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Expecting the Unexpected: Meet Unpredictability with Agility and Adaptability

The Practical Leader

Harvard Business School professor, James Heskett, poses a vital question in “Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?” Escaping the Change Management Trap: From Rigidity to Agility. They launch a series of programs bolted-on the side of operations rather than an integrated process of change and transformation.

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How Healthy Is Your Organization’s Culture?

Tanveer Naseer

Yes, we could, but if you need to change it is useful to make culture also operational and look at the daily (inter)actions. ” John was stunned, but he managed to say: “But why was I invited to this meeting if I can’t share my view?” You’re a new manager, and you’d better fit in!

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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. Corporate leaders that operate with an ivory tower mentality are likely to find their tower tumbling down.

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Keeping Your People Engaged in Tough Times

Marshall Goldsmith

Heskett and W. Here's his take: Joe: Managers across the country are facing tough decisions as they try to manage their cost base against diminishing demand. These actions, coupled with incentives that elicit new ideas for improving operations can send important positive messages at a time of stress. Earl Sasser, Jr.

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The Tentacles of Our Ways – Why Change is So Hard

Management Craft

If due to resistance, lack of clarity, or operational challenges a trigger does not flip, then we may become stuck in the old way. As William Bridges wrote in Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change , “to begin you must first end.” As these triggers are flipped, we move forward in the transition process.

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Thoughts that Make You Go Hmmm on…. Leading Culture Change

The Practical Leader

These are drawn from Harvard Business School professor, James Heskett’s new book, The Culture Cycle: How to Shape the Unseen Force That Transforms Performance : “Culture really matters. Here are especially vital findings and powerful observations about just what it takes to build a peak performance culture.

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Retail's Winners Rely on the Service-Profit Chain

Harvard Business Review

The article, written by a leading group of service management thinkers (Jim Heskett, Tom Jones, Gary Loveman, Earl Sasser, and Len Schlesinger) is a great example of both the power a management idea can have, and how much work is required for an idea to become reality.

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