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Leadership Pressure is a Privilege

Organizational Talent Consulting

Theodore Roosevelt Reason #1: Pressure Accelerates Change One reason to embrace pressure is that pressure accelerates change, and leadership is about change. In the book Leading Change, renowned change management thought leader John Kotter identified that overcoming complacency to change requires a sense of urgency.

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We May Not Have a Clear Path, But We Each Have One

Harmonious Workplaces

Rita and manage others at Blockbuster and combine them to develop and implement training for salespeople, operations staff, cashiers, and line managers. In 2001, Michael hired a no-name like me after an informational interview to become the Associate Marketing Director for GIA Publications. That’s a lot of bending!

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How Volvo Reinvented Itself Through Hiring

Harvard Business

Many legacy companies would like to transform themselves into agile, talent-first organizations. But when some CEOs in this position look at the people they employ, they discover a problem: a swath of their existing team doesn’t have the necessary skills or metabolism for change to meet the new challenges.

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How the World’s Oldest Company Reinvented Itself

Harvard Business

By 2011 the pulp and paper giant — the world’s oldest corporation, dating back to 1288 — had laid off over one-third of its 30,000 employees. ” Among a number of initiatives to kindle the transformation, Stora Enso took a novel approach to change management. Matt Lyon/Getty Images.

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