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Leading Change – Lessons for New Leaders from Satya Nadella

Great Leadership By Dan

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? Nadella, by contrast, set a strong direction from day one, clearly laying out a destination in his focus on “mobile-first, cloud-first” technologies.

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

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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 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.). The technologies and processes that are transforming companies.

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When "Creative Destruction" Destroys More than It Creates

Harvard Business Review

Would shareholders of Kodak — which had some of the earliest digital photography technology — agree that its destruction made evolutionary sense, or would they echo Harvard Professor John Kotter's remark that it was the result of "complacency"? Markets change; technology evolves. Root it out wherever you find it.