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Leading (Personal) Change

Lead Change Blog

Kotter’s best selling book Leading Change as part of a group assignment in my workplace. Kotter’s eight-stage process for managing organizational change sparked lively discussion. Our leadership team spent time considering our organizational challenges and how we might apply the eight stage process.

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Borderless jobs and agile structures: How to build a future-proof organisation

Chartered Management Institute

What they do not do well is identify the most important hazards and opportunities early enough, formulate creative strategic initiatives nimbly enough, and implement them fast enough.” – John Kotter, Harvard Business School Business disruption, societal upheaval and rapid technological shifts bring constant pressure for organisations to innovate.

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A Selection of Readings From the Core Masterclass

The Office Blend Blog

If you read my work, you are likely familiar with my stance on the internal stability of a team or organization. John Kotter. Following this thread, I thought it might be appropriate to share a few articles from the The Core Masterclass reading list — which is designed to build awareness about this very topic. Happy reading.

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Motivating, Mentoring and Measuring – Leading Unfamiliar Organizations

General Leadership

Conversations with Bill Ford , the former CEO, industry experts and his team leaders helped him understand the direction he needed to steer. As John Kotter wrote in his article Accelerate! , “Communicate the vision and the strategy to create buy-in and attract a growing volunteer army.”

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Leading Change – Lessons for New Leaders from Satya Nadella

Great Leadership By Dan

It’s a clear, simple drumbeat that his team can rally around. Get the right team together In any organization that needs to make a break with the past, the new leader will need to work quickly to ensure the team at the top shares a vision for the organization’s future. Kotter Microsoft Randy Ottinger Satya Nadella'

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Success: A Breeding Ground for Complacency?

Great Leadership By Dan

Here's another exclusive guest post from John Kotter. Here are some questions you can ask to determine whether complacency has set in among your employees: • Are team conversations inwardly focused, and not about new markets, emerging technologies or potential competitors? • Success is a lousy teacher.

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Executive Coaching and Leading Change

Lead Change Blog

A coach also encourages the leader to pause and celebrate these accomplishments with his team. As John Kotter, author of Leading Change , suggests, short-term wins reveal progress made, boost morale, and build positive momentum. The post Executive Coaching and Leading Change appeared first on Lead Change.