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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? Nadella, by contrast, set a strong direction from day one, clearly laying out a destination in his focus on “mobile-first, cloud-first” technologies.

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Consider: Harnessing the Power of Reflective Thinking in Your Organization

Leading Blog

Some organizations he has studied have adopted a no internal e-mail Friday policy and other ways to temporarily disconnect from technology. Although these ideas may not work for you, the point is made so that you might consider the impact these technologies are having on the productivity and well-being of your staff.

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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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Buy-In – The Imperative Strategy

Strategy Driven

This idea is supported by Harvard Business School Professor John Kotter, authority on leadership and change, who finds that in order to succeed, 75% of the company’s management, needs to ‘buy into’ the change. We also tell them that they can make up their answers if they get stuck.

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When "Creative Destruction" Destroys More than It Creates

Harvard Business Review

My colleagues and I at Bain & Company have been tracking this for forty years, and we have never seen companies losing their leadership positions as quickly as they are today. Did it seem "creative" to Nokia shareholders when the company missed the smart phone wave despite having some of the early technology? And for telecom.

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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. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. Allocate budget for a team.

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Why We Need More (Women) Leaders

Harvard Business Review

John Kotter defines leadership as "creating a vision of the future and strategies for producing the changes needed to achieve that vision; aligning people around the vision; and motivating them to overcome barriers and produce the changes needed to achieve the vision.". And they need to come from everywhere.

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