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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. James Heskett provides a roadmap for achievable and fast-paced culture change. He demonstrates that an effective culture supplies the trust that makes managing change of all kinds easier.

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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). Heskett does a great job of showing how culture is critical to organizational success and providing powerful and highly illuminating examples.

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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. Especially important is ongoing training for managers, for without their leadership, sustainment is nearly impossible.

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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.