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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. Patterson, K.

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How Diligent Biz Dev Led to a Six-Figure Consulting Project

Successful Independent Consulting

January 2015: I email Joe via LinkedIn: Hello Joe, I see you've been in your new job 6 months already. July 2015: Joe changes jobs again, going back to a company where he worked years before. Of course, let me know if you ever need any consulting talent. He replies: Will do Liz. I certainly hope it’s going well!

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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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How to Bring Out Your Best in the New Year

Organizational Talent Consulting

Here is a bonus link to an assembled collection of my top five personal favorite books from thought leaders on the topics of change management, coaching, culture, innovation and creativity, leadership style, servant leadership, and strategic planning. International Journal of Educational Management, 15(3), 119-124. Doolittle, J.

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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. Advanced culture change leadership. Aligning leadership and organizational culture: The leader-culture fit framework for coaching organizational leaders.

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How to Use Reflection to Bring Out Your Best in the New Year

Organizational Talent Consulting

Here is a bonus link to an assembled collection of my top five favorite books from thought leaders on change management, coaching, culture, innovation and creativity, leadership style, servant leadership, and strategic planning. Journal of Work-Applied Management. IDEAS Working Paper Series from RePEc. Gardner, S.

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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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