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28 Great Quotes to Inspire and Manage Change

Great Results Team Building

Dr. If your group needs help navigating the frustration or challenges that change has created and could benefit from the laughter and lessons that a fun team building event, a two hour training workshop , or an entertaining conference message would provide, I encourage you to contact me !'

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Video Book Club: A Sense of Urgency

Next Level Blog

Posted by: Jon Latzer | June 29, 2010 at 01:44 PM Love Kotter's work. I also share my big take away from the book not it’s not just about the facts, it’s about something else. Conversely, I watch those that are constantly moving with a "sense of urgency" but don't seem to produce or get much accomplished. Good take on it.

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Book Reviews and My Recommended Reading List

The Practical Leader

In the past few months I’ve been asked by workshop participants and readers for my recommendations on organization improvement, leadership, or personal development books. I have read about 30 leadership books including Maxwell, Kouzes & Posner, Kotter, and Schein. I am going to get more of your books.

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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. I had forgotten about them because I get stressed with the things I don’t like as much.

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Fostering Employee Innovation at a 150-Year-Old Company

Harvard Business Review

Inspired by John Kotter’s dual-operating structure model, we asked all of these employees to maintain their “day jobs” within the established hierarchy, while also using 5-10% of their time to work on fast-cycle, informal innovation projects across silos. More than 600 were selected. It is also a highly contagious.

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Data Can Do for Change Management What It Did for Marketing

Harvard Business Review

When a change practitioner talks about data, typically that is qualitative information, generated by a root cause analysis workshop or similar. The most popular managerial approach to change management is John Kotter’s eight-step model. To date, change management has not been based on a data-driven model.