Posts Tagged ‘Leadership’

John Kotter

John Kotter, is widely regarded as the world’s foremost authority on leadership and change.  His is the premier voice on how the best organizations actually “do” change.

In his newest work, A Sense of Urgency, Kotter shows what a true sense of urgency in an organization really is, why it is becoming an exceptionally important asset, and how it can be created and sustained within organizations.

Professor Kotter is the author of seventeen books, a collection that has given him more honors and awards than any other writer on the topics of leadership and change.  In fact, his books are in the top 1% of sales from Amazon.com.

John Kotter’s international bestseller Leading Change, which outlined an actionable, eight-step process for implementing successful transformations, has become the change bible for managers around the world. Our Iceberg Is Melting, the New York Times bestseller, puts the eight-step process within an allegory, making it accessible to the broad range of people needed to effect major organizational transformations.  Professor Kotter often talks to groups and has only one goal: to motivate action that gets better results.

John Kotter’s articles in The Harvard Business Review over the past twenty years have sold more reprints than any of the hundreds of distinguished authors who have written for that publication during the same time period.

Professor Kotter’s honors include an Exxon Award for Innovation in Graduate Business School Curriculum Design, and a Johnson, Smith & Knisely Award for New Perspectives in Business Leadership. In 2003, a video version of a story from his book, The Heart of Change won a Telly Award. In 2006, Kotter received the prestigious McFeely Award for “outstanding contributions to leadership and management development.” In 2007, his video “Succeeding in a Changing World” was named best video training product of the year by Training Media Review and also won a Telly Award.

John Kotter lives in Cambridge Massachusetts and Ashland, New Hampshire.

Marshall Goldsmith

Dr. Marshall Goldsmith is a world authority in helping successful leaders get even better – by achieving positive, lasting change in behavior: for themselves, their people and their teams.

Marshall’s newest book, What Got You Here Won’t Get You There, is a New York Times best seller, Wall Street Journal #1 business book and winner of the Harold Longman Award as the Best Business Book of 2007.

Recently, the London Times named Goldsmith one of the top 50 most influential living management thinkers. The American Management Association named him as one of 50 great thinkers and leaders who have influenced the field of management over the past 80 years and Business Week listed him as one of the most influential practitioners in the history of leadership development.

Dr. Goldsmith’s Ph.D. is from UCLA. He teaches executive education at Dartmouth’s Tuck School and frequently speaks at leading business schools. His work has been recognized by almost every professional organization in his field.

Over two hundred of his articles, interviews, columns and videos are available for viewing and sharing online (for no charge) at www.MarshallGoldsmithLibrary.com.  Visitors to this site have come from 188 countries and have viewed over 2.1 million resources.

Goldsmith is co-founder of Marshall Goldsmith Partners, a network of top-level executive coaches and is widely recognized as one of the world’s foremost authorities in helping leaders achieve positive, measurable change in behavior: for themselves, their people and their teams. In 2000, Forbes listed Marshall as one of top five executive coaches and Human Resources rated Marshall as one of the world’s leading HR consultants. He has also been ranked by the Wall Street Journal as one of the “Top 10″ executive educators. He has written and co-edited over 15 books on leadership development including “The Many Facets of Leadership” and “Coaching for Leadership.”

Jim Murphy

Jim “Murph” Murphy is the Founder and CEO of Afterburner, Inc. and has a unique and powerful mix of leadership skills in both the military and business worlds. After graduating from the University of Kentucky, Murph joined the U.S. Air Force where he learned to fly the F-15. He has logged over 1,200 hours as an instructor pilot in the F-15 and has accumulated over 3,200 hours of flight time in other high-performance jet aircraft.

After years in the military, Murph returned to his love of business. Prior to his service in the U.S. Air Force, Murph had a successful career in imaging equipment sales, where he helped increase his company’s sales by 500%. Years later, Murph became Director of Sales for a small paint company. Realizing that the concepts of the Flawless Execution^SM model could be applied to business, he engaged the proven model — “Plan. Brief. Execute. Debrief.” — and increased his company’s sales from $5 million to $52 million. Realizing that many companies could benefit from these same concepts, Murph started Afterburner in early 1996.

Through his leadership, Afterburner has landed on Inc. Magazine’s “Inc. 500 List” twice. Murph has been regularly featured in such publications as The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Inc. Magazine, Newsweek, Meetings & Conventions Magazine and has appeared on CNN, Fox News, and Bloomberg news to name a few. He has also been named as one of Atlanta’s top 50 entrepreneurs by Catalyst Magazine.

To date, the Afterburner team of elite military professionals has led over 1 million executives, sales professionals, and business people from every industry through Afterburner’s Flawless Execution^SM Model, and its unique, high-energy programs. Afterburner notable clients include the Who’s Who of the Global 1000 list of companies. Murph’s groundbreaking book “Business Is Combat”, is now in its third printing, and his latest book Flawless Execution^SM was released May 1st, 2005 by Harper Collins publishing.

Murph has spoken at the world’s notable business schools to include Harvard, Wharton, Cornell, Emory, and Duke.

Robert Cialdini, Ph.D.

Robert Cialdini, Ph.D.

Influence, Negotiation, Communication, Management, Leadership, Sales

Harvard Business Review lists Dr. Cialdini’s research in breakthrough ideas for today’s business agenda.

Influence has been listed on the New York Times Business Best Seller List.

Fortune Magazine lists Influence in their 75 Smartest Business Books

Extensive scholarly training in the psychology of influence, together with over 30 years of research into the subject, has earned Dr. Cialdini an international reputation as an expert in the fields of persuasion, compliance, and negotiation.

His books including, Influence: Science & Practice, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, and Yes! 50 Scientifically Proven Ways To Be Persuasive are the results of over 30 years of study into the reasons why people comply with requests in business settings. Worldwide, Influence has sold nearly two million copies. Influence has been published in twenty-four languages and is the top sales & marketing of CEO Read’s 100 Top Business Books of All Time. Influence and Yes! have been ranked on the New York Times and Business Week best sellers list.

“This book is the de facto standard to learn the psychology of persuasion. If you don’t read it, I hope you enjoy pounding your head against the wall and throwing away marketing dollars.” – Guy Kawasaki, CEO, Garage

In the field of influence and persuasion, Dr. Cialdini is the most cited living social psychologist in the world today.

Dr. Cialdini received his Ph.D from the University of North Carolina and post doctoral training from Columbia University. He has held Visiting Scholar Appointments at Ohio State University, the University of California, the Annenberg School of Communications, and the Graduate School of Business of Stanford University. Currently, Dr Cialdini holds dual appointments at Arizona State University. He is a W.P. Carey Distinguished Professor of Marketing and Regents’ Professor of Psychology, where he has also been named Distinguished Graduate Research Professor.

Media coverage of Dr. Cialdini and his research include:

• Dateline NBC
• CNBC
• CNN
• ABC
• Washington Post
• The New York Times
• On Wall Street
• Forbes Magazine
• Chicago Tribune
• USA Today
• London Times
• Scientific American
• Los Angeles Times
• Psychology Today
• Selling Power
• Sales and Marketing Magazine
• Leader to Leader Magazine
• The Atlantic Journal
• The Denver Post
• The New York Times
• Harvard Business Review
• Fortune Magazine

Dr. Cialdini is President of INFLUENCE AT WORK, an international consulting, strategic planning and training organization based on the Six Principles of Influence.

Dr. Cialdini’s clients include such organizations as Google, Advanta, IBM, Washington Mutual Group of Funds, Coca Cola, KPMG, AstraZeneca, Ericsson, Kodak, Merrill Lynch, Nationwide Insurance, Pfizer, Northern Trust, Prudential, The Mayo Clinic,Glaxo Wellcome, Harvard University – Kennedy School, The Weather Channel, the United States Department of Justice, and NATO.