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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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Motivating, Mentoring and Measuring – Leading Unfamiliar Organizations

General Leadership

As John Kotter wrote in his article Accelerate! , “Communicate the vision and the strategy to create buy-in and attract a growing volunteer army.” The new leader must position those trusted agents on the new framework in locations where they are poised to carry out the vision of the organization.

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Leading Change – Lessons for New Leaders from Satya Nadella

Great Leadership By Dan

How can new leaders at organizations large and small help stir things up in a positive way that produces new innovations, generates new energy and engages staff? 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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Fast Change: The co-organization of Business

Great Leadership By Dan

Dr. John Kotter explains some of it in a video here – but there are a few things worth reinforcing. It’s highly unlikely they’ll remain untouched there; sadly, it is the position a lot of organizations will decide to settle for. change innovation John Kotter Russell Raath strategy'

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Executive Coaching and Leading Change

Lead Change Blog

As John Kotter, author of Leading Change , suggests, short-term wins reveal progress made, boost morale, and build positive momentum. A coach helps the leader establish milestones to measure progress and encourages him with reminders of progress made. The post Executive Coaching and Leading Change appeared first on Lead Change.

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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. Take away the fear, show people that you are willing to listen and take positive action based on the messages of those around you.

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How Healthy Is Your Organization’s Culture?

Tanveer Naseer

They valued compliance, agreeableness, and respect for positions. And even though Kotter and Heskett showed that culture could account for a 20-30% better overall performance than similar competitors, many leaders and organizations don’t see how to develop a culture that enhances performance. Or share positive observations.