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First Look: Leadership Books for June 2021

Leading Blog

Change How Organizations Achieve Hard-to-Imagine Results in Uncertain and Volatile Times by John P. Kotter with Vanessa Akhtar and Gaurav Gupta. In Change: How Organizations Achieve Hard-to-Imagine Results in Uncertain and Volatile Times , authors John P.

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There Is No Time To Hurry Up And Wait

N2Growth Blog

There is no better time than now for learning how to avoid risk by leading out from crises before they happen. John Kotter was right; an atmosphere of urgency will create an atmosphere of exceptional or extraordinary achievement. Embrace a do it now philosophy; learn to be a better you because everybody else is taken.

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Motivating, Mentoring and Measuring – Leading Unfamiliar Organizations

General Leadership

“Never tell people how to do things. Alan Mulally , the former CEO of Boeing , started his career there as an aerospace engineer. As John Kotter wrote in his article Accelerate! , “Communicate the vision and the strategy to create buy-in and attract a growing volunteer army.” ” General George S. Patton, Jr.

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3 Ways Thinking Small Will Improve Employee Engagement

Let's Grow Leaders

Employees are volunteering to help with the enthusiasm of Horshack in Welcome Back Kotter. . Career & Learning Communication confident humility entrepreneurial mindset how to grow your business' There are challenges of course, but I’m not finding them in the employee engagement arena.

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Retain Your Top Performers

Marshall Goldsmith

Leaders are debating the changing nature of work and the perceived decline in job security (the lifelong career at a benevolent company is a fading memory) and the erosion of corporate loyalty. We, as leaders, still understand little of how to retain essential high performers in turbulent times. Five Trends . Five Trends .

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100 Answers to the Question: What Is Leadership?

Lead from Within

“A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.”–Johann ” –John Kotter. “Leadership is a matter of how to be, not how to do it.” “Never tell people how to do things. Very few understand why or how to prevent it.

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

You're Not the Boss of Me

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. Reply Gwyn Teatro April 21, 2009 at 3:40 am Thanks for your comments Joe. I will make a point of searching out “Leading Up&# !

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