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Brief History of Change: Kotter

LDRLB

There is perhaps no change model more cited than John Kotter’s eight-stage change process. Kotter’s work has been repacked and resold by countless “change consultants.” Considering what is said about imitation, the Harvard Business School professor must be the most flattered guru in management.

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Brief History of Change: Kotter

LDRLB

Kotter’s work has been repacked and resold by countless “change consultants.” Considering what is said about imitation, the Harvard Business School professor must be the most flattered guru in management. Kotter first presented this model in his 1995 book Leading Change. Identify true leaders and ask for emotional commitment.

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There Is No Time To Hurry Up And Wait

N2Growth Blog

John Kotter was right; an atmosphere of urgency will create an atmosphere of exceptional or extraordinary achievement. In the end, the lessons you’ll walk away with will outline everything you don’t know that you don’t know about creating commitment, accountability and most importantly a sense of urgency.

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Executive Coaching and Leading Change

Lead Change Blog

Coaching sessions typically end with a summary of the leader’s commitments, or actions she will take before their next meeting. The coach reviews those commitments with the leader at the beginning of the next coaching session. Leading change is more challenging than managing a project that has defined beginning and end points.

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Creating A Customer-Centric Culture – The Disney Way

Tanveer Naseer

Kotter and James L. Heskett published their 10-year research project – “ Corporate Culture and Performance ” – in which they compared companies that intentionally managed their cultures to similar companies that did not. Here are some of their findings: Managed Their Cultures Revenue growth of 682 percent. In 2005, J.

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Leaders Can’t Execute Strategy

Great Leadership By Dan

Change management, which is taught, has been the default approach for strategy execution, but it is a subset of execution and more importantly does not work for implementing corporate strategy. John Kotter offers the “8 Step Process for Leading Change”. I call this the “Strategy Execution Skills Gap”. Kaplan and David P.

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Retain Your Top Performers

Marshall Goldsmith

The new work contract – where employees take responsibility for their own careers and corporations provide them with career-enhancing but impermanent opportunities – can be as difficult for organizations to manage as it is for individuals. We must manage our human assets with the same rigor we devote to our financial assets.