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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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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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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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

The new work contract – where employees take responsibility for their own careers and corporations provide them with career-enhancing but impermanent opportunities – can be as difficult for organizations to manage as it is for individuals. We must manage our human assets with the same rigor we devote to our financial assets.

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Coaching Tip

JUNE 1, 2016

Basing the way you operate in the past, which is what best practices tell you to do, doesn’t equip you to navigate change. Source : John Kotter: That's Not How We Do It Here!: Secrets to gleaning “buy-in” from top leadership. A Story about How Organizations Rise and Fall--and Can Rise Again.

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Management Craft

DECEMBER 7, 2011

If due to resistance, lack of clarity, or operational challenges a trigger does not flip, then we may become stuck in the old way. As William Bridges wrote in Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change , “to begin you must first end.” As these triggers are flipped, we move forward in the transition process.

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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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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Organizations that fail to continuously revise assumptions about their operating environment (i.e. Information overload is the management crisis of the 21stcentury. Fighter Pilots and Special Operations teams have discovered and used a secret to continuous improvement – a tool every enterprise can benefit from.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2014

John Kotter , author of Accelerate , on how slow-footed organizations can get faster. Change management Operations Strategy' Download this podcast.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2021

Whether it's the death of a friend, loss of a job, a bad break-up, or the isolation of Covid-19, those who manage to be where their feet are will grow, stretch and emerge stronger, smarter, and more prepared as we find peace and gratitude in the pause. Kotter with Vanessa Akhtar and Gaurav Gupta. We need to make our interactions count.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Millions worldwide have read and embraced John Kotter's ideas on change management and leadership. Leading Change is widely recognized as his seminal work on leading transformational change, and is an important precursor to his newer ideas on acceleration: effectively managing operations while seizing new opportunity.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Most importantly, cutting across all these initiatives, we created the network of senior and mid-level managers to connect and inspire people to get engaged in innovation. A manager might be struggling with an overly complex process or a new digital competitor. Building an agile network. More than 600 were selected.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

To address these questions, Coty partnered with Kotter International to implement a broad global change management program. Kotter’s book Accelerate.). This included a call for action — “Act Today, Shape Tomorrow” — that was backed by Coty’s senior management. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2017

One area so far relatively untouched is change management. The combination of predictive analytics, large data sets, and the processing power of today’s computers is starting to transform change management. But before that can happen, we have to understand why data has failed to catch on in change management to date.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Yet most reports, such as John Kotter's classic Harvard Business Review article " Leading Change: Why Transformation Effort Fail ," show that few attempts at fundamental change are very successful, a few are utter failures, and most fall somewhere in between, with a distinct tilt to failure. People resist change that is imposed on them.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Twenty years ago, John Kotter pegged the failure rate at 70% and the needle hasn’t moved much since. Yet, a variety of financial and operational problems impeded success and we lacked a clear strategic path toward building the kind of coordinated care delivery system healthcare desperately needs. Rounding and listening.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

I have found that with less than 50% of managers and employees feeling that urgency, you’re very vulnerable to failure. Moreover, because of the way perception and information get filtered in our management-driven hierarchies, it can be very difficult to distinguish false from true urgency. What to do?

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2014

Reinventing Organizations : A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness by Frederic Laloux Based on three years of research, Reinventing Organizations describes the emergence of a new management paradigm, a radically more soulful, purposeful and powerful ways to structure and run any organization.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

McDonald and his team’s approach was heavily influenced by John Kotter’s eight steps for effective organizational change. Measure performance carefully and manage with an eye on what’s most important to customers. ” Build a capacity for learning and continuous improvement.

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