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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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 24, 2014

Many of these shifts, and the reasons behind them, are unveiled in Nadella’s recent open strategy memo to staff. Nadella, by contrast, set a strong direction from day one, clearly laying out a destination in his focus on “mobile-first, cloud-first” technologies. Kotter Microsoft Randy Ottinger Satya Nadella'

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 10, 2012

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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Coaching Tip

MAY 14, 2014

We are in the midst of a storm that has been increasing in intensity for decades, driven by advancing technology and global integration. It''s about creating a vision, empowering and inspiring people to want to achieve the vision , and enabling them to do so with energy and speed through an effective strategy. No company is immune.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

This idea is supported by Harvard Business School Professor John Kotter, authority on leadership and change, who finds that in order to succeed, 75% of the company’s management, needs to ‘buy into’ the change. You just finished reading Buy-In - The Imperative Strategy ! for employees of a large government agency.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

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? Some organizations he has studied have adopted a no internal e-mail Friday policy and other ways to temporarily disconnect from technology. Consider isn’t a fad.

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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"? Markets change; technology evolves. Root it out wherever you find it.

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