Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Every HR, OD professional, and management consultant should at the very least be aware of their existence, if not well-versed in their ideas and theories. A book that is a favorite among consultants. First, Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently (1999). Listed in no particular order.

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Change Starts Here

JUNE 3, 2014

You don’t have to be in or near the field of change management long before you hear a daunting statistic: 70% of change initiatives fail. It’s mentioned in passing as a fact in most change management books and articles nowadays. Is change management challenging? ” How do they know?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

In providing research and developing training programs for various large corporations about managing change, we find that the biggest stumbling block for employees from top-down is lack of buy-in. Top executives have the vision, but often fail to get buy-in from managers who have to carry out the change initiative.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Information overload is the management crisis of the 21stcentury. John Kotter, the renowned scholar on change management, suggests that successful change requires management to create opportunities for ‘short term wins,’ thereby repetitively reinforcing positive steps along the path to change. But how is this done?

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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. Doing so, we stumbled across a formula for accelerating organizational objectives while managing even higher levels of performance and engagement. Organizational transformation is notoriously difficult. Insight Center.

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