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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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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. The results helped mobilize a significant part of the organization: people at all levels and functions teamed up to generate new revenues, cut costs, increase productivity, and enhance quality. Insight Center.

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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. Root it out wherever you find it.