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First Look: Leadership Books for June 2021

Leading Blog

Kotter with Vanessa Akhtar and Gaurav Gupta. Kotter, Vanessa Akhtar, and Gaurav Gupta explore how to create non-linear, dramatic change in your organization. Now it’s time to focus on positive social interactions and relationships in the workplace.

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Active Listening: the Key to Leadership Success

Great Leadership By Dan

If you start with active listening as leader you can determine who understands the mission the best, who is most capable of success and what kind of support is required for a positive outcome. After absorbing a new operation, I visited the factory floor. Meaning constant communication needs to flow in both directions.

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How Healthy Is Your Organization’s Culture?

Tanveer Naseer

They valued compliance, agreeableness, and respect for positions. Yes, we could, but if you need to change it is useful to make culture also operational and look at the daily (inter)actions. Maybe he’d have to start looking for another position. Or for fear of losing their jobs. So down-to-earth?

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How to Ignite and Sustain Organizational Growth

Skip Prichard

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. In other words, culture is the fuel that drives and sustains positive engagement. Jason Richmond.

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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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Benefits of Debriefing

Strategy Driven

Organizations that fail to continuously revise assumptions about their operating environment (i.e. Fighter Pilots and Special Operations teams have discovered and used a secret to continuous improvement – a tool every enterprise can benefit from. market) risk obsolescence or irrelevance. But how is this done? Duke and James D.

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How Coty Reinvigorated Its Supply Chain

Harvard Business Review

To address these questions, Coty partnered with Kotter International to implement a broad global change management program. Kotter’s book Accelerate.). Identify the skills needed and create job positions or profiles. Operations in a Connected World. The Coty experience also informs case study examples in John P.