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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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Retain Your Top Performers

Marshall Goldsmith

In his book New Rules, John Kotter notes that from 1974 through 1994, Harvard Business School graduates who worked for smaller corporations tended to make more money and have higher job satisfaction than their counterparts in large corporations. Five Trends . Our task is complicated by five additional trends: 1.

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When "Creative Destruction" Destroys More than It Creates

Harvard Business Review

Would shareholders of Kodak — which had some of the earliest digital photography technology — agree that its destruction made evolutionary sense, or would they echo Harvard Professor John Kotter's remark that it was the result of "complacency"? Markets change; technology evolves. Compete for the long term.

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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.” For example, when a large technology firm integrated specialized engineers into its regional sales teams, there were shifts in roles, client coverage, compensation, goal setting, and teamwork.

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