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John Kotter TV Interview
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By Andrew Greatrex on
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
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John Kotter's latest book Our Iceberg is Melting has raced into the top 100 Business Books with Amazon.com this week. For those interested clicking the below link will give you access to a recent TV interview he did on Boston Business. To view the interview click here.
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Our Iceberg is Melting - John P. Kotter Video Interview
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By Andrew Greatrex on
Saturday, October 07, 2006
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 The team at GLN have been long time fans of John P. Kotter. His new book 'Our Iceberg is Melting' is the best fable you will read - all in 45 minutes.
Our Iceberg Is Melting is based on Kotter’s pioneering work that shows how Eight Steps produce needed change in any sort of group. It’s a story that can be enjoyed by anyone while at the same time providing invaluable guidance for a world that keeps changing at ever faster rates.
Click here to watch this three (3) minute video interview.
John will be coming to Australia, New Zealand and Kuala Lumpur in July and August 2007. Copies of his new book will be available from Global Leaders Network on Monday 9 October 2006.
To purchase a copy or for obtaining further information please contact us at admin@globalleadersnetwork.net
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Our Global Future - New Zealand Launched
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By Andrew Greatrex on
Friday, October 06, 2006
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Global Leaders Network is delighted to launch its 'Our Global Future' series in New Zealand.
Featuring four of the world's leading experts on capability building and performance this promises to be an exceptional seminar for those leading and managing in organisations.
Keynote speakers include Professor C.K. Prahalad, Malcolm Gladwell, Daniel Pink and Goran Carstedt.
Click here to obtain further information or email us at events@globalleadersnetwork.net
One idea can change the world. Don’t miss out on the incredible information you will receive on this website resource!
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Malcolm Gladwell Interview
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By Andrew Greatrex on
Thursday, October 05, 2006
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It was fantastic to have just caught up with Malcolm Gladwell, author of Blink and The Tipping Point, while I was recently in New York. Below is an extract of the chat we had:
Your books the Tipping Point and Blink have had phenomenal success throughout the world, particularly for business leaders. What do you believe is the magic of these books and the message they send?
I wish I had a better answer for that question - I don’t really know. But I think these books are first of all intellectual ventures. They are trying to unravel the mysteries of everyday life in a way that I think is appealing. But they are mostly trying to kind of expose the structure of the way humans behave and to use kind of insights into psychology and geology to dig a little deeper and I think a lot of businesses look up when we talk about these things. So I think perhaps they satisfy readers on a different level than they’re used to being satisfied from a more conventional business book.
In the Tipping book you describe how ideas, products, messages and behaviours travel through our culture and in Blink how effective decisions are made. How do we develop our own individual intuitions leading to effective decision making?
Well intuition is a function of experience. What’s happening when we exercise intuition is we are drawing on our kind of unconscious database and the bigger that database is, the more sophisticated our intuition is. So the short answer is that we need to be exposed to a massive number of experiences in order to develop this kind of unconscious wisdom. The longer answer, I think, is that we can learn (I talk about this Blink) that there are situations where environments can construct that help people build their intuition more quickly. I am a big fan of, as paradoxical as it sounds, of structured spontaneity, of building structures, decision making structures which allow people to exercise their kind of spontaneous unconscious wisdom. You know our unconscious wisdom flourishes in our environments where we limit the amount of information on the table and if we want to help people make decisions we have to clear away that kind of debris and it gets them talking about this. With medical room doctors, sometimes the more limited information they know about patients allows them to exercise their judgment in a way that was quite impossible when they were inundated and flooded with data. So that is the kind of thing that I am trying to promote, that kind of, you know people sitting down and trying to understand the kind of situations that bring out the best in our thinking.
You said we live in a world that assumes that a quality of a decision is directly related to the time and effort that went in to making it. I gather you’re saying we spend too much time gathering the facts and information than getting on with the task at hand.
In part. I mean I think that we do have a tendency to over-analyse certain kinds of decisions and kind of naïve faith in the value of the marginal piece of information. So this feeling that I have 10 data points that things will only get better if I add an eleventh I’m not sure it’s true. Maybe in some situations but in most situations all we do is confuse ourselves. And when we do that we add the extra piece of information because it benefits us and psychologically makes it feel more certain. It doesn’t benefit the quality of the decision and I don’t think the function of decision making is just to make the decision maker feel better with what we’re doing. I think the function of decision making is to ensure the best possible decision. So let’s be clear about why we’re doing all the data gathering, it’s just so that we can sleep a little easier at night. It’s not enhancing the quality of the output.
An issue keeping many leaders awake at night is attracting and retaining the right people for an organization. Do you believe we often make the wrong decisions based on looks or what we hope we believe we want in a person, for example you used the example of the symphony orchestra where the musicians were playing behind a curtain.
I do. I think in fact few if you talk to psychologists they’ll tell you few things are done more poorly inside the business world than job interviews. Job interviews are tremendously difficult and not only do we not acknowledge that, but we do this in such a way that we almost guarantee we are going to make the wrong decision. Because the simple fact is that we are confronted with somebody who we don’t know, and we deal with them in a kind of naïve way, we follow romantic rules by which I mean are not really romantic rules, but we follow the same rules we follow when we go out on a date.
We tend to be drawn to those who are physically attractive, who are outgoing and charming and there are a small subset of jobs for which those are very criteria qualities. There’s selling perfume in a boutique, you must be outgoing and physically attractive and charming. For almost everything else in the business world those are way down the list. What we are interested in is honesty, conscientiousness, creativity, independence, resilience. These are not things that as human beings we can pick up easily in a face to face encounter, they require much more structure interaction. So this is a case where we understand the limitation of our instincts. Our instincts are great on these kinds of superficial physical things and they’re not so good when it comes to sense of these deeper character traits and businesses need to pay heed.
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New Website
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By Andrew Greatrex on
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
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Global Leaders Network is delighted to welcome you to our new website.
Our vision is to provide anyone interested in leadership or leading people with contemporary information that helps develop and mobilse them to action.
We have asked our incredible array of speakers including John P. Kotter (Harvard), Rosabeth Moss Kanter (Harvard), Manfred Kets de Vries (INSEAD), Gary Hamel (London Business School), Peter Senge (MIT), and a host of other brilliant minds to contribute regularly so please keep coming back to explore the possibilities.
The site, over the next few weeks, will provide a host of excellent resources including all the latest business books for you to purchase - so if you ever need anything let us be the first to help.
We would also love to hear from you at anytime with your suggestions so please email us at admin@globalleadersnetwork.net
One idea can change the world. Don’t miss out on the incredible information you will receive on this website resource!
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NPODS (National People & Organisational Development Summit)
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By Andrew Greatrex on
Tuesday, October 03, 2006
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Global Leaders Network is delighted to announce the launch today of NPODS 2007 to be held on 7 - 8 February 2007 in Sydney, Australia.
Speakers include C.K. Prahalad, Jim Collins (two way satellite), Malcolm Gladwell, Daniel Pink and Goran Carstedt.
The goal of our vibrant speakers is to mobilise their audience to action, spurring them to implement new ideas to your practices and to provide increased leadership in your sphere of activity.
Further information is available at www.npods.net or by just clicking the banner on the right hand side.
To celebrate the launch of this program and our new website we are offering this sensational two (2) day program for just $995 AUD (inc GST) for all registrations and payments until 6 October 2007. Be the first to reserve your tickets and save $500.
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Steve Simpson - Australia's Corporate Culture Guru
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By Andrew Greatrex on
Monday, October 02, 2006
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Australia's corporate cultural expert Steve Simpson this week spoke along with Harvard Business School's Rosabeth Moss Kanter in Canberra, Sydney and Melbourne.
Click here for a copy of the slides he used during his presentation.
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John P Kotter - Dealing With Change Faster and Better
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By Andrew Greatrex on
Sunday, October 01, 2006
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NEW YORK (Sept. 27) – The leadership and change guru at Harvard Business School, John Kotter and his co-author, Holger Rathgeber, have just published a highly engaging book that offers groups of all kinds a powerful method for dealing with change.
 Our Iceberg Is Melting is a simple fable about doing well in an ever-changing world. Based on the award-winning work from Kotter, it is a story that has been used to help thousands of people and scores of organizations.
Our Iceberg Is Melting has a lot of people talking. Here’s what some are saying:
“As a result of this book and my sharing it with a few people in the
organization, we have moved quickly on several fronts…It is making a difference for us.”
--Tom Curley, President and CEO, Associated Press
"To prepare for our Global Leadership Meeting, our management team read Our Iceberg Is Melting. It really helped us understand how we can successfully make the changes we need to make, what a positive effect change will have for our company and our people, and what an exciting journey it will be."
--William V. Hickey, President & CEO, Sealed Air
“With Our Iceberg Is Melting, everyone working in any kind of organization – and that is most people – can now discover how to use the same Eight Steps, and enjoy more success in these changing times.” From Our Iceberg Is Melting, Foreword.
--Spencer Johnson, M.D., Author of Who Moved My Cheese?
“The penguins in this book will not only steal your heart, they’ll make you a smarter person.”
--Mary Tyler Moore, Actress, producer, director and Academy Award nominee
Recently, John Humphrey, CEO Humphrey Enterprises and co-founder of The Forum Corporation, commented about Our Iceberg Is Melting for a Better Management Today web cast. He noted that Kotter’s emphasis on the see-feel-change approach, as laid out in his book, The Heart of Change, and incorporated into this fable, can help anyone grasp complex material. Humphrey said, “Putting the change process within an allegory makes it accessible to a broad range of people, and that is critical for performance because people need to be informed advocates for change.”
We asked Professor Kotter, how it is that his just published book could have so quickly helped so many. What started as asking a few people in the worlds of business and government for feedback on an early draft, he says, quickly turned his home office into a miniature publisher. “The first person I sent it to asked for 60 copies for an upcoming training program, so we rushed it through the Kinko’s across the street.”
Soon after those first copies were helping people change, demand blossomed. People were paying for draft editions. Why didn’t Kotter take the book straight to a publisher? “We weren’t satisfied with it,” he said. “We told everyone they could buy the draft only if they gave us feedback. Each time, we made improvements until finally we felt it was ready for publication.” In the process, Kotter and Rathgeber, sold 15,000 books in draft form and created 7 editions before it ever got to the publisher.
 The fable is about a penguin colony in Antarctica. A group of beautiful emperor penguins live as they have for many years. Then one curious bird discovers a potentially devastating problem threatening their home – and pretty much no one listens to him.
The characters in the story, Fred, Alice, Louis, Buddy, the Professor, and NoNo, are like people we recognize. Their tale is one of resistance to change and heroic action, seemingly intractable obstacles and clever tactics for dealing with those obstacles.
Our Iceberg Is Melting is based on Kotter’s pioneering work that shows how Eight Steps produce needed change in any sort of group. It’s a story that can be enjoyed by anyone while at the same time providing invaluable guidance for a world that keeps changing at ever faster rates.
Kotter and his co-author, HR executive Holger Rathgeber, began collaborating on the book in 2004. Rathgeber had emailed Kotter about using his Eight Steps in a training exercise for his company, medical technology giant Becton Dickinson. Rathgeber was inspired to incorporate the penguins from the cover of Kotter’s best selling management book, Leading Change, in the training. “It worked
great,” says Rathgeber. “I wanted to let Kotter know we had created something really special with his work that helped people incorporate his principles in a fun way.” Kotter was intrigued and the idea for the book was born.
The collaboration hasn’t stopped there. Kotter and Rathgeber gathered the insights gained by people and organizations using the book and created a landing place for people to learn more. Their web site connects people interested in guiding change in their organizations and provides a way for others to tell their own stories about change. The website also features Kotter talking about the book and provides links to a John Kotter webinar.
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