Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 14, 2011

Kotter: Leadership complements management; it doesn't replace it. Management controls people by pushing them in the right direction; leadership motivates them by satisfying basic human needs. Strong leadership with weak management is no better, and sometimes actually worse, than the reverse.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2014

John Kotter provides that extra something we need in Accelerate (XLR8). He writes that management-driven hierarchies are “still absolutely necessary to make organizations work.” Much more leadership, not just management. In order to reliably maintain an organization nothing beats a well-organized and well-developed hierarchy.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

Here are a selection of tweets from September 2018 that you might have missed: Empathy and creative thinking are valuable skills in the workplace, but they’re hard to teach by @Lyndagratton Frustrated or Focused - Leadership Tips for Managing Emotions by @davidmdye. For Aspiring Managers— Why You Will Love Managing by @artpetty.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

John Kotter was right; an atmosphere of urgency will create an atmosphere of exceptional or extraordinary achievement. Communications Crisis Management Leadership Public Relations Rants Strategy avoid crisis Crisis Leadership ferguson learning risk Risk' Follow me on Twitter @SkippersBiz. Photo by Ted Etyan and edited by N2Growth.

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Leadership Freak

JANUARY 5, 2017

That’s Not How We Do it Here, John Kotter. Over-managed organizations… Continue reading → If you’re not learning, you’re dying. 5 insights I learned from top authors in 2016 #1. Organizations need both disruption and stability to thrive.

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Leadership Freak

JANUARY 5, 2017

That’s Not How We Do it Here, John Kotter. Over-managed organizations… Continue reading → If you’re not learning, you’re dying. 5 insights I learned from top authors in 2016 #1. Organizations need both disruption and stability to thrive.

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Nathan Magnuson

MAY 20, 2013

It’s been said that the term “change management” is a misnomer because if you are trying to “manage” change, you’re already too far behind! Because of that, when I first discovered John Kotter’s eight stage process for creating major change in a university textbook (and published in his [.].

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The Office Blend Blog

JANUARY 2, 2024

Management is (Still) Not Leadership. John Kotter. While the elements that contribute to organizational core stability (clarity of mission, etc.) and individual core stability (psychological safety, etc.) are somewhat different — they work together to build healthy, productive work environments. Happy reading. Marla Gottschalk, HBR.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 24, 2014

For instance, Nadella drove home his mobile/cloud and productivity agenda early in his tenure with the release of Office for iPad, the elimination of licensing fees for Windows on smartphones and smaller tablets and the release of hybrid cloud management tools for Azure. Kotter Microsoft Randy Ottinger Satya Nadella'

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 10, 2012

Here's another exclusive guest post from John Kotter. Kotter is the chief innovation officer of Kotter International , a firm that helps leaders accelerate strategy implementation in their organizations. John and his colleagues at Kotter International write the Change Leadership blog on Forbes.com.

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Every HR, OD professional, and management consultant should at the very least be aware of their existence, if not well-versed in their ideas and theories. In one of the defining management studies carried out in the 90s, Collins and his team complied a list of 1,435 companies in search of those special few that could truly be called “great.”

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Great Results Team Building

JUNE 12, 2014

This list of 28 great quotes to inspire and help manage change may be useful to remind yourself and your coworkers of the needs and benefits that motivate successful people to not only welcome it, but to become advocates and champions for progress. 1. “The rate of change is not going to slow down anytime soon.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Yes, certainly, there are more than a handful of organizations that manage not only to change, but to set the pace for everyone else. Dr. John Kotter explains some of it in a video here – but there are a few things worth reinforcing. change innovation John Kotter Russell Raath strategy' They do more than cope. They thrive.

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Coaching Tip

MAY 14, 2014

The first answer is the nature of management and the nature of leadership. Our misunderstanding of this issue makes us believe that a management-driven hierarchy with competent executives at the top ought to be able to guide an organization to move faster, be more agile and thrive. Management is not Leadership. Why is this?

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Management Craft

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

I like this post from John Kotter on his Forbes blog called, How to Retain the Heroes Within Your Workforce. And this begs a question - if you are a manager, does this mean that you should change things, manufacture challenges, adjust work tasks, to ensure that your top talent does not get bored or feeling like their work is not meaty enough?

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Change and Continuity - Mintzberg And Kotter Agree - You Must Manage Both by @profkjmoore. Find Your Blind Spot: A Self-Reflection Activity for Managers by @petefriedes. Doing Leadership. Part 1 of 6 by @Mark_Sanborn. Read " The Art of Receiving " by @LollyDaskal. The Many Faces of Greed by @FSonnenberg.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 25, 2018

Leading change is more challenging than managing a project that has defined beginning and end points. As John Kotter, author of Leading Change , suggests, short-term wins reveal progress made, boost morale, and build positive momentum. A coach also encourages the leader to pause and celebrate these accomplishments with his team.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 12, 2014

Bob''s blog entries Brilliant Mistakes Brooke Manville Charles Rossotti Compusearch Executive Suite IntelliVen James O''Toole John Kotter Judgment Calls Leading Change Manage to Lead: Seven Truths to Help You Change the World Paul Schoemaker Peter Drucker Peter F.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 23, 2014

Karl''s blog entries Bill Lee Citi College of Business Creative Commumnication Network inclusive John Kotter Jossey-Bass Karl Krayer Leading Change Managing Change MBA Organizing Change Pfeiffer San Francisco. systematic systemic University of Dallas urgency William Lee'

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 18, 2016

The following is a guest piece by Kotter International President, Russell Raath on behalf of The Economist Executive Education Navigator. Are staff members empowered to test new ideas and report back to management on their successes, as part of helping the organization constantly adapt and improve? Do as I do, not only as I say.”

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Chartered Management Institute

APRIL 18, 2024

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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In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 28, 2012

In the early days of my 40 year business career, I was lucky to work under two gentlemen who instilled several critical success factors that guided me from Brand Manager to CEO. At the risk of this blog appearing as an advertorial for Harvard, I’ll gladly admit that Harvard Business Review was my favorite management resource.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Karl Ronn is the managing director of Innovation Portfolio Partners. Based in Palo Alto, he helps Fortune 500 companies create new businesses or helps entrepreneurs start category creating new companies. He is a co-founder of VC-backed Butterfly Health that sells Butterfly body liners nationally.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 19, 2018

The In Search of Excellence author, Tom Peters utilizes the term “management by walking around”. I often tell upper management that they have earned their stripes and that I view them as “the Elder council”. This concept is combated by leadership that is visible and communicative at all levels. This is leadership!

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 26, 2016

Kotter and James L. Heskett published their 10-year research project – “ Corporate Culture and Performance ” – in which they compared companies that intentionally managed their cultures to similar companies that did not. Here are some of their findings: Managed Their Cultures Revenue growth of 682 percent. In 2005, J.

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QAspire

JANUARY 1, 2012

Business ecosystem is rapidly changing – and as a student of personal and organizational change, I recently re-read Dr. John Kotter’s book (published in 2008) titled “A Sense of Urgency”. Dr. Kotter also goes on to explain that our major issue is not complacency – but a lot of false sense of urgency.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 28, 2015

Shinseki Field Manual 22-100 [comma] Army Leadership Frances Hesselbein Jack Welch James Kouzes and Barry Posner John Gardner Patrick Lencioni John Kotter Jossey-Bass/Leader to Leader Institute; 1st edition (2004) Oliver Wendell Holmes Peter Drucker Richard E. Marine Corps Book of Strategy (Tactics for Managing Confrontation)'

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Change Starts Here

JUNE 3, 2014

You don’t have to be in or near the field of change management long before you hear a daunting statistic: 70% of change initiatives fail. It’s mentioned in passing as a fact in most change management books and articles nowadays. Is change management challenging? ” How do they know?

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The Office Blend Blog

MARCH 31, 2020

Management is (Still) Not Leadership. John Kotter. While the elements that contribute to organizational core stability (clarity of mission, etc.) and individual core stability (psychological safety, etc.) are somewhat different — they work together to build healthy, productive work environments. Happy reading. Marla Gottschalk, HBR.

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Six Disciplines

MARCH 28, 2011

A few years back, change management guru, John Kotter, published his latest book, A Sense of Urgency. Kotter has written about urgency before. For a quick review, here's Kotters " Eight Steps To Transform Your Organization ": Establish a Sense of Urgency. it's also a topic we focus on a lot here at Six Disciplines.).

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Rapid BI

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Leadership and Management Models Download PowerPoint Slides – page 3b. At RapidBI we use many management and leadership models and through the process of using them we have developed a library of 100?s. This set contains the slides from all of our management, change, talent & leadership models slide sets. Kotter Change.

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CEO Blog

MARCH 25, 2011

One time management trick I almost always employ is to have "useful" things that need doing with me. One of the books I read during my "found time" was Buy in - Saving Your Good Idea from Getting Shot Down by John Kotter and Lorne Whitehead. I like John Kotters ' books and writings. And I found at 5:30, there is no traffic.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

According to leadership expert John Kotter , a lack of leadership vision is one of the most common reasons why transformational change efforts fail. It’s up to the branch office manager to have a vision for that office reconfiguration, or the move is going to be met with skepticism and resistance.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

And even though Kotter and Heskett showed that culture could account for a 20-30% better overall performance than similar competitors, many leaders and organizations don’t see how to develop a culture that enhances performance. .” You’re a new manager, and you’d better fit in! ” His heart was pounding.

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CO2

AUGUST 14, 2017

And Kotter International determined that, on average, 70% of new, large-scale strategic initiatives fall short of their goal, as did a similar McKinsey & Company 2009 study. These are pretty sobering statistics, given all the time and effort you and your management team likely put into the preparation of your strategic plan.

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Six Disciplines

JULY 8, 2011

According to John Kotter, change expert and author of "A Force For Change: How Leadership Differs from Management" there are eight reasons why change initiatives fail : Too much complexity. So goes the phrase: "If nothing changes, nothing changes.". Failure to building coalition and support.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2012

If you are a manager, these numbers should alarm you. John Gabarro and John Kotter give good advice in their Harvard Business Review article Managing Your Boss. But the news is not good. Perhaps you’ve had discussions about it or even tried to do something. Are you proud to work for your company?

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