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Leading Change – Lessons for New Leaders from Satya Nadella

Great Leadership By Dan

In Nadella’s case, within his first few months, in line with the future destination he had plotted for the business and his new focus on certain product classes, he adjusted staff within the marketing team and mixed up the leadership in the device and cloud divisions of the company. Kotter Microsoft Randy Ottinger Satya Nadella'

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Success: A Breeding Ground for Complacency?

Great Leadership By Dan

Here's another exclusive guest post from John Kotter. Here are some questions you can ask to determine whether complacency has set in among your employees: • Are team conversations inwardly focused, and not about new markets, emerging technologies or potential competitors? • Success is a lousy teacher.

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Peter F. DiGiammarino: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

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Peter DiGiammarino is a senior executive with 35 years of success leading businesses that target tight public and private markets around the world. DiGiammarino: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris Tom Davenport University of San Francisco'

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Does a Mentor have to Breathe?

In the CEO Afterlife

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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Active Listening: the Key to Leadership Success

Great Leadership By Dan

The In Search of Excellence author, Tom Peters utilizes the term “management by walking around”. I often tell upper management that they have earned their stripes and that I view them as “the Elder council”. This concept is combated by leadership that is visible and communicative at all levels. This is leadership!

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3 Ways Leaders Can Help Bring Great Ideas To Life

Tanveer Naseer

The following is a guest piece by Kotter International President, Russell Raath on behalf of The Economist Executive Education Navigator. Are staff members empowered to test new ideas and report back to management on their successes, as part of helping the organization constantly adapt and improve? Do as I do, not only as I say.”

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Rapid BI

Leadership and Management Models Download PowerPoint Slides – page 3b. At RapidBI we use many management and leadership models and through the process of using them we have developed a library of 100?s. This set contains the slides from all of our management, change, talent & leadership models slide sets. Kotter Change.