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2 Attributes of Great Change Leaders

Organizational Talent Consulting

In an environment of perpetual change, the enemy of great change leadership is good change management. Good change management involves minimizing disruptions, avoiding costly mistakes, and control. In contrast, great change leadership maximizes business speed, efficiency, and innovation.

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After a Merger, Don’t Let “Us vs. Them” Thinking Ruin the Company

Harvard Business

Consider this example: When The Interpublic Group (IPG) merged the direct-marketing company Draft with the ad-agency Foote Cone & Belding (FCB) to become one agency in 2006, “it was immediately apparent that the cultures of the two agencies were wildly different,” shared Marty Stock, then head of Coors advertising at FCB.

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The Reinvention of NASA

Harvard Business

First, the frontier technologies that NASA needed were not already available on the market; they had to be developed from scratch by specialized contractors. The transitional model (from 1993 – 2006): This phase kicked off with the International Space Station project. It invested more in external communication.

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Your Organization Wastes Time. Here’s How to Fix It.

Harvard Business

Look closely, and you’ll find that most companies have stretched their brands and product portfolios to customers and markets in which they are undifferentiated and profits are weak. While the former approach is friendlier from a change management perspective, we usually find that it leads to only incremental change.

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