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LeadershipNow 140: September 2018 Compilation

Leading Blog

Here are a selection of tweets from September 2018 that you might have missed: Empathy and creative thinking are valuable skills in the workplace, but they’re hard to teach by @Lyndagratton Frustrated or Focused - Leadership Tips for Managing Emotions by @davidmdye. An Interview with John Kotter on Urgency.

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Success: A Breeding Ground for Complacency?

Great Leadership By Dan

Here's another exclusive guest post from John Kotter. Then, communicate that opportunity to your workers, keeping each of the following tips in mind: • Appeal to the head and the heart. Kotter is the chief innovation officer of Kotter International , a firm that helps leaders accelerate strategy implementation in their organizations.

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LeadershipNow 140: November 2012 Compilation

Leading Blog

Change and Continuity - Mintzberg And Kotter Agree - You Must Manage Both by @profkjmoore. Seven Tips For Better Coaching by @steveroesler. Doing Leadership. Part 1 of 6 by @Mark_Sanborn. Read " The Art of Receiving " by @LollyDaskal. The Many Faces of Greed by @FSonnenberg. jamesstrock: Lincoln Thanksgiving Proclamation.

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Great Leadership Comes with a Counterintuitive Approach

Great Leadership By Dan

Here’s a battle-tested tip: the next time you empower a team to find a solution to a complex business issue, encourage them to fail and fail fast. About the author: Shaun Spearmon is an engagement leader at Kotter International , a firm that helps leaders accelerate strategy implementation in their organizations.

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How to Get Executive Buy-In for Leadership Training

The Center For Leadership Studies

Remember that tip about optimizing your resume by incorporating key words from the job description (that way, your resume would be more likely to get past the company’s resume scanning software)? Kotter and Lorne A. Using a common language can help when you present your ideas. How can you address those concerns?

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Buy-In – The Imperative Strategy

Strategy Driven

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. Here are a few more tips: Present information in small chunks, and check in with the audience.

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Best Leadership Books To Read In 2015

Eric Jacobson

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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