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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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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? Kotter is the chief innovation officer of Kotter International , a firm that helps leaders accelerate strategy implementation in their organizations.

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First Engage Yourself: 7 Ways to Increase Your Own Engagement and Satisfaction

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

This same advice holds for couch potatoes. John Gabarro and John Kotter give good advice in their Harvard Business Review article Managing Your Boss. Engagement is about discretionary time, not about all of your time. Don’t let your life revolve totally around work. Find other interests you enjoy.

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5 Components of Charismatic Leadership

Skip Prichard

Leadership author John Kotter identifies the creation of a vision for change and communication of the change vision as the third and fourth steps in his model for effective change management. “Charismatic leaders are essentially opposed to the status quo and strive to change it.” –Jan-Benedict Jan-Benedict Steenkamp.

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Tuesday Time Machine: Motivating, Mentoring and Measuring

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. From Our Early Files: Originally Published. 24 Feb 2014. “Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.” Patton, Jr.

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Bad Bosses

Harvard Business Review

In this episode of HBR’s advice podcast, Dear HBR: , cohosts Alison Beard and Dan McGinn answer your questions with the help of Moshe Cohen , a senior lecturer at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business. Kotter — “You are not going to change either your basic personality structure or that of your boss.

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Making Change Happen When You're Not The Boss | You're Not the.

You're Not the Boss of Me

And that advice is worth its weight in gold. Some of my favorite readings on the topics you touched upon are “Leading Up&# by Michael Useem and “Leading Change&# by John Kotter. John Kotter is one of my particular favorites. Thanks for coming by Reply Joe Williams April 21, 2009 at 2:10 am Enjoyed your post, Gwyn.

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