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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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Buy-In – The Imperative Strategy

Strategy Driven

This idea is supported by Harvard Business School Professor John Kotter, authority on leadership and change, who finds that in order to succeed, 75% of the company’s management, needs to ‘buy into’ the change. I had forgotten about them because I get stressed with the things I don’t like as much.

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Why We Need More (Women) Leaders

Harvard Business Review

John Kotter defines leadership as "creating a vision of the future and strategies for producing the changes needed to achieve that vision; aligning people around the vision; and motivating them to overcome barriers and produce the changes needed to achieve the vision.". And they need to come from everywhere.

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How Coty Reinvigorated Its Supply Chain

Harvard Business Review

To address these questions, Coty partnered with Kotter International to implement a broad global change management program. Kotter’s book Accelerate.). The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. The Coty experience also informs case study examples in John P. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Speak To The Heart To Lead Change

Tanveer Naseer

In “ The Heart of Change ”, John Kotter and Dan Cohen discuss a study they conducted with Deloitte Consulting about the nature of change. To sum up: Take advantage of emotional triggers that influence others to change their mind or their actions. Influence works quickest when it hits the heart. (i) People don’t think in a void.