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

First Friday Book Synopsis

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

The latest thinking from the great strategists of the era – Michael Porter, Henry Ginsberg, Rosabeth Kanter, John Kotter. I came up through marketing; quite honestly, during my years in marketing I hadn’t given much thought to HR. Most importantly, the implications and action steps became an ‘easy sell’ to my team.

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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. The idea that saves the business $10 million may come from a production line supervisor; the concept that opens up an entirely new market for your products might come from a junior sales rep.

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Active Listening: the Key to Leadership Success

Great Leadership By Dan

No serious strategic moves will be made without them being part of the decision-making; however, markets, customers, supply chains, manufacturing processes and everything else in the age of “digital connectivity” changes too fast for a traditional organization to react in a timely fashion.

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Leaders Can’t Execute Strategy

Great Leadership By Dan

This has left a skills gap among today’s leaders that heavily contributes to the downfall of company attempts to execute their strategy, resulting in loss of market and shareholder value. John Kotter offers the “8 Step Process for Leading Change”. I call this the “Strategy Execution Skills Gap”. Kaplan and David P.

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