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Great Leadership Comes with a Counterintuitive Approach

Great Leadership By Dan

Maybe it was the conclusion of a big project, or a close to the fourth quarter of 2013. About the author: Shaun Spearmon is an engagement leader at Kotter International , a firm that helps leaders accelerate strategy implementation in their organizations. Now how about the last time you celebrated a failure?

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The Best Leadership Books of 2014

Leading Blog

Kotter For most companies, the hierarchy is the singular operating system at the heart of the firm. Related Interest: Best Leadership Books of 2013. Accelerate : Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World by John P. But the reality is, this system simply is not built for an environment where change has become the norm.

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