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Success: A Breeding Ground for Complacency?

Great Leadership By Dan

Here's another exclusive guest post from John Kotter. Great advice on how to battle "complacency cancer": Success: A Breeding Ground for Complacency? Success is a lousy teacher. I recently read about a study that found successful companies to be far less likely than their weaker counterparts to pursue large-scale change.

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Borderless jobs and agile structures: How to build a future-proof organisation

Chartered Management Institute

What they do not do well is identify the most important hazards and opportunities early enough, formulate creative strategic initiatives nimbly enough, and implement them fast enough.” – John Kotter, Harvard Business School Business disruption, societal upheaval and rapid technological shifts bring constant pressure for organisations to innovate.

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Leading Change – Lessons for New Leaders from Satya Nadella

Great Leadership By Dan

Nadella, by contrast, set a strong direction from day one, clearly laying out a destination in his focus on “mobile-first, cloud-first” technologies. It’s a clear, simple drumbeat that his team can rally around.

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Buy-In – The Imperative Strategy

Strategy Driven

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.

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How to Avoid the Big Data "Gotcha's"

Harvard Business Review

The question on many business leaders' minds is this: Does the potential for accelerating existing business processes warrant the enormous cost associated with technology adoption, project ramp up, and staff hiring and training that accompany Big Data efforts? Know what success looks like, and put the measures in place.

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How Coty Reinvigorated Its Supply Chain

Harvard Business Review

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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We Still Don’t Know the Difference Between Change and Transformation

Harvard Business Review

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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