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First Look: Leadership Books for January 2022

Leading Blog

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in January 2022. Win from Within : Build Organizational Culture for Competitive Advantage by James Heskett. James Heskett provides a roadmap for achievable and fast-paced culture change. Be sure to check out the other great titles being offered this month.

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Book Review of “The Culture Cycle: How to Shape the Unseen Force that Transforms Performance”

The Practical Leader

John Kotter and James Heskett’s classic book, Corporate Culture and Performance , is an organization development classic. The book provided solid evidence of the payoffs that come from adaptive cultures and the negative power of unadaptive cultures. . Results (Four Rs, innovation, growth, and profitability).

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How to Ignite and Sustain Organizational Growth

Skip Prichard

After reading his book Culture Spark , I reached out to talk about his work and his research. “If James Heskett and John Kotter found that organizations with strong corporate cultures realized over eleven years revenue growth of 682 percent, employment growth of 282 percent and stock price growth of 901 percent. Jason Richmond.

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Culture Cycle: The Unseen Force that Transforms Performance

Harvard Business Review

In his new book, The Culture Cycle , James L. Heskett describes how an effective culture can account for up to half of the differential in performance between organizations in the same business. Heskett. View webinar: A conversation with James L.

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What Great Companies Know About Culture

Harvard Business Review

Heskett wrote in his latest book The Culture Cycle , effective culture can account for 20-30 percent of the differential in corporate performance when compared with "culturally unremarkable" competitors. But is there a direct correlation between employee investment and the balance sheet?

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Is Kindness a Strategy?

Harvard Business Review

Most airline personnel would have stopped there and offered to book the next available flight — for a fee. I'm sure many supervisors at American would have issues with their colleague's innovative, if mildly deceptive, solution. If Frank was late, it was Frank's fault. If he missed his board meeting, that was his problem.