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There Is No Time To Hurry Up And Wait

N2Growth Blog

Chair, Organizational Development, N2Growth. So, whenever a leader or an organization adopts any new strategy, technology platform, methodology or approach, that adoption has to be driven by both a need and with leadership clarity.

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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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Leadership and Evolution

Coaching Tip

We are in the midst of a storm that has been increasing in intensity for decades, driven by advancing technology and global integration. Kotter provides a powerful new "dual operating system" framework for competing and winning in a world of constant turbulence and disruption. John Agno: Develop Leadership Skills: A Reference Guide .

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Consider: Harnessing the Power of Reflective Thinking in Your Organization

Leading Blog

While some situations required his immediate action, Forrester describes how Lincoln “developed ways to force time to think (if even only for a few minutes) before acting. Some organizations he has studied have adopted a no internal e-mail Friday policy and other ways to temporarily disconnect from technology. Consider isn’t a fad.

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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. Provide opportunities for development and involvement. . Five Trends .

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Buy-In – The Imperative Strategy

Strategy Driven

In providing research and developing training programs for various large corporations about managing change, we find that the biggest stumbling block for employees from top-down is lack of buy-in. To mitigate the lack of buy-in, Johns Kotter created an 8-step change process model the first step of which is to Increase the Urgency for Change.

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How to Avoid the Big Data "Gotcha's"

Harvard Business Review

The question on many business leaders' minds is this: Does the potential for accelerating existing business processes warrant the enormous cost associated with technology adoption, project ramp up, and staff hiring and training that accompany Big Data efforts? If you can't define the goal of a Big Data effort, don't pursue it.

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