Topic: John Kotter

How I Downsized Myself

After 22 weeks of dieting, I keep thinking back to a much-discussed article we published more than five years ago in Fast Company. Called "Change or Die." It was a bracing reminder of how hard it is for people to make deep-seated changes in their habits, even when they know the price of failure may be death.READ»

Dan Heath: Want Your Organization to Change? Put Feelings First

[video_twistage 1 protect]When we want people to change, we try to teach them something. We think if my Dad just understood the health complications obesity causes, he’d eat healthier. Or if my teenager just understood the danger of ...READ»

How America's Top Military Officer Uses Business to Boost National Security

Admiral Mike Mullen says the sea was his business. Now, as America's top military officer, he's reshaping strategy for a world in which economics and security are intertwined.READ»

• Mullen on the Move
• Military Time
• The Military-Industrial Complex

The Impact of Google’s "China Syndrome" on Your Business Strategy

Google's short-term decision to redirect Chinese searches may feel like a huge commercial meltdown. In reality, they are paving the way for more companies to courageously lead from our values, not our wallets.READ»

The Insanity of Change Management

I’ve been thinking recently about definition of insanity attributed to Albert Einstein: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. The way we have been approaching change perhaps doesn’t qualify as insane, but it begs the question whether conventional change management methodologies need some serious innovation.READ»

Organizational change remains notoriously elusive

The Harvard Business Review (HBR) weekly poll cites John Kotter's definitive work on leading change featured in the well known HBR article, Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail. "Although Kotter’s advice for ...READ»

CHANGING? YOU FIRST……….!

 It is an open door to talk about all the change that is necessary and all the change programs that are work in process.   However, there is also plenty of evidence (McKinsey, IBM) that the majority of the changes ...READ»

INNOVATION AND CONTINUOUS LEARNING ARE INSEPARABLE

The enormous amount of change requires an almost equal speed in learning. Changes are in so many areas like new technologies, new government guidelines, global markets or social media/networking. Also it is crucial to not only ...READ»

Aiming high ye blogger?

Aiming high ye blogger? Keep trying…you may actually end up as a powerful expert blogger in your field.READ»

“Fairness” of Flexible Alternatives to Layoffs

Professor Tom Davenport of Babson College recently wrote an interesting post on blogs.harvardbusiness.org entitled, “Is Forced Time Off Fair?”  He challenges the “fairness” of flexible labor cost savings strategies such as ...READ»

It’s Not Just the Market…Other Roadblocks to Flexible Downsizing as Alternative to Layoffs

Last week I discussed the ways in which market pressures reward layoffs, discouraging more creative approaches to corporate downsizing.  I believe that market pressure is a main motivation behind the immediate jump to ...READ»

Creating Authentic Engagement for Change

Most of my work is with senior managers and executives, helping them to implement large-scale change using participation and engagement to create buy-in and support.There are three conditions that require change leaders to shift from ...READ»

Who is the better change leader: Obama or McCain?

Harvard prof John Kotter is one of the foremost authorities on change leadership. I thought it would be interesting to apply Kotter’s eight-step process for implementing successful transformation to our two candidates for ...READ»

Library of the Living Dead

Embrace a business best seller at your brain's peril.READ»

The Three Keys to Change

In this excerpt from the introduction to his new book, Change or Die: The Three Keys to Change at Work and in Life, Alan Deutschman discusses the framework to successfully change yourself.READ»

The Promise of Fast Education

Roger Martin Roger Martin is the dean of the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. He was appointed to a seven-year term beginning on September 1, 1998. A Canadian from Wallenstein, Ontario, Martin was ...READ»

Can Leadership Be Taught?

John Coné John Coné joined Dell in 1995 as vice president of education and president of Dell University. In that role, he has been responsible for the education of all Dell employees worldwide. Since joining Dell, Coné has ...READ»

To Be King

"There is a growing legion of business people who are hungry to build something of enduring character on a set of values they can be proud of." -- Jim Collins, "Built to Last" For the 75th anniversary issue of the Harvard Business ...READ»

Mission: Impossible?

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is battling to transform itself in an age of technology and terrorism. It may be the toughest, most important change effort of our time.READ»

Cultural Phenomenon

Umpqua Bank is changing the culture of customer service at banks, one ice-cream sandwich at a time.READ»

Change or Die

All leadership comes down to this: changing people's behavior. Why is that so damn hard? Science offers some surprising new answers -- and ways to do better.READ»

Everything You Wanted to Know About Courage... But Were Afraid to Ask.

We asked some of the world's foremost leadership thinkers 15 questions to get to the core of courage.READ»

Arranging Change

There's an interesting blog discussion going on between Frank Patrick's Focused Performance and Gaping Void about what drives change -- new tools, or new processes and relationships among peers. The respective entries -- and the ...READ»

Thought Leaders: The Next 30

So many people are interested in who else is on this list and where they rank that I thought it would be helpful to share with you the next 30. So here they are: 21. Jeffrey Pfeffer 22. Philip Kotler 23. Robert C. Merton 24. C.K. ...READ»