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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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3 Tactics for Accelerating Company Performance Despite an Economic Downturn

Organizational Talent Consulting

Change management should be presented in a way that leads to different ways of thinking and acting. Organizational Development can support the implementation workshops with change models and activities for the workshops. Combined with leadership development, assessments can create a sense of urgency and motivation for change.

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

Harmonious Workplaces

I really handled every aspect of the human resources spectrum, including job analysis, selection, training and development, talent management, rewards and benefits structures, compliance, and termination. It meant something to me when our employees, Tony and Mike, said that I was their best boss. That’s a lot of bending!

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6 Organizational Culture Change Strategies

Organizational Talent Consulting

Culture Change Strategy #6: How leaders recruit, promote, and fire Who gets hired, promoted , and fired, and for what both creates and reinforces your organization's culture. The Journal of Product Innovation Management, 30 (4), 763-781. References: Büschgens, T., Bausch, A., & & Balkin, D. Cameron, K. & Quinn, R.

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Mergers & Acquisitions: The Importance of Creating a Shared Culture

Organizational Talent Consulting

A framework for the role of the human resource in managing culture in mergers and acquisitions. Human Resource Management, 50(6), 859-877. Diagnosing and changing organizational culture: Based on the competing values framework (Third ed.). A framework for the human resources role in managing culture in mergers and acquisitions.

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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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