In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 28, 2012

In the early days of my 40 year business career, I was lucky to work under two gentlemen who instilled several critical success factors that guided me from Brand Manager to CEO. At the risk of this blog appearing as an advertorial for Harvard, I’ll gladly admit that Harvard Business Review was my favorite management resource.

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The Office Blend Blog

MARCH 31, 2020

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. Management is (Still) Not Leadership. John Kotter. “CEO job No. Yet, this critical capability is not something that can materializes on demand.

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Coaching Tip

JUNE 1, 2016

Backed by 40 years of research, “THAT’S NOT HOW WE DO IT HERE: A Story about How Organizations Rise and Fall—and Can Rise Again,” tackles the eternal tension between management and leadership and the reasons for the rise and fall of organizations. Source : John Kotter: That's Not How We Do It Here!: That’s Not How We Do It Here!

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 24, 2017

Change management, which is taught, has been the default approach for strategy execution, but it is a subset of execution and more importantly does not work for implementing corporate strategy. 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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Management Craft

AUGUST 28, 2012

I explained who he was and recommended his site, the Management Innovation Exchange. I was surprised, however, because Gary is not just a seasoned expert, he is very active and hip in the field of management innovation. Hamel, Peters, Kotter, Bennis, etc. He has remained on the edge. the greats of my time.

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Ron Edmondson

DECEMBER 7, 2021

You can manage that. High need for innovation. . Of course, all of this points to a major difference in leading and managing. You can manage the “knowns” with the right structure and systems. In closing, I’m reminded of this John Kotter quote: “Management is about coping with complexity.

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

The new work contract – where employees take responsibility for their own careers and corporations provide them with career-enhancing but impermanent opportunities – can be as difficult for organizations to manage as it is for individuals. We must manage our human assets with the same rigor we devote to our financial assets.

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Management scholars Jay Conger and Rabindra Kanungo introduced a framework for charismatic leadership, which I use to reflect on the case studies of Alexander the Great and General Charles de Gaulle. –Jan-Benedict Incidentally, this also made Ben & Jerry’s one of the world’s best-selling ice-cream brands. Jan-Benedict Steenkamp.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

To achieve that goal, however, we must innovate not only in terms of science and R&D, but also in how we run our business. “We cannot be like Google, but neither do we want to be,” says Kemal Malik, the board member responsible for innovation, “We need to plot our own path.” The innovation agenda.

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The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 24, 2011

John Kotter and James Heskett’s classic book, Corporate Culture and Performance , is an organization development classic. Results (Four Rs, innovation, growth, and profitability). The book provided solid evidence of the payoffs that come from adaptive cultures and the negative power of unadaptive cultures. .

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

In providing research and developing training programs for various large corporations about managing change, we find that the biggest stumbling block for employees from top-down is lack of buy-in. Top executives have the vision, but often fail to get buy-in from managers who have to carry out the change initiative. Business Improv !

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

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. Especially important is ongoing training for managers, for without their leadership, sustainment is nearly impossible.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 10, 2018

” –John Kotter. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” “Management is about arranging and telling. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.” .” –Warren Bennis. ” –Ralph Nader. ” –Peter F. ” –Dennis Peer.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Creative Conspiracy: The New Rules of Breakthrough Collaboration Leigh Thompson This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking John Brockman, Editor Unrelenting Innovation: How to Build a Culture for Market Dominance Gerard [.].

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Every HR, OD professional, and management consultant should at the very least be aware of their existence, if not well-versed in their ideas and theories. In one of the defining management studies carried out in the 90s, Collins and his team complied a list of 1,435 companies in search of those special few that could truly be called “great.”

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Information overload is the management crisis of the 21stcentury. In a complex world where predictability is impossible and innovation and risk are necessary to survive and thrive, mistakes are not only acceptable, but welcome. He also serves as a consultant to process and continuous improvement management programs.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2014

We must be creative and innovative in our organizations but perhaps more importantly, in working on ourselves. Kotter For most companies, the hierarchy is the singular operating system at the heart of the firm. Isaacson makes the point that innovation happens in the real world by teams and not lone geniuses. Blog Post ).

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

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.). What can we do to get more people involved?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2012

For a detailed look at other ways to handle your supervisor, read the classic HBR article Managing Your Boss by John J. Hey boss, you know how you are always talking about how our department has to be more innovative. Gabarro and John P. It's one of our favorites. Okay, you've taken some more steps.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

Sometimes, it seems they've always loomed large: for decades, Michael Porter has been synonymous with strategy, and John Kotter with change management. magazine, speaking at major conferences, and advising the White House on innovation. Other times, the explosion onto the scene is fast and furious.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Twenty years ago, John Kotter pegged the failure rate at 70% and the needle hasn’t moved much since. Innovating for Value in Health Care. Doing so, we stumbled across a formula for accelerating organizational objectives while managing even higher levels of performance and engagement. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 11, 2012

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS The Pumpkin Plan: A Simple Strategy to Grow a Remarkable Business in Any Field Mike Michalowicz HBR Guide to Persuasive Presentations Nancy Duarte Freedom, Inc.: Free Your Employees and Let Them Lead Your Business to Higher [.].

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Millions worldwide have read and embraced John Kotter's ideas on change management and leadership. Leading Change is widely recognized as his seminal work on leading transformational change, and is an important precursor to his newer ideas on acceleration: effectively managing operations while seizing new opportunity.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

McDonald and his team’s approach was heavily influenced by John Kotter’s eight steps for effective organizational change. Measure performance carefully and manage with an eye on what’s most important to customers.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

Culture's all that invisible stuff that glues organizations together, as David Caldwell , my management professor at Santa Clara University, taught me many years ago. It includes things like norms of purpose, values, approach — the stuff that's hard to codify, hard to evaluate, and certainly hard to measure and therefore manage.

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