The Practical Leader

APRIL 20, 2022

“First and foremost, purpose is about the strategic decisions and the operations of the firm. Leadership is an affair of the heart, not of the head.” ” Barry Posner and James M Kouzes, The Leadership Challenge: How to Keep Getting Extraordinary Things Done in Organizations.

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Sheth Heskett Drucker Leadership 81

The Practical Leader

JANUARY 11, 2023

Harvard Business School professor, James Heskett, poses a vital question in “Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?” A major focus of my writing and leadership/culture development career has been dealing with change. Here’s a few blogs/articles evolving from that work: An Agile Culture Ripples Out From the Leadership Team.

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Agility Heskett Armstrong Uncertainty 69

Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Yes, we could, but if you need to change it is useful to make culture also operational and look at the daily (inter)actions. So down-to-earth? Aren’t we supposed to formulate lofty core values, a vision and mission statement? Culture has had a bad press. No wonder that culture seems elusive, and not something you can get a grip on.

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Mission Statement Heskett CEO Fashion 275

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. Corporate leaders that operate with an ivory tower mentality are likely to find their tower tumbling down.

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How To Middle Management Reputation Short-term 111

The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 26, 2011

These are drawn from Harvard Business School professor, James Heskett’s new book, The Culture Cycle: How to Shape the Unseen Force That Transforms Performance : “Culture really matters. Cultures form with or without leadership, structure, or clear intent. Many have more than one.

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Heskett Competitive Advantage ROI Organization 49

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Heskett wrote in his latest book The Culture Cycle , effective culture can account for 20-30 percent of the differential in corporate performance when compared with "culturally unremarkable" competitors. But is there a direct correlation between employee investment and the balance sheet?

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