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First Look: Leadership Books for June 2021

Leading Blog

Kotter with Vanessa Akhtar and Gaurav Gupta. Kotter, Vanessa Akhtar, and Gaurav Gupta explore how to create non-linear, dramatic change in your organization. Upstanding : How Company Character Catalyzes Loyalty, Agility, and Hypergrowth by Frank A.

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3 Ways Leaders Can Help Bring Great Ideas To Life

Tanveer Naseer

The following is a guest piece by Kotter International President, Russell Raath on behalf of The Economist Executive Education Navigator. Yet the most innovative companies—those that can face challenging times and emerge stronger than ever—often recognize a key truth that is missing in many traditional, hierarchical organizations.

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Great Leadership Comes with a Counterintuitive Approach

Great Leadership By Dan

These individuals probably have some history of working together but they also operate with the same obstructed viewpoint. Recently, one of our clients began their corporate change initiative with a simple but very profound statement: “Trust is the foundation of speed and innovation.” I could not agree more.

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The Biggest Challenges into Exciting Opportunities

Coaching Tip

Basing the way you operate in the past, which is what best practices tell you to do, doesn’t equip you to navigate change. But when everyone thinks that way, institutions and organizations don’t adapt, they don’t innovate, they don’t change rapidly enough and it gets us all into trouble. That’s Not How We Do It Here!

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Fostering Employee Innovation at a 150-Year-Old Company

Harvard Business Review

To achieve that goal, however, we must innovate not only in terms of science and R&D, but also in how we run our business. “We cannot be like Google, but neither do we want to be,” says Kemal Malik, the board member responsible for innovation, “We need to plot our own path.” The innovation agenda.

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Benefits of Debriefing

Strategy Driven

Organizations that fail to continuously revise assumptions about their operating environment (i.e. Fighter Pilots and Special Operations teams have discovered and used a secret to continuous improvement – a tool every enterprise can benefit from. Keep your company fighter-pilot agile in any turbulent or changing market.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2014

Leading Blog

We must be creative and innovative in our organizations but perhaps more importantly, in working on ourselves. Accelerate : Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World by John P. Kotter For most companies, the hierarchy is the singular operating system at the heart of the firm. A S LEADERS we must learn and grow.

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