Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 10, 2012

Here's another exclusive guest post from John Kotter. I wrote that Washington suffered from a “complacency cancer,” that after 250 years as the nerve center of the most prosperous, innovative, militarily and economically advanced nation in modern history, success had gone to our political leaders’ heads. Success is a lousy teacher.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 24, 2014

How can new leaders at organizations large and small help stir things up in a positive way that produces new innovations, generates new energy and engages staff? About the author: Randy Ottinger is an Executive Vice President at Kotter International , a firm that helps leaders accelerate strategy implementation in their organizations.

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Reflections on Charismatic Leadership. In marketing, this idea is used in “purpose branding”—how a brand can change the world for the better. 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.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 18, 2016

The following is a guest piece by Kotter International President, Russell Raath on behalf of The Economist Executive Education Navigator. Yet the most innovative companies—those that can face challenging times and emerge stronger than ever—often recognize a key truth that is missing in many traditional, hierarchical organizations.

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In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 28, 2012

The latest thinking from the great strategists of the era – Michael Porter, Henry Ginsberg, Rosabeth Kanter, John Kotter. I came up through marketing; quite honestly, during my years in marketing I hadn’t given much thought to HR. A client in need of innovation? Human Resources. Dispute Resolution. Perennial Wisdom.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 24, 2017

This has left a skills gap among today’s leaders that heavily contributes to the downfall of company attempts to execute their strategy, resulting in loss of market and shareholder value. John Kotter offers the “8 Step Process for Leading Change”. I call this the “Strategy Execution Skills Gap”. Kaplan and David P.

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

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 CEO of a leading telecommunications company recently embarked on an innovative approach.

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