Ron Edmondson

DECEMBER 7, 2021

You can manage the “knowns” with the right structure and systems. In closing, I’m reminded of this John Kotter quote: “Management is about coping with complexity. Of course, all of this points to a major difference in leading and managing.

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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. Managers on the other hand create systems based on the needs of their leaders.

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Management Craft

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Every large change – even something as seemingly straightforward as a new software system – involves changing what people do (tasks, roles, structures), how they do it (processes and habits), and why they do it (beliefs and values).

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LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Following Kotter’s (1996) five steps to empower people to effect change (p. Align information and personnel systems to support managers being more resourceful and helpful. 115), I’d recommend the following: 1. Communicate a vision of servant leadership to managers and employees. Make structures compatible with the vision.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 18, 2012

I have read about 30 leadership books including Maxwell, Kouzes & Posner, Kotter, and Schein. System, model, or framework: do the chapters connect together and have an integrated approach or methodology? I am going to get more of your books. I was wondering if there are any other books you could particularly recommend.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2014

John Kotter provides that extra something we need in Accelerate (XLR8). It is a dual operating system. A second system that is organized as a network that works in cooperation with the existing hierarchy. The second operating system does not take away from the existing organization but it adds to it, enhances it, feeds it.

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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. You developed a five-step system for culture change. Simply put, culture drives performance. ” -Jason Richmond.

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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. Since debriefs occur frequently, improvement is near continuous, and results are rapidly fed into the system.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2014

Kotter For most companies, the hierarchy is the singular operating system at the heart of the firm. But the reality is, this system simply is not built for an environment where change has become the norm. Leaders followers, and context form a system of leadership. Blog Post ). Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

In the book, he focuses on the importance of “systems thinking” to help transform a business into a “learning organisation.” A Harvard Business School professor, Kotter emphasises a comprehensive eight-step framework that can be followed by executives at all levels. ” 10. By John Whitmore.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

But because of the tiered and siloed system he or she operates in, the belief that all is well and that needed momentum rather than anxiety or panic is building, may be completely untrue. A competent and well-meaning executive may see a big opportunity and begin to act on it, assuming that others also see it and will follow accordingly.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2015

It’s been almost 10 years since HBR published John Kotter’s classic article,” Why Transformation Efforts Fail.” ” And although his suggestions for how to improve the odds have been widely accepted, the success rate of major corporate change programs remains essentially unchanged — it still hovers at 30%.

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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. Yet, a variety of financial and operational problems impeded success and we lacked a clear strategic path toward building the kind of coordinated care delivery system healthcare desperately needs.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Millions worldwide have read and embraced John Kotter's ideas on change management and leadership. Freshly designed and with a new preface by Kotter, Leading Change is a true leadership classic. Kotter and Dan S. Sustaining momentum — and remaining a great growth company — takes a system.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2016

This magic zone is what John Kotter referred to as the “Productive Range of Distress.” In the sales example, if you ask the Regional VP not to discuss any opportunities that are not in the system, your technology hold-outs will be left out of the discussion. Let’s get all of our automotive leads into the system.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Some maintained secret wait lists outside the system, officially adding patients 14 days before their scheduled appointments. McDonald and his team’s approach was heavily influenced by John Kotter’s eight steps for effective organizational change. Could the organization turn itself around?

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