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There Is No Time To Hurry Up And Wait

N2Growth Blog

M aking any progress, process transformation or change across American communities and throughout the global business communities as usual is always hard and usually requires a significant investment of resources – people, finance and effort.

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A Survey of How 1,000 CEOs Spend Their Day Reveals What Makes Leaders Successful

Harvard Business Review

Although the algorithm is completely agnostic, the classification it generates closely resembles John Kotter’s distinction between “managers” and “leaders.” The most common departments for CEOs to meet with are production (35% of time spent with others), marketing (22%), and finance (17%).

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How to Get Health Care Employees Onboard with Change

Harvard Business Review

Twenty years ago, John Kotter pegged the failure rate at 70% and the needle hasn’t moved much since. Within a few years, we had dramatically turned around the organization’s finances, performance measures, and market share. Organizational transformation is notoriously difficult.