Management Craft

DECEMBER 7, 2011

As William Bridges wrote in Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change , “to begin you must first end.” Every large change – even something as seemingly straightforward as a new software system – involves changing what people do (tasks, roles, structures), how they do it (processes and habits), and why they do it (beliefs and values).

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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. You developed a five-step system for culture change. Simply put, culture drives performance. ” -Jason Richmond.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 18, 2012

One example was an e-mail from a manager at the American Society of Training and Development: “We are building our reference list for the ASTD Forum Lab in India in October. I have read about 30 leadership books including Maxwell, Kouzes & Posner, Kotter, and Schein. The theme is Executive global leadership. .”

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2014

John Kotter provides that extra something we need in Accelerate (XLR8). He writes that management-driven hierarchies are “still absolutely necessary to make organizations work.” It is a dual operating system. A second system that is organized as a network that works in cooperation with the existing hierarchy.

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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. John Kotter, the renowned scholar on change management, suggests that successful change requires management to create opportunities for ‘short term wins,’ thereby repetitively reinforcing positive steps along the path to change. But how is this done?

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2014

Reinventing Organizations : A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness by Frederic Laloux Based on three years of research, Reinventing Organizations describes the emergence of a new management paradigm, a radically more soulful, purposeful and powerful ways to structure and run any organization.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

I have found that with less than 50% of managers and employees feeling that urgency, you’re very vulnerable to failure. Moreover, because of the way perception and information get filtered in our management-driven hierarchies, it can be very difficult to distinguish false from true urgency. What to do?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2015

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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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. Yet, a variety of financial and operational problems impeded success and we lacked a clear strategic path toward building the kind of coordinated care delivery system healthcare desperately needs. Rounding and listening.

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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

JULY 1, 2016

While the popular press talks of stress as a negative to be avoided, seasoned managers know better. If you’ve been around the management block a time or two, you’ve probably also seen the other side of stress. This magic zone is what John Kotter referred to as the “Productive Range of Distress.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Some maintained secret wait lists outside the system, officially adding patients 14 days before their scheduled appointments. McDonald and his team’s approach was heavily influenced by John Kotter’s eight steps for effective organizational change. Could the organization turn itself around?

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