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3 Ways Leaders Can Help Bring Great Ideas To Life

Tanveer Naseer

The following is a guest piece by Kotter International President, Russell Raath on behalf of The Economist Executive Education Navigator. Yet the most innovative companies—those that can face challenging times and emerge stronger than ever—often recognize a key truth that is missing in many traditional, hierarchical organizations.

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Leaders Can’t Execute Strategy

Great Leadership By Dan

This has left a skills gap among today’s leaders that heavily contributes to the downfall of company attempts to execute their strategy, resulting in loss of market and shareholder value. There are only a few options such as Palladium Execution Premium Process™ (XPP ) developed by Drs. I call this the “Strategy Execution Skills Gap”.

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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. The CEO of a leading telecommunications company recently embarked on an innovative approach.

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How to Ignite and Sustain Organizational Growth

Skip Prichard

With the ever-changing dynamics of the workforce, the stewardship of organizational culture is just as important as strategy, talent, product development, or customer service. He helps companies build strong sustained revenue growth through by developing energizing office cultures. Simply put, culture drives performance.

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Fostering Employee Innovation at a 150-Year-Old Company

Harvard Business Review

To achieve that goal, however, we must innovate not only in terms of science and R&D, but also in how we run our business. “We cannot be like Google, but neither do we want to be,” says Kemal Malik, the board member responsible for innovation, “We need to plot our own path.” The innovation agenda.

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Benefits of Debriefing

Strategy Driven

market) risk obsolescence or irrelevance. It is vital to develop the capacity to learn from your environment. Keep your company fighter-pilot agile in any turbulent or changing market. It helps us to continually revise our assumptions about the market, economy, and world. But how is this done?

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Build Your Reputation the Rachael Ray Way

Harvard Business Review

Sometimes, it seems they've always loomed large: for decades, Michael Porter has been synonymous with strategy, and John Kotter with change management. magazine, speaking at major conferences, and advising the White House on innovation. Skills development comes first. Build your platform. Embrace luck — and make your own.