minds.

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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). Oprah Winfrey is a very successful and charismatic businesswoman. Be Smarter!

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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. Setting Expectations.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 10, 2018

“Successful leadership is leading with the heart, not just the head. ” –John Kotter. Good leadership, whether formal or informal, is helping other people rise to their full potential while accomplishing the mission and goals of the organization. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.”

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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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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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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 11, 2011

Change the Culture, Change the Game: The Breakthrough Strategy for Energizing Your Organization and Creating Accountability for Results Roger Connors and Tom Smith Portfolio/The Penguin Group (2011) A comprehensive, cohesive, and cost-effective methodology to achieve breakthrough results In Leading Change, James O’Toole suggests that much (most?)

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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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Yet we still know fairly little about how CEOs behave day-to-day and how their behavior relates to the success or failure of the companies they run. Although the algorithm is completely agnostic, the classification it generates closely resembles John Kotter’s distinction between “managers” and “leaders.”

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You're Not the Boss of Me

APRIL 19, 2009

And, while there are many people and organizations working hard at creating more collaborative working environments, I suspect there are just as many digging in their heels and clinging to their pedestals with the tenacity of a dog with a bone. Well first, making change happen in any organization is about influence, not control.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Organizations that fail to continuously revise assumptions about their operating environment (i.e. The Debrief Imperative is a culmination of over a decade of teaching and practice in Global 1000 organizations. Accelerate performance… learn and leverage this secret tool to organizational success. But how is this done?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Companies such as Borders and RIM have recognized the need for strategic change, but couldn't drive the organizational change needed to sustain business success. But the old ways of setting and implementing strategy are no longer adequate.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

” Our solution – one transferable to other organizations pursuing innovation – has been to create an agile network of volunteer ambassadors and coaches throughout the company who have taken collective responsibility for making innovation happen and steering our organizational culture in the right direction.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

Would shareholders of Kodak — which had some of the earliest digital photography technology — agree that its destruction made evolutionary sense, or would they echo Harvard Professor John Kotter's remark that it was the result of "complacency"? They can focus and simplify their organizations.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

To address these questions, Coty partnered with Kotter International to implement a broad global change management program. The results helped mobilize a significant part of the organization: people at all levels and functions teamed up to generate new revenues, cut costs, increase productivity, and enhance quality. Is there a balance?

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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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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2011

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. If you need help in aligning vision, values, strategy, tactics, expectations, and outcomes then this book is for you. That said, this rule doesn’t apply to professor Kotter. EntreLeadership - Most people think of Dave Ramsey as a commentator on personal financial advice.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

There are two basic kinds of energy in organizations. Instead it can create a panic, with all the obvious negative consequences — stressing people out and eventually draining an organization of the very energy leaders wanted to generate. No organization needs that kind of negative energy. What to do?

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman of the Gallup Organization present the findings of an extensive research undertaking involving over 80,000 managers in over 400 companies – the most comprehensive analysis of employee engagement done in the world. First, Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently (1999).

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

Sometimes, it seems they've always loomed large: for decades, Michael Porter has been synonymous with strategy, and John Kotter with change management. Malcolm Gladwell references their experience in his famous "10,000 hours" argument in Outliers: The Story of Success.)

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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. The organization had a strong community tradition and over 4,500 talented employees. Within a few years, we had dramatically turned around the organization’s finances, performance measures, and market share.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

Culture's all that invisible stuff that glues organizations together, as David Caldwell , my management professor at Santa Clara University, taught me many years ago. Many other experts, such as Senge and Kotter have certainly added to that understanding with complex and nuanced constructs, but Caldwell's invisible glue comment holds a truth.

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