The Office Blend Blog

MARCH 31, 2020

“CEO job No. John Kotter. 1 is setting — micro-nourishing one day, one hour, one minute at a time — an effective people-truly-first, innovate-or-die, excellence-or-bust corporate culture.” – Tom Peters. The ability of an organization to respond effectively in times of crisis is paramount. Happy reading. Marla Gottschalk, HBR.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 19, 2018

Kotter wrote the book XLR8, which takes this concept on leading and describes a dual system organization meant to keep traditional hierarchy in place but facilitates direct and timely moves via a second organization that does not follow the former. He has also acted as interim CEO for a number of companies, including Styrotek Inc.,

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LDRLB

AUGUST 18, 2010

John Kotter’s (1996) book leading change presents an eight-step model for facilitating change that closely follows Lewin’s (1951) three phases model. If we overlay these two models, we see the first three stages of Kotter’s model providing insight on how to unfreeze an organization. Kotter, J.

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LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

We capped off our series on change by reviewing Kotter’s 8-stage change model. John Richard Bell argued why CEOs and HR should be joined at the hip. Our latest podcast episode featured Teresa Amabile of Harvard Business School talking about the power of progress on individual motivation and performance.

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Next Level Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

Posted by: Jon Latzer | June 29, 2010 at 01:44 PM Love Kotter's work. I also share my big take away from the book not it’s not just about the facts, it’s about something else. Conversely, I watch those that are constantly moving with a "sense of urgency" but don't seem to produce or get much accomplished. Good take on it.

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CEO Blog

MARCH 25, 2011

One of the books I read during my "found time" was Buy in - Saving Your Good Idea from Getting Shot Down by John Kotter and Lorne Whitehead. I like John Kotters ' books and writings. I use reading as one way to help solve problems. I previously reviewed A Sense of Urgency and What Leaders Really Do. Ideas are a dime a dozen.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 24, 2017

John Kotter offers the “8 Step Process for Leading Change”. The founder and CEO of Bridges Business Consultancy Int, he created the Implementation Hub, the world’s first online portal dedicated to strategy implementation. There are only a few options such as Palladium Execution Premium Process™ (XPP ) developed by Drs.

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

In his book New Rules, John Kotter notes that from 1974 through 1994, Harvard Business School graduates who worked for smaller corporations tended to make more money and have higher job satisfaction than their counterparts in large corporations. The CEO of a leading telecommunications company recently embarked on an innovative approach.

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

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. Over time, and especially after he was also appointed CEO of Renault, he became increasingly autocratic. Jan-Benedict Steenkamp. Be Smarter!

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2017

What makes a CEO effective? Yet we still know fairly little about how CEOs behave day-to-day and how their behavior relates to the success or failure of the companies they run. In new research , we use survey data from over 1,000 CEOs across six countries and the financial performance of their companies to explore these questions.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 18, 2012

I have read about 30 leadership books including Maxwell, Kouzes & Posner, Kotter, and Schein. I have read a few of the books from CEOs or Ex-CEOs who have transformed American companies. I was wondering if there are any other books you could particularly recommend. These have left me pretty cold.”

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Readers'' favorites included those written by or about sports coaches, athletes, CEOs, scholars, religious leaders, governmental and military leaders.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

Jason Richmond is President & CEO of Ideal Outcomes, Inc. 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. Simply put, culture drives performance.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 25, 2012

Readers' favorites included those written by or about sports coaches, athletes, CEOs, scholars, religious leaders, governmental and military leaders.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Readers'' favorites included those written by or about sports coaches, athletes, CEOs, scholars, religious leaders, governmental and military leaders.

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Readers' favorites included those written by or about sports coaches, athletes, CEOs, scholars, religious leaders, governmental and military leaders.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 12, 2011

Previously, he was founder and CEO of Lore International Institute. Bacon is a Scholar in Residence in the Korn/Ferry Institute. He has a B.S. in engineering from West Point and a PhD in literary studies from The American University.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

According to leadership expert John Kotter , a lack of leadership vision is one of the most common reasons why transformational change efforts fail. A leadership vision isn’t just for large, CEO led, company-wide transformational changes. Transformational” is always relative and defined by those most impacted by the change.

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

The essence of the book is captured in the quote by Robert Eckert, former Mattel CEO: “As you go to work, your top responsibility should be to build trust.” It is one of the top selling business books of all time and a favourite among CEOs. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don’t (2001).

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

John Kotter, the renowned scholar on change management, suggests that successful change requires management to create opportunities for ‘short term wins,’ thereby repetitively reinforcing positive steps along the path to change. ‘Murph’ Murphy, the Founder & CEO of Afterburner, Inc., About the Authors.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2017

The most popular managerial approach to change management is John Kotter’s eight-step model. This makes it difficult to justify investment in change management with the rigor that a data-driven CEO or CFO might expect. Subsequent research to validate this model have been unsuccessful.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

Would shareholders of Kodak — which had some of the earliest digital photography technology — agree that its destruction made evolutionary sense, or would they echo Harvard Professor John Kotter's remark that it was the result of "complacency"? They can focus and simplify their organizations. Focus on your greatest strengths.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Just ask Richard Aubut, CEO of South Shore Hospital , the leading regional provider of healthcare in southeastern Massachusetts. "We A culture of continuous improvement is crucial to organizational performance and survival. But we do know we need to build the capability to deal with whatever does. "But

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2011

True North - Bill George, former CEO of Medtronic provides a simple step-by-step guide for being an authentic leader. That said, this rule doesn’t apply to professor Kotter. To conquer a nation is one thing, to gain their respect and lead them with benevolence after the fact is quite another. This is a fascinating read.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2015

It’s been almost 10 years since HBR published John Kotter’s classic article,” Why Transformation Efforts Fail.” As a result, the CEO launched a transformation strategy with the goal of figuring out a more sustainable business model.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Twenty years ago, John Kotter pegged the failure rate at 70% and the needle hasn’t moved much since. So I did what CEOs often do when they confront a maze they might get lost in – I called for help and asked an executive advisor and organizational change expert for guidance.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

On July 30, 2014, exactly 13 months after retiring as P&G’s Chairman and CEO, McDonald was sworn in as the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. McDonald and his team’s approach was heavily influenced by John Kotter’s eight steps for effective organizational change.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

Many other experts, such as Senge and Kotter have certainly added to that understanding with complex and nuanced constructs, but Caldwell's invisible glue comment holds a truth. Each believed they were "in the right" and wanted the CEO to simply pick the winner, making the losing party wrong and mostly likely, gone.

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