Leading Blog
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. Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in January 2022. Be sure to check out the other great titles being offered this month.
Tanveer Naseer
JULY 26, 2016
Heskett published their 10-year research project – “ Corporate Culture and Performance ” – in which they compared companies that intentionally managed their cultures to similar companies that did not. Who wouldn’t want to achieve results similar to those reported by Kotter and Heskett? In 2005, J. Kotter and James L.
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Tanveer Naseer
FEBRUARY 20, 2018
And even though Kotter and Heskett showed that culture could account for a 20-30% better overall performance than similar competitors, many leaders and organizations don’t see how to develop a culture that enhances performance. Those are the ingredients of a positive culture, and they’re proven to boost productivity.
The Practical Leader
OCTOBER 24, 2011
John Kotter and James Heskett’s classic book, Corporate Culture and Performance , is an organization development classic. Retention : Lower recruiting, hiring, training, and lost productivity costs because of greater employee loyalty. Returns to labor : Greater productivity per dollar of compensation.
LDRLB
MAY 19, 2011
Employees and customers in these situations appear to be playing a key role in a cycle of success spirals (Heskett et al., increased productivity, lower recruitment and training costs). Employees and customers in these situations appear to be playing a key role in a cycle of success spirals (Heskett et al.,
The Practical Leader
DECEMBER 26, 2012
Harvard Business School professor, James Heskett, poses the right question in his blog Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions? ” In providing provocative perspectives on this challenge, Heskett draws from three books on the folly of predictions, how some predictions can be made more accurate, and how to gain from disorder.
Marshall Goldsmith
NOVEMBER 24, 2010
Heskett and W. These employees recommend new employees to the organization, and participate in efforts to improve current products, services, and processes. In some cases, it interferes with quality and productivity. loyalty, high productivity, and referrals of others as potential employees. Who doesn't? Earl Sasser, Jr.
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