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Expecting the Unexpected: Meet Unpredictability with Agility and Adaptability

The Practical Leader

In Future Babble: Why Expert Predictions Fail — and Why We Believe Them Anyway ( click for my review ), Gardner features the research of Philip Tetlock when Tetlock was professor of psychology, business, and political science at University of California Berkeley. there will never be another war in Europe,” “Social Media?

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Harvard Business Review on Increasing Customer Loyalty: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Harvard Business Review on Increasing Customer Loyalty Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How to create customers who are profitable This is one of the volumes in a series of anthologies of articles that first appeared in Harvard Business Review.

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

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Links for Digging Deeper Into “Leading a Peak Performance Culture”

The Practical Leader

You might want to view (or review) the session on your own or share it with your management team and/or improvement professionals concerned with leadership and culture development. Review of Beyond Performance (the massive McKenzie study) and key frameworks from it. Excerpts and key findings from Beyond Performance.

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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. Conduct talent reviews sooner rather than later and identify the “keepers.” Simply put, culture drives performance.

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Culture Cycle: The Unseen Force that Transforms Performance

Harvard Business Review

Heskett describes how an effective culture can account for up to half of the differential in performance between organizations in the same business. Heskett discusses how to calculate the economic value of culture through the "Four Rs" of referrals, retention, returns to labor, and relationships with customers. Heskett.

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The Culture Cycle: How to Shape the Unseen Force that Transforms Performance

Harvard Business Review

Heskett introduces a powerful conceptual framework for managing culture change and shows it at work in a real-world setting. Heskett's "culture cycle" identifies policies, practices, measures, and behaviors that are crucial to moving cultures forward. In this HBR webinar, James L. Listen here. View webinar: A conversation with James L.