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JANUARY 1, 2022

Win from Within : Build Organizational Culture for Competitive Advantage by James Heskett. James Heskett provides a roadmap for achievable and fast-paced culture change. We the Leader : Build a Team of Equals Who All Lead AND Follow to Drive Creativity and Innovation by Jeffrey Spahn.

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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 provided solid evidence of the payoffs that come from adaptive cultures and the negative power of unadaptive cultures. . Results (Four Rs, innovation, growth, and profitability).

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

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. There is no doubt that strong culture translates into a powerful competitive advantage. Jason Richmond.

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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. Heskett of Harvard Business School observes, it's important to endow workers on the front line with "latitude within limits." All things considered, that's a powerful outcome. Crisis averted. Just ask Frank.

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