Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Growth happens when we stop repeating our habitual patterns and behaviors and begin to see things in a new way and in the process, discover the power to create the results we want. That makes Consider: Harnessing the Power of Reflective Thinking in Your Organization , one of the most important books you’ll read this year.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

John Kotter begins this series on reflection by talking about the need to develop a reflective habit and why we don’t. Kotter also stresses its importance as a continual learning tool. Kotter also stresses its importance as a continual learning tool. Are we spending our time on the right issues?

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 25, 2018

A coach’s use of powerful questions helps the leader uncover new angles to the change initiative. As John Kotter, author of Leading Change , suggests, short-term wins reveal progress made, boost morale, and build positive momentum. I often hear client comments like, “I just needed to get what I’ve been thinking out of my head.”

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Coaching Tip

MAY 14, 2014

Kotter provides a powerful new "dual operating system" framework for competing and winning in a world of constant turbulence and disruption. Kotter: Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World. In its most basic sense, leadership is about mobilizing a group of people to jump into a better future.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2014

Reinventing Organizations : A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness by Frederic Laloux Based on three years of research, Reinventing Organizations describes the emergence of a new management paradigm, a radically more soulful, purposeful and powerful ways to structure and run any organization.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 18, 2016

The following is a guest piece by Kotter International President, Russell Raath on behalf of The Economist Executive Education Navigator. How often have you heard the phrase “that’s not how we do it here” uttered in your workplace? And then those leaders need to demonstrate that behavior too. “Do Do as I do, not only as I say.”

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Six Disciplines

MARCH 28, 2011

A few years back, change management guru, John Kotter, published his latest book, A Sense of Urgency. Kotter has written about urgency before. For a quick review, here's Kotters " Eight Steps To Transform Your Organization ": Establish a Sense of Urgency. Form a Powerful Guiding Coalition. Create a Vision.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 26, 2016

Kotter and James L. Who wouldn’t want to achieve results similar to those reported by Kotter and Heskett? As was presented in the study by Kotter and Heskett, financial rewards are often how such change is initiated. Twenty years ago, corporate or business culture sort of just happened…good, bad or indifferent. In 2005, J.

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LDRLB

AUGUST 18, 2010

John Kotter’s (1996) book leading change presents an eight-step model for facilitating change that closely follows Lewin’s (1951) three phases model. If we overlay these two models, we see the first three stages of Kotter’s model providing insight on how to unfreeze an organization. Form a powerful coalition.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 5, 2011

John Kotter has identified what he believes are the eight most common mistakes that are made and what he doesn’t know about the subject really isn’t worth knowing. Most change initiatives fail or at least fall far short of original expectations and reasons vary from one debacle to the next. As is frequently the case [.].

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LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Our latest podcast episode featured Teresa Amabile of Harvard Business School talking about the power of progress on individual motivation and performance. We capped off our series on change by reviewing Kotter’s 8-stage change model. Bret Simmons discussed the dangers of holding back. Tim Vanderpyl structured creativity.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

What this culture valued was hierarchical power and the intrinsic belief that higher leaders know more than lower folks and therefore, the higher ranks lead. Before we blame the CEO as a bad, old-fashioned leader, let’s check again: all other people complied. Maybe it was unpleasant for some, but it was normal.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2012

John Gabarro and John Kotter give good advice in their Harvard Business Review article Managing Your Boss. Develop a positive relationship with your boss. If you forge ties with your boss based on mutual respect and understanding, both of you will be more effective. Are you proud to work for your company?

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

A Harvard Business School professor, Kotter emphasises a comprehensive eight-step framework that can be followed by executives at all levels. The eight steps are: 1) Create Urgency, 2) Form a Powerful Coalition, 3) Create a Vision for Change, 4) Communicate the Vision, 5) Remove Obstacles, 6) Create Short-term Wins, 7) Build on the Change.

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The difference is that the locus of power for disruptive leadership is usually institutional (based on coercion, rewards, or one’s position in the organization), while the main source of power of charismatic leaders is the person’s qualities (referent power). They share this characteristic with disruptive leaders.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2011

This is perhaps one of the earliest accounts of leadership, but one of the most powerful. That said, this rule doesn’t apply to professor Kotter. Xenophon’s Cyrus the Great - If you struggle with leading in a complex culture, then you’ll find there is much to be gleaned from Cyrus the Great.

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The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 24, 2011

John Kotter and James Heskett’s classic book, Corporate Culture and Performance , is an organization development classic. The book provided solid evidence of the payoffs that come from adaptive cultures and the negative power of unadaptive cultures. . Adaptability is absolutely critical today.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

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. When we rely on other people to motivate us, we are putting the power into their hands.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Not surprisingly, many well-known leadership book authors made the list, such as authors: Drucker Kotter Maxwell Welch Interestingly, the discussion thread, particularly within the Linked 2 Leadership group of LinkedIn, generated debate about the value and quality of some of the book recommendations.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 25, 2012

Not surprisingly, many well-known leadership book authors made the list, such as authors: Drucker Kotter Maxwell Welch Interestingly, the discussion thread, particularly within the Linked 2 Leadership group of LinkedIn, generated debate about the value and quality of some of the book recommendations.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 10, 2018

” –John Kotter. “Leadership requires using power to influence the thoughts and actions of other people.” After decades of coaching powerful executives around the world, Lolly Daskal has observed that leaders rise to their positions relying on a specific set of values and traits. ” –A.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Not surprisingly, many well-known leadership book authors made the list, such as authors: Drucker Kotter Maxwell Welch Interestingly, the discussion thread, particularly within the Linked 2 Leadership group of LinkedIn, generated debate about the value and quality of some of the book recommendations.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

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. There is no doubt that strong culture translates into a powerful competitive advantage. Jason Richmond.

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Not surprisingly, many well-known leadership book authors made the list, such as authors: Drucker Kotter Maxwell Welch Interestingly, the discussion thread, particularly within the Linked 2 Leadership group of LinkedIn, generated debate about the value and quality of some of the book recommendations.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2018

Kotter — “You are not going to change either your basic personality structure or that of your boss. Gabarro and John P. But you can become aware of what it is about you that impedes or facilitates working with your boss and, with that awareness, take actions that make the relationship more effective.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

Because the boss is the one with the greater power to act. It is in this context, the next year, that HBS professor John Gabarro and a young associate professor, John Kotter, come up with what will become a powerfully enduring response that for the first time recognized that subordinates could do something to help themselves.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

John Kotter, the renowned scholar on change management, suggests that successful change requires management to create opportunities for ‘short term wins,’ thereby repetitively reinforcing positive steps along the path to change. For an organization as a whole, the analysis of recurring root causes is a powerful tool of continuous improvement.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2017

The combination of predictive analytics, large data sets, and the processing power of today’s computers is starting to transform change management. The most popular managerial approach to change management is John Kotter’s eight-step model. It’s time for that to change.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

My colleagues and I at Kotter International have found again and again that a sense of urgency around a big opportunity can create powerful and sustainable action. And when truth becomes known, the damage is usually already done. What to do? The opportunity must be real and clear, of course.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Its success confirmed the power of an informal network for shifting behaviors in our large company. To help its implementation we appointed 40 WeSolve coaches: people from different offices around the world who were excited by the initiative and prepared to devote some discretionary time to it. More than 600 were selected.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

Sometimes, it seems they've always loomed large: for decades, Michael Porter has been synonymous with strategy, and John Kotter with change management. It's often hard to deduce how someone becomes known as a leader in their field. Other times, the explosion onto the scene is fast and furious.

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Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 17, 2015

In “ The Heart of Change ”, John Kotter and Dan Cohen discuss a study they conducted with Deloitte Consulting about the nature of change. Using other people’s backstory as a frame for your message can be a powerful way to unlock hearts quickly and move them to action. In a business setting, a logical argument is expected, of course.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 12, 2011

Bacon is a Scholar in Residence in the Korn/Ferry Institute. Previously, he was founder and CEO of Lore International Institute. He has a B.S. in engineering from West Point and a PhD in literary studies from The American University.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Twenty years ago, John Kotter pegged the failure rate at 70% and the needle hasn’t moved much since. Unlocking the power of purpose through teams. Not everyone was touched by the work right away, but the network effect was powerful. Organizational transformation is notoriously difficult.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2016

It’s exactly the kind of stress you want, because it counteracts the powerful inertia of habit. This magic zone is what John Kotter referred to as the “Productive Range of Distress.” Those out-of-date behaviors produce subpar results and the growing gap in performance creates tension.

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