Category: Leadership

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The Dark Side of Leading Change

Post author By Mark
Post date June 14, 2022
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How university academics encouraged coercive persuasion, manipulation and aggression in the development of leadership.

Tags Bullying, Coercive Persuasion, Leadership Ethics, leading change, Questioning Kotter, Toxic Culture, Unethical leadership examples?, What is the negative side of leadership?, What should you not do during leading change?

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How Studying Organizational Change Lost its Way

Post author By Mark
Post date January 31, 2022
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How did evaluating change and change agency debates misunderstand and misrepresent depictions of change failure?

Tags 70 per cent change failure, Change Failure Rate, Harvard Business Review, Leading Change Success, Organizational change tends to fail

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5 Common Overcoming Resistance to Change Misunderstandings

Post author By Mark
Post date April 12, 2021
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Is overcoming resistance to change the solution or the problem?

Tags Coch and French 1948, How to overcome resistance to change?, Why is change resisted?

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Leading Changes: Why Transformation Explanations Fail

Post author By Mark
Post date June 22, 2019
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A critique of Professor Kotter’s infamous Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail paper.

Tags Critique of Leading Change, Do transformation efforts fail?, Harvard Business School, Professor John Kotter, Transformation Failure