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Change

Six leadership transition lessons from the new CEO of Citigroup

3 June 2008

A leader is likely to be challenged by a number of leadership transitions as they develop and grow their careers. These transitions may be from team member to team leader, from manager to divisional leader or from director to CEO. Other difficult leadership transitions can occur as leaders move between companies or even between industries. [...]

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Focus your communication on the why and less on the how….

16 March 2008

Kevin’s Eikenberry has a great post that caught my eye titled "What to Communicate" discussing the importance of communication to leaders. I really believe that we do not spend enough time figuring out the why before we move on to figure out the how. Kevin reminds us of this principle by providing the following rule [...]

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The Three Journeys of Strategic Change

12 December 2007

The Anecdote Blog has an interesting post discussing "The Three Journeys" that organisations take as they seek to transform and implement their strategy.     Leader who are striving to bring about change and who are seeking to implement their strategies would do well to consider structuring their approach as the following three journeys: The [...]

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Four principles leaders can use to guide employees through disconcerting change….

6 November 2007

Bob Sutton posts on four principles that leaders can use to guide a "leader who [is]  implementing any change that employees will find disconcerting". The four key principles are prediction, understanding, control, and compassion and are described as follows: Prediction: Give people as much information as you can about what will happen — to them [...]

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How Do You Know If Your Change Will Stick?

5 September 2007

The article How Do You Know If Your Change Will Stick? provides a great list of diagnostic questions that can be used to assess if your organisational change is going to stick.   Requirement #1: A clear vision of your purpose and goal Why does this organization exist? What does the organization expect to accomplish by making [...]

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Book Review: The First 90 Days

19 August 2007

      The First 90 Days a Harvard business Review book by Micheal Watkins provides a guide for leaders making a transition from one role into a new one. Transitions are one of the most difficult times for most leaders. This book is an essential guide for leaders in transition…  “Transition failures happen when new leaders either [...]

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Change Management Lessons

11 August 2007

Kathrine Walsh discusses some of the lessons John Kotter, the author of ”Leading Change“ and ”The Heart of Change” has learnt, in the article ”Five Things I’ve Learned About Change“ I personally admire Jack Welch as a change leader. And I have learned many lessons from him. He’s said that “the world is moving in nanoseconds,” so you better damn [...]

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Three Principles of Change

23 July 2007

Photo by howlinhill   Dick Richards of the blog Come Gather Round provides the following three principles that assist in the leadership of change: In the realm of human activity, things change only after they are accepted for what they are. This principle is a slight variation of The Paradoxical Theory of Change. At a very simple [...]

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Change fails when employees don’t grasp the rationale for the change

22 July 2007

Research by ROI Communication on change and communication found that change programmes fail if employees don’t grasp the rationale for the change. Roger D’Aprix, vice president of ROI Communications found that: “the only way you can rationalize the change is by reference to the marketplace and the forces that are driving the organization…” It’s important when communicating [...]

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The Practice of Mindfulness

18 July 2007

The leadership practice of being fully present and in the moment is one of the most powerful and difficult leadership practices we can master. This state of being is captured by Lao-Tzu as follows: Do you have the patience to waittill your mud settles and the water is clear?Can you remain unmovingtill the right action arises by [...]

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