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Leading Change – Lessons for New Leaders from Satya Nadella

Great Leadership By Dan

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

Marshall Goldsmith

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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We Still Don’t Know the Difference Between Change and Transformation

Harvard Business Review

It’s been almost 10 years since HBR published John Kotter’s classic article,” Why Transformation Efforts Fail.” ” Many managers don’t realize that the two are not the same. ” Many managers don’t realize that the two are not the same. The change management work focused on execution.

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