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Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail By John P. Kotter
Harvard Business Review January 2007
Leaders who successfully transform businesses do eight things right (and they do them in the right order).
Editor's Note: Guiding change may be the ultimate test of a leader- no business survives over the long term if it can't reinvent itself. But, human nature being what it is, fundamental change is often resisted mightily by the people it most affects: those in the trenches of the business. Thus, leading change is both absolutely essential and incredibly difficult.
Perhaps nobody understands the anatomy of organizational change better than retired Harvard Business School professor John P. Kotter. This article, originally published in the spring of 1995, previewed Kotter's 1996 book Leading Change. It outlines eight critical success factors: from establishing a sense of extraordinary urgency, to creating short-term wins, to changing the culture ("the way we do things around here"). It will feel familiar when you read it, in part because Kotter's vocabulary has entered the lexicon and in part because it contains the kind of home truths that we recognize, immediately, as if we'd always known them. A decade later, his work on leading change remains definitive.
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Building Personal Resiliency in Times of Rapid Change by Alicia M. Rodriguez Comments (0) Strategic agility and customer responsiveness are essential to the success of organizations today. The culture of speed, competition and the rapid changes brought on by technology and globalization cause many executives and managers to struggle to move ahead of the competition within and outside their organizations.
Changing How Leaders Lead Change Alexander Caillet of Accompli Accompli's approach to change leadership is summarized in this document, excerpts from a presentation made by Accompli Partner Alexander Caillet in November 2005 in Milan, at the 3d annual conference of the Italian Coaching Federation.
“Don't Wait for a Crisis” by Robert Gunn & Betsy Bullickson
How to remain calm and clear-headed, sorting through possible step in a crisis and also in everyday business free
“Being Here” by Edward Teach
Making big changes in a business is always difficult. Can managers make it easier by mastering the art of “presence”? free
“Does Power Corrupt?” by Robert Gunn & Betsy Bullickson
Like sand in a gearbox, manager misbehavior - even mundane ethical shadings - gums up the works of an organization free
“How to Stop Worrying” by Robert Gunn & Betsy Bullickson
Like water coursing downhill, anxiety can carve deep channels in a leader's very core -- with harmful effects on his organization free
“The Antidote to Burnout” by Robert Gunn & Betsy Bullickson
Stress is exacerbated by thought habits that act like a clogged water filter in the mind free
Coaching With the Brain in Mind
BOOK: Become a better coach by understanding how the brain works; its neuroscience meets coaching.
Treating Trauma and Traumatic Grief in Children and Adolescents
BOOK: This is one of the first books to present a systematic treatment approach, grounded in cognitive-behavioral therapy, for traumatized children and their families.
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Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail 
Building Personal Resiliency in Times of Rapid Change by Alicia M. Rodriguez 
Changing How Leaders Lead Change Alexander Caillet of Accompli 
