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A Selection of Readings From The Core Masterclass

The Office Blend Blog

1 is setting — micro-nourishing one day, one hour, one minute at a time — an effective people-truly-first, innovate-or-die, excellence-or-bust corporate culture.” – Tom Peters. John Kotter. She is a charter member of the LinkedIn Influencer Program. “CEO job No. and individual core stability (psychological safety, etc.)

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Retain Your Top Performers

Marshall Goldsmith

In his book New Rules, John Kotter notes that from 1974 through 1994, Harvard Business School graduates who worked for smaller corporations tended to make more money and have higher job satisfaction than their counterparts in large corporations. The rise in the influence of the knowledge worker. . Five Trends .

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100 Answers to the Question: What Is Leadership?

Lead from Within

” –John Kotter. “Leadership is the capacity to influence others through inspiration motivated by passion, generated by vision, produced by a conviction, ignited by a purpose.” “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” .” –Warren Bennis. ” –Ralph Nader.

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5 Components of Charismatic Leadership

Skip Prichard

Leadership author John Kotter identifies the creation of a vision for change and communication of the change vision as the third and fourth steps in his model for effective change management. That situation has influenced the formulation of our objectives. Jan-Benedict Steenkamp. Define and communicate the discrepant, idealized vision.

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Buy-In – The Imperative Strategy

Strategy Driven

Business Improv: Experiential Learning Exercises to Train Employees to Handle Every Situation with Success by Val and Sarah Gee The secret to business growth is right before your eyes – it’s the creativity and innovation percolating in each one of your employees every minute of every day. Business Improv !

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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. They truly influence the emotional a-ha moments, the vital light bulb moments that need to occur to create momentum. #3.

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How Coty Reinvigorated Its Supply Chain

Harvard Business Review

How can we as leaders help our front-line teams take more action to innovate and improve how work gets done? To address these questions, Coty partnered with Kotter International to implement a broad global change management program. Kotter’s book Accelerate.). How can we go even faster? Apply to do extra work.