Chartered Management Institute
APRIL 18, 2024
What they do not do well is identify the most important hazards and opportunities early enough, formulate creative strategic initiatives nimbly enough, and implement them fast enough.” – John Kotter, Harvard Business School Business disruption, societal upheaval and rapid technological shifts bring constant pressure for organisations to innovate.
N2Growth Blog
NOVEMBER 26, 2014
So, whenever a leader or an organization adopts any new strategy, technology platform, methodology or approach, that adoption has to be driven by both a need and with leadership clarity. John Kotter was right; an atmosphere of urgency will create an atmosphere of exceptional or extraordinary achievement.
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Great Leadership By Dan
JULY 24, 2014
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.
Great Leadership By Dan
JANUARY 10, 2012
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.
Coaching Tip
MAY 14, 2014
We are in the midst of a storm that has been increasing in intensity for decades, driven by advancing technology and global integration. The first answer is the nature of management and the nature of leadership. Management is not Leadership. Kotter: Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World.
Leading Blog
FEBRUARY 7, 2011
Peter Senge, founder of the Society of Organizational Learning and senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, once observed, “Most managers do not reflect carefully on their actions.” Most managers are too busy “running” to reflect. There is always one more e-mail and it will control you if you let it.
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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