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First Look: Leadership Books for January 2022

Leading Blog

Win from Within : Build Organizational Culture for Competitive Advantage by James Heskett. higher levels of employee and customer engagement and loyalty translate into higher growth and profits. James Heskett provides a roadmap for achievable and fast-paced culture change.

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Book Review of “The Culture Cycle: How to Shape the Unseen Force that Transforms Performance”

The Practical Leader

John Kotter and James Heskett’s classic book, Corporate Culture and Performance , is an organization development classic. Results (Four Rs, innovation, growth, and profitability). Retention : Lower recruiting, hiring, training, and lost productivity costs because of greater employee loyalty. Organization Learning (e.g.

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What Great Companies Know About Culture

Harvard Business Review

Heskett wrote in his latest book The Culture Cycle , effective culture can account for 20-30 percent of the differential in corporate performance when compared with "culturally unremarkable" competitors. But is there a direct correlation between employee investment and the balance sheet?

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Is Kindness a Strategy?

Harvard Business Review

I'm sure many supervisors at American would have issues with their colleague's innovative, if mildly deceptive, solution. Every problem, if managed well, is thus an "opportunity" to boost overall loyalty among a company's already loyal customers. Crisis averted. But, no matter how you look at it, it was an act of genuine kindness.