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changed the “blueprints” of many corporations and how they now need to be led. Businesses have awakened to the hard fact that leadership can no longer be defined by the effective management of people and systems, but most importantly by the effective leading of change. Leadership, or the lack thereof, is proving to be one of the most crucial determinants of whether organizations will survive and flourish in the next century’s business frontier.
“We live in an era of organizational reengineering. To become or remain competitive, leaders often must realize improvement through radical change, or reengineering.” As defined by Jon R. Katzenbach, author of Real Change Leaders, radical changes are:

Those situations in which corporate performance requires most people throughout

the organization to learn new behaviors and skills. These new skills must add up

to a competitive advantage for the enterprise allowing it to produce better and

better ...

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examine organizational cultures and then reinvent them to promote and maintain success.

The most important thing to understand, however, is that leaders cannot change culture arbitrarily in the sense of eradicating dysfunctional conditions. By evolving culture they can build on its strengths while diminishing its weaknesses. “Culture is ‘changed’…through changes in various key concepts in the mental models of people who are the main carriers of the culture. Note, however, that such transformations do not occur through announcements or formal programs. They occur through a genuine change in the leader’s behavior…”

If culture cannot be ...

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