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JANUARY 1, 2022

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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Books Heskett Leadership Competitive Advantage 225

The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 24, 2011

John Kotter and James Heskett’s classic book, Corporate Culture and Performance , is an organization development classic. The book’s main framework is a circular diagram following these steps: Mission, Shared Assumptions, and Values <–> Alignment with Strategies and Methods of Execution. Setting Expectations.

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Heskett Kotter Books Review 49

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2011

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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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2012

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.

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