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How to Ignite and Sustain Organizational Growth

Skip Prichard

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. It is not an afterthought or a nice-to-have plan that they delegate to human resources to develop.

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Retain Your Top Performers

Marshall Goldsmith

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. It also enhances the young leaders’ commitment to stay with the firm. Five Trends .

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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

3) Lack of commitment. A Harvard Business School professor, Kotter emphasises a comprehensive eight-step framework that can be followed by executives at all levels. Human Resource Champions (1996). She faces the ultimate leadership crisis: Uniting a team in such disarray that it threatens to bring down the entire company.

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

You're Not the Boss of Me

The basic message though is that no matter who we are, or how flexible we consider ourselves, when faced with change, we all move through this transitional curve, beginning with denial; through resistance; exploration and; then finally commitment. John Kotter is one of my particular favorites.

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