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Pure Laser Med Spa Owner Jeff Nourse Announces Grand Opening of Company's New Location in Woodbridge
Canada´s largest and most experienced privately owned medical spa company Pure Laser Med Spa has recently opened its latest center in Woodbridge, Ontario.
Toronto, Ontario (PRWEB) May 11, 2012
Known for its state-of-the-art facilities and fully licensed doctors and aesthetic professionals Pure Laser´s recent move ensures that customers from and around Woodbridge will have a more convenient access to world class treatments and services. "Our Toronto center has been receiving a lot of clients from Woodbridge that´s why we decided to open one in their local area. Now, they can have the latest in laser and anti-aging procedures without planning a drive to Toronto," Pure Laser Med Spa owner Jeff Nourse explains the company´s latest move.
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Jeff Nourse is one of the pioneers in the medical spa industry in Canada. His focus on quality and dedication to pushing boundaries has made Pure Laser Med Spa Canada´s best and most trusted name with over 600,000 successful procedures done to date. Aside from the new Woodbridge center located at 5-60 Winges Road, Pure Laser Med Spa has 5 other branches across Toronto and Greater Toronto Area, with more waiting in the wings.
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If any words universally strike fear in the hearts of people, they are, "You have cancer." Upon receiving a cancer diagnosis, people's first question is often, "Am I going to die?" The answer to that depends on the type of cancer a person has, how early it was detected, how aggressive the cancer is, and whether it has spread to other parts of the body. A cancer diagnosis can bring up a wide range of difficult emotions and significantly impact many areas of a person's life. The support of a mental health clinician to help cope with the psychological impact of cancer may be an invaluable aspect of the treatment process for people with cancer and their loved ones.
Our bodies are made up of millions of tiny cells, which are dying and replacing themselves every day. Normally, when there is an error in this process, our bodies have mechanisms to "snip out" the error, so replication continues in a normal manner. When this process goes awry and is not corrected, abnormal (cancer) cells can grow. Cancer cells lack normal cells' ability to control their growth and die, so they continue to reproduce, forming tumors. The exception to this is leukemia, which is a cancer of the cells that form blood cells. In this case, the cancer cells circulate throughout the body in the bloodstream, rather than forming a tumor.
Some people inherit the likelihood that they will develop cancer from their families. Other people may develop cancer because of an exposure to a known carcinogen (cancer causing agent), such as cigarette smoke. Still others develop cancer for no apparent reason. The good news is that the risk of developing a number of types of cancer can be reduced by living a healthy lifestyle, which includes not smoking or using smokeless tobacco products, getting regular exercise, eating a healthy diet, maintaining a healthy weight, and avoiding heavy alcohol use.
There are over 100 types of cancer, and different types have a variety of effects on the body, which is why they require different treatments. Broadly, there are two categories of cancers:
Before the mid 1970's, when the specialty of psycho-oncology (oncology = cancer) was initially conceptualized, very little, if any, concern was given to a patient's psychological state or needs when they had cancer. This happened for several reasons:
Over time, while there still remains somewhat of a stigma, awareness of people's emotional and mental health needs has increased, and now these principles are being more fully incorporated into physician training programs. The formation of the specialty of psycho-oncology has been a huge step forward in treating the whole patient and not just the cancer. Also, the realization that cancer impacts the entire family, not just the patient has helped to create a more supportive environment in oncology treatment settings. Unless the client refuses it, this therapist will always include the family in some way when working with a cancer patient.
Ideally, every person who develops cancer would undergo a mental health screening after being diagnosed. This would help to identify potential areas of concern, and also familiarize the patient and their family with the mental health providers who specialize in working with cancer patients. It would also help to de-stigmatize seeking help for mental health issues if every cancer clinic had counseling services available on-site.
Grieving Limited Time Left with Family - Jane, 52, came in to therapy to discuss her concerns regarding her husband's (Russell, 65) lung cancer. They had been told that after some initial surgery and chemotherapy, Russell's cancer was incurable. Jane felt completely overwhelmed and needed a safe place to explore her feelings, which ranged from confusion to anger to sadness to concern for her two teenagers to deep love for Russell. After two individual sessions with the therapist, she and Russell began to come in together to share their grief and profound sadness that Russell had limited time left with his family. As happens in many families dealing with cancer, both Jane and Russell had avoided talking about Russell's prognosis openly with their children, due to their fear that it would only make the children feel badly. The therapist decided that psychoeducation was very important in this realm; the reality is that everyone is already feeling bad, and it would be very beneficial for them to have each other's support. The entire family came in for the next session. Many tears were shed as each member shared their fears and concerns for Russell and for each other. Jane said she felt that she must function as both herself and Russell after his death, but feared that she would not do a very good job of it. In a loving way, both Russell and the children let Jane know that Russell was irreplaceable, and that she did not need to try to be anyone but herself after his death. Jane's relief was palpable. Following the therapist's suggestion, the family set up a time at least weekly to check in with each other.
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Urgent appeal to the Iranian Government: Halt the scheduled execution of Ahwazi Arab men
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GENEVA (21 May 2014) – A group of United Nations human rights experts* today urged the Iranian authorities to halt the scheduled execution for tomorrow, Thursday 22 May, of two Ahwazi Arab farmers and cultural rights activists, after their death sentences were reportedly upheld by the Iranian Supreme Court.
The UN experts expressed alarm over the case of Ali Chebeishat and Sayed Khaled Mousavi, who were arrested in November 2012 and sentenced to death on charges of Moharebeh (enmity against God) by a Revolutionary Court in September 2013.
Both men have reportedly been subjected to severe mistreatment and beatings, possibly amounting to torture. They have now been held incommunicado for over two months, and neither their lawyer nor family members have been able to obtain official information regarding their current whereabouts or the status of their cases.
The human rights experts expressed further serious concern over reports that the accused were not afforded due process or fair trial standards in accordance with both domestic and international law.
"First and foremost, the Iranian authorities must stop the executions and the accused should be permitted a new, fair trial," they said. "The authorities must also cease any and all retribution against family members for allegedly speaking with international organizations, including the United Nations."
"The Iranian authorities must promptly inform Messrs. Chebeishat and Mousavi's families of their whereabouts, and allow their families and their lawyers' access to details regarding the status of their cases, in accordance with both international and Iranian law," the experts stressed.
"The accused were convicted either primarily or solely on the basis of a televised 'confession' which appeared on Iranian State TV in June 2013," the rights experts said, noting with concern that they were apparently not allowed legal representation of their own choosing and were later denied regular access to their court- appointed lawyer.
"The timing of the video release, as well as its content, beg serious questions about its legitimacy as evidence in the conviction and sentencing of these men to the most serious and irreversible fate possible," they underscored.
(*) The experts: the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, Ahmed Shaheed; the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Christof Heyns; Special Rapporteurs on minority issues, Rita Izsák; and the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, Gabriela Knaul; and the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention.
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Career Centric Quest Arcs - an idea on how to do it.
Reading a few of the Dev threads I fleshed out an idea on how to do a career centric quest set which ties everything in and lets all players get the same reward. I'm using Federation titles and terms but I'm pretty sure this would work for Klingon side as well. Observe:
The player, one he reaches a certain rank is hailed by Starfleet's Admiralty with a message that Intelligence shows the Borg are gearing up for yet another push into UFP territory. Since they have been continually adapting to everything we have it is time to come up with something new. Your assignment is determined by your career path:
First mission:
Science Captains must go explore planets in some of the outer lying territories and study lost civilizations for untapped concepts and technologies.
Engineering Captains must report to one of the major stations to lead a research team to design a device based off data gathered by the Science Captain.
Tactical Captains must lab test these devices first in a holodeck run and help work out the bugs.
These missions can be run separately and the player can assume that NPC's other than his character have or will fulfill the other missions.
Second mission:
The thing is a dud and no one has any solid reason why. It should work but it won't. These missions could be given as a player hits their next rank or immediately after the previous missions.
Science Captains must study the device at a space station and run through several logic puzzles to try and devise theories behind why the device fails.
Engineering Captains must take the blueprints to Memory Alpha and research with the NPC's there information on furthering the design. This could include having to deal with the Ferengi there who will not give up their knowledge without payment.
Tactical Captains must take the device to a barren planet for further field testing against holographic opponents...but the Klingons or another alliance are laying in wait to kill them and take the device to include in their own researches for their own anti-Borg arsenal. In facing off against them more details come from how to try to get the device to work taken straight from data in the tricorders on the bodies of your opponents as well as finding their own version of the device in the wreckage of their starships.
Third Mission:
It works...we hope...maybe...time for more testing.
Captains will take the device to a system devoid of life for deployment and remote testing in their ship's labs....when the Borg show up. Somehow the Borg have arrived in system and beamed aboard the vessel before detection. It's a fight through the decks of the ship to clear the ship of the invaders...and plenty of chances to check and tweak the device until finally, it starts to work. Not 100% of the time but it does seem to affect the Borg in random ways. Some shut down, some find their minds freed of control and act out randomly, some transport away, some explode causing AOE damage.
Fourth Mission:
After handing in the battered but field tested device and all the data gained from the surprise attack the teams at Sol Station and Memory Alpha have it figured out and have replicated a set of the devices for field use. They need to be deployed quickly because the Borg already have experience with the thing's effects and will be working on ways to adapt to it.
This mission is a team mission and needs at least one player Captain of each career path. An isolated Bog Cube has been discovered and set upon by a large NPC Fleet. The players will join the assault and, once the cube is disabled, beam over and attempt to install the main device in the Central Control Node of the Cube. Each Captain will have his own tasks to perform during the mission. Once done they must activate it, beam off and flee to a safe distance as the Cube comes back to life. The device begins to interface with the Cube and...well...I don't want to spoil it for everyone so let's just see if the Devs and Cryptic Writers like the idea.
I'd be happy to work with them over fleshing this out and making it work.
There would be mission rewards, of course, I'm thinking the final reward would be a Liberated Borg Phaser Rifle with a secondary attack tailored to the character's career path: science would be a stun expose, engineering would be an expose debuff and tactical would be a nanite exploit where the nanites eat away hitpoints.
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President Mohamed Morsy ordered Egypt's army from Monday to take on police powers — including the right to arrest civilians — in the run-up to a vote on a constitution that has triggered bloodshed.
The decree ordered the military to fully cooperate with police "to preserve security and protect vital state institutions for a temporary period, up to the announcement of the results from the referendum", according to a copy of the decree obtained by AFP.
Army officers "all have powers of legal arrest", it said.The military, which ruled Egypt between former president Hosni Mubarak's ouster in February 2011 to Mr.Morsy's election in June 2012, has sought to remain neutral in the political crisis but has also warned that it "will not allow" the situation to deteriorate, and urged both sides to dialogue.
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M&C Saatchi has created its first piece of work for Virgin Holidays since winning the account in September.
The agency has created a set of six 10-second idents that will launch today (19 November) during I'TV's 'London Weekday Weather'. In each ident, a different weather presenter gives a tongue-in-cheek forecast from around the world.
The campaign, which runs for three months, aims to encourage its audience to leave drizzly England for a Virgin Holiday, at one of six exotic locations, including the US, Dubai, Thailand, Mexico, Japan and Barbados. The idents will be supported by social media activity across YouTube, Facebook and Twitter.
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Old Town
The rustic buildings and storefronts of Old Town preserve the city's Western heritage. Museums, antique dealers, art galleries, dining and more line the wooden boardwalk reminiscent of the 1880s. To add to the Wild West atmosphere, on the fourth Saturday of every month, the Old Town Temecula Gunfighters have shootouts and staged fights in the heart of Old Town.
Many events are held in Old Town, including the Rod Run classic car shows every March and October, a Bluegrass Festival every March, Western Days every May, and a weekly Farmers Market every Saturday morning. A Street Painting Festival will take place June 24-26 this year.
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Covering more than 35,000 acres of scenic rolling hills and vineyards just east of the main part of town, Temecula Valley Wine Country offers wine tastings, behind the scenes tours and private barrel tastings at more than 30 wineries. Limousine tours, horseback riding and wine country maps are available to guide you through the area. In recent years, Temecula wines have gained recognition in competitions throughout the world.
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More than 60 different types of dal (or dhal) are made across India. The basic dish contains lentils or other legumes flavored with aromatics and spices. Here, yellow lentils (toor dal) and mango are cooked in a more traditionally Southern India style—more souplike. Both ripe and underripe mango will work: less-ripe mango imparts a tart flavor and holds its shape, while riper mango breaks down more during cooking and gives the dish a sweeter taste. Serve over basmati rice or with roasted chicken.
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Mangos are in season right now, and they are amazing! I couldn't decide between green mango and mature mango, so I used one of each, and it was fantastic! Like many others, I couldn't find yellow lentils, so I used green, but otherwise followed the recipe exactly. I loved the sweetness of the mango paired with the spices. I served it over Madagascar pink rice, which has nice flavor and texture.
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The launch trailer (embedded below) is less of a traditional, cinematic launch trailer and more like … two minutes of the game's confusing, seemingly boring combat. Protagonists Toki and Tawa—two souls who inhabit the same body—just seem to stand there, attacking from afar or up close (depending on which soul is dominant—both possess their own fighting-style preference).
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3.0 out of 5 stars CHANGE - EASIER SAID THAN DONE!
Whether in business or on a personal level, nothing puts people on edge more than change, whether it be for the better or worse. Change means taking an individual(s) out of their secure environment and imposing a new set of rules, disciplines or policies that are unknown to them. Generally, people fear most what they do not understand, that which is new and set apart...
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5.0 out of 5 stars Criticism is misdirected,
J. Lebo (Toronto, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Leading Change (Hardcover)
The comments that rate this book poorly are missing the point. Fear, threats, etc. are not part of Kotter's method. He provides guidelines; it's up to you to adapt them to your specific purpose. The harsh critics lack the creativity to apply Kotter's general tactics to their specific situations.
This book is taught at the best business schools because it works. I use it all the time because it works. Ignore the out-of-context babble about burning platforms and just read the book. It is effective, common-sense stuff, applicable to EVERY change initiative.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Lead change... in the right direction. A Must Read for Change Agents.,
Charmaine E. Hammond "Charmaine Hammond, Prof... (Alberta Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Leading Change (Hardcover)
Small businesses, entrepreneurs and authors can learn a lot about why some changes just don't work for them. Author John P. Kotter is a change management expert, and his book Leading Change offers some great insights that can help any business move through change with more ease. First we need to understand what gets in the way of an effective change process:
Kotter says that businesses fail with their change processes because:
- They allow too much complacency
- They fail to create a powerful and effective change guiding coalition
- They underestimate the power of vision
- They under communicate the vision- communication is actions and words
- Permitting obstacles to block the new vision
- Failing to create short term wins
For businesses, authors and entrepreneurs, it is important we don't become complacent in our work, always endeavor to be innovative, and passionate. It is the passion and innovation that helps you solve business challenges, and that people remember you for. Ensure that you have a vision, know how powerful a vision is and communicate it, and communicate it some more. Don't let obstacles or shiny objects get in the way or your plans and vision. Always find the short term "win wins", they fuel the next step in the journey. Also, bring people along with you! These indivduals become champions for you, your business and your vision.
Kotter also talks about the 8 step process to effectively lead change:
1. Establish sense of urgency
2. Create the guiding coalition
3. Develop vision and a strategy
4. Communicate the change vision
5. Empower employees for broad based action
6. Generate short win wins
7. Consolidate gains and produce more change
8. Anchor new approached in the culture
The book details each of the 8 steps in a way that creates tangible actions for any leader or change management consultant. The process provides a great road map so that others can get on board the change process. The book is an easy read, and makes a great deal of sense!
Charmaine Hammond
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5.0 out of 5 stars Eight-stage process for transformation programs,
Gerard Kroese (The Netherlands) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Leading Change (Hardcover)
John P. Kotter is Professor of Leadership at the Harvard Business School. He has written several books and articles on general management and leadership issues. This particular book builds on his 1995 Harvard Business Review-article 'Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail'.
The book is split up into three parts. In the first part - The Change Problem and Its Solution - Kotter discusses the eight main reasons why in many situations the improvements have been disappointing, with wasted resources and burned-out, scared, or frustrated employees. Each of these eight errors are discussed in detail, using simple, clear examples. "Making any of the eight errors in common to transformation efforts can have serious consequences." But Kotter argues that these errors are not inevitable. And this is why Kotter has written this book. "The key lies in understanding why organizations resist needed change, what exactly is the multistage process that can overcome destructive inertia, and, most of all, how the leadership that is required to drive that process in a socially healthy way means more than good management." In Chapter 2, Kotter discusses the reasons why organizations (can) need changes and improvements. Although some people suggest otherwise, Kotter believes that organizations can implement change successfully. "The methods used in successful transformations are all based on one fundamental insight: that major change will not happen easily for a long list of reasons." Kotter introduces an eight-stage process for creating major change.
This eight-stage process is discussed in Part Two of this book:
(1) The first stage of the process involves the establishment of a sense of urgency, which is required to overcome complacency. The nine sources of complacency are discussed, whereby Kotter emphasizes that "a good rule of thumb in a major change effort is: Never underestimate the magnitude of the forces that reinforce complacency and that help maintain the status quo." He further discusses methods for raising urgency levels, the role of crises, and the role of middle and lower-level managers.
(2) The second stage involves the creation of a guiding coalition. "A strong guiding coalition is always needed - one with the right composition, level of trust, and shared objective." According to the author the four key characteristics to effective guiding coalition are position power, expertise, credibility, and leadership. And he emphasizes that management and leadership must work in tandem, teamwork style.
(3) The third stage requires the development of a vision and strategy. Good vision clarifies the general direction for change, motivates people to take action in the right direction, and it helps coordinate people's actions. The characteristics of an effective vision are imaginable, desirable, feasible, focused, flexible, and communicable. But vision alone is not enough. "This is where strategy plays an important role. Strategy provides both logic and a first level detail to show how a vision can be accomplished."
(4) The power of a vision is most powerful when all people within an organization have a common understanding of its goals and direction. Although the general myth is that failures to communicate vision are attributed to either limited intellectual capabilities among lower-level employees or a general human resistance to change. But that is not really the problem. The vision needs to be communicated in a clear, simple message (focused and jargon-free). Kotter discusses each of the seven key elements in the communication of vision.
(5) Empowering employees for broad-based action - "Discouraged and disempowered employees never make enterprises winners in a globalizing economic environment. But with the right structure, training, systems, and supervisors to build on a well-communicated vision, increasing numbers of firms are finding that they can tap an enormous source of power to improve organizational performance. They can mobilize hundreds or thousands of people to help provide leadership to produce needed changes."
(6) Major change takes time and it is therefore advisable to pay serious attention to short-term wins. Short-term wins should be visible, unambiguous, and related to the change effort. Short-term wins play various roles in a change effort, most notably building the necessary momentum.
(7) Many forces can stall a change process short of the finish line. And we should be aware that irrational and political resistance to change never fully dissipates. We should not let the celebration of short-term wins allow complacency back into the organization. We should also be aware that progress can slip away for two reasons: corporate culture (see more in the next stage) and increased interdependence as a result from interconnections.
(8) "Culture refers to norms of behavior and shared values among a group of people." In large organizations, there are some social forces (corporate culture) that affect everyone. Corporate cultures have a powerful influence on human behavior, since it is almost impossible to change and invisible. Kotter believes that "culture is powerful for three reasons: (i) Because individuals are selected and indoctrinated so well. (ii) Because the culture exerts itself through the actions of hundreds or thousands of people. (iii) Because all of this happens without much conscious intent and thus is difficult to challenge or even discuss." He provides with one other important warning: "most cultural change happens in stage 8, not stage 1."
Part III - Implications for the Twenty-First Century - consists of two chapters. In the first chapter, Kotter discusses the organization of the future. In particular, the impact of the future on the eight stages in the change process. There is an interesting table, which compares the differences in structure, systems, and culture between 20th-century and 21st-century organizations. "The key to creating and sustaining the kind of successful 21st-century organization is leadership - not only at the top of the hierarchy, with a capital L, but also in a more modest sense (l) throughout the enterprise." These two notions are discussed in detail in the final chapter of the book.
Yes, this is an excellent book on controlling change. The book provides an extremely useful framework for a change process and should be kept as a checklist. Although the process looks rigid, the stages are flexible and take place concurrently. I recommend this book to all people involved in a major change process within larger organizations. The author uses simple business US-English.
3.0 out of 5 stars CHANGE - EASIER SAID THAN DONE!,
Sandra D. Peters "Seagull Books" (Prince Edward Island, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Leading Change (Hardcover)
Whether in business or on a personal level, nothing puts people on edge more than change, whether it be for the better or worse. Change means taking an individual(s) out of their secure environment and imposing a new set of rules, disciplines or policies that are unknown to them. Generally, people fear most what they do not understand, that which is new and set apart from the normal routine of things. Implementing change in the workplace, particularly if you are a large corporation, can have a dramatic impact on employees, productivity and motivation.
In this book, the author points out the most common mistakes in effecting change and offers eight steps to overcoming the barriers to change. While the book is well-worth reading, the reader should be made aware that the author does not tell you what specific changes need to be made. Much of the information here is not new and can be found in a variety of other similar books, reports and reviews and for that reason the star rating of the book dropped significantly.
5.0 out of 5 stars THE Standard for Organizational Change,
John Williamson (NYC & Bucks County, PA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Leading Change (Hardcover)
This book was recommended to me as being the standard for organizational change, and that recommendation was close to the mark. For any project manager who is involved in the mechanism of change, this is one book that should be right at the top their 'short list.'
This may seem like a strong statement, but reading this book can be life changing. Its concepts apply across many other business ideas, and it is particularly useful for implementing project management into an organization.
Lots of resources are wasted on unsuccessful efforts because often the leaders of some organizations don't know how to implement successful changes. The thought process gets tied up in the existing bureaucracy and remains stalled, going nowhere. In Leading Change, Professor Kotter has performed a commendable job of outlining all the elements that must be addressed. He identifies the most frequent mistakes in effecting change, and suggests eight steps to overcoming obstacles.
The author offers some good business essentials, but also adds a solid structure for implementation that can be applied across organizational cultures. Following his recommendations should make it easier for an organization to know what they should be working on and how to progress to the next steps.
There are good books that may be more recent than this, but you would do yourself and your organization a disservice if you passed this book by just based on that. As stated earlier, this book lives up to its reputation of being the standard for organizational change.
5.0 out of 5 stars "The Eight Steps to Transformation",
Turgay BUGDACIGIL (Istanbul, Turkey) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Leading Change (Hardcover)
"Over the past decade," John P. Kotter writes, "I have watched more than a hundred companies try to remake themselves into significantly better competitors. They have included large organizations (Ford) and small ones (Landmark Communications), companies based in United States (General Motors) and elsewhere (British Airways), corporations that were on their knees (Eastern Airlines), and companies that were earning good money (Bristol-Myers Squibb). Their efforts have gone under many banners: total quality management, reengineering, right-sizing, restructuring, cultural change, and turnaround. But in almost every case the basic goal has been the same: to make fundamental changes in how business is conducted in order to help cope with a new, more challenging market environment. A few of these corporate change efforts have been very successful. A few have been utter failures. Most fall somewhere in between, with a distinct tilt toward the lower end of the scale. The lessons that can be drawn are interesting and will probably be relevant to even more organizations in the increasingly competitive business environment of the coming decade."
In this context, John P. Kotter lists the most general lessons to be learned from both (I) the more successful cases and (II) the critical mistakes as follows:
I. Lessons from the more successful cases:
1. Establishing a sense of urgency
* Examining market and competitive realities
* Identifying and discursing crises, potential crises, or major opportunities
2. Forming a powerful guiding coalition
* Assembling a group with enough power to lead the change effort
* Encouraging the group to work together as a team
3. Creating a vision
* Creating a vision to help direct the change effort
* Developing strategies for achieving that vision
4. Communicating vision
* Using every vehicle possible to communicate the new vision and strategies
* Teaching new behaviors by the example of the guiding coalition
5. Empowering others to act on the vision
* Getting rid of obstancles to change
* Changing systems or structures that seriously undermine the vision
* Encouraging risk taking and nontraditional ideas, activities, and actions
6. Planning for and creating short-term wins
* Planning for visible performance improvements
* Creating those improvements
* Recognizing and rewarding employees involved in the improvements
7. Consolidating improvements and producing still more change
* Using increased credibility to change systems, structures, and policies that don't fit the vision
* Hiring, promoting, and developing employees who can implement the vision
* Reinvigorating the process with new projects, themes, and change agents
8.Institutionalizing new approaches
* Articulating the connections between the new behaviors and corporate success
* Developing the means to ensure leadership development and succession
II. Lessons from the critical mistakes:
1. Not establishing enough sense of urgency - A transformation program requires the aggressive cooperation of many individuals. Without motivation, people won't help and the effort goes nowhere.
2. Not creating a powerful guiding coalition - Companies that fail in this phase usually underestimate the difficulties of producing change and thus the importance of a powerful quiding coalition.
3. Lacking a vision - Without a sensible vision, a transformation effort can easily dissolve into a list of confusing and incompatible projects that can take the organization in the wrong direction or nowhere at all.
4. Undercommunicating the vision - Transformation is impossible unless hundreds or thousands of people are willing to help, often to the point of making short-term sacrifices.
5. Not removing obstacles to the new vision - Sometimes the obstacle is the organizational structure: narrow job categories can seriously undermine efforts to increase productivity or make it very difficult even to think about customers. Sometimes compensation or performance-appraisal systems make people choose between the new vision and their own self-interest. Perhaps worst of all are bosses who refuse to change and who make demands that are inconsistent with the overall effort.
6. Not systematically planning and creating short-term wins - Creating short-term wins is different from hoping for short-term wins. The latter is passive, the former active. In a successful transformation, managers actively look for ways to obtain clear performance improvements, establish goals in the yearly planning system, achieve the objectives, and reward the people involved with recognition, promotions, and even money.
7. Declaring victory too soon - Instead of declaring victory, leaders of successful efforts use the credibility afforded by short-term wins to tackle even bigger problems.
8. Not anchoring changes in the corporation's culture - Change sticks when it becomes "the way we do things around here," when it seeps into the bloodstream of the corporate body. Until new behaviors are rooted in social norms and shared values, they are subject to degradation as soon as the pressure for change is removed.
Finally, John P. Kotter writes, "There are still more mistakes that people make, but these eight are the big ones. In reality, even successful change efforts are messy and full of surprises. But just as a relatively simple vision is needed to guide people through a major change, so a vision of the change process can reduce the error rate. And fewer errors can spell the difference between success and failure."
Highly recommended.
5.0 out of 5 stars Transforming Organizations is Tough Without Leading Change!,
George Bullard "Strategic Leadership Coach" (Columbia, SC, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Leading Change (Hardcover)
Transforming organizations is tough! It is more difficult than many people realize. Generally, leaders attempt change efforts that are too mild and then give them too little time to succeed. As a result, many transformations fail.
Even though this book was published four years ago, it is still on the cutting edge of modern, linear change in organizations. In my own consulting work I see this book--more than any other--used as a reference point when dicussing change strategies.
Kotter's ideas of establishing a sense of urgency and creating a guiding coalition brought great insight to the part of the change process known as readiness. Another great contribution is the idea that culture--being the most difficult thing to change--is generally the last change tackled, and the capping change that must take place for true lasting change to occur.
John Kotter begins this book by sharing why transformation efforts fail. He then takes the reader on a journey through an eight stage process of creating major change. He concludes this three-part book with a look at the implications for the twenty-first cnetury related to organizations and leadership.
Any facilitator or recipient of change efforts who has not read this book, has missed one of the mandatory books about the change process in North American culture.
Buy it today!
5.0 out of 5 stars Make Change Irresistibly Attractive,
Donald Mitchell "Jesus Loves You!" (Thanks for Providing My Reviews over 127,000 Helpful Votes Globally) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Leading Change (Hardcover)
The leaders of some organizations have no idea how to make successful changes, and are likely to waste a lot of resources on unsuccessful efforts. Professor Kotter has done a solid job of outlining the elements that must be addressed, so now your organization will at last know what they should be working on.
On the other hand, if you have not seen this done successfully before, you may need more detailed examples than this book provides or outside facilitators to help you until you have enough experience to go solo. I suspect this book will not be detailed enough by itself to get you where you want to go.
Here's a hint: The Harvard Business Review article by Professor Kotter covers the same material in a much shorter form. You can save time and money by checking this out first before buying the book.
I personally find that measurements are very helpful to create self-stimulation to change, and this book does not pay enough attention in that direction. If you agree that measurements are a useful way to stimulate change, be sure to read The Balanced Scorecard, as well, which will help you understand how to use appropriate measurements to make more successful changes.
If you want to know what changes to make, this book will also not do it for you. I suggest you read Peter Drucker's Management Challenges for the 21st Century and Peter Senge's Fifth Discipline.
Good luck!
5.0 out of 5 stars Organizational Diagnosis - Powerful insights,
This review is from: Leading Change (Hardcover)
Working in an organization where change stalled, to a point where innovation is absolutely discouraged, there were some sleepless nights when I couldn't stop thinking "Why? What went wrong?" After reading the first chapter of Leading Change, the answers come to surface with surgical precision. In fact, I can now pinpoint almost all reasons why things went wrong, and how one can turn from a leading prince into a caged victim. If I had had this insight earlier in my job, perhaps early warning could have been given. In fact, Mr. Kotter's books reads (for my organization) almost like a case study on "make the 8 basic mistakes, relax and watch chaos emerge". In my particular case, I can even give the names and position for each key player that failed. At the level of this book, I can only place Sun Tzu 's classic, "The Art of War", and I would reccommend this book to every person having management resposibilities, since it gives the necessary insight to diagnose malfunction symptoms clearly and precisely. All that is needed is good sense and fair judgement.
3.0 out of 5 stars Lists ways to effectively manage change in your company.,
This review is from: Leading Change (Hardcover)
Success rarely comes without change. And change requires leadership. We all want success but not all of us are taught to succeed. If we manage day-to-day business operations of our company, it will run smoothly without making any noise and growth. To get your company to run and win the race of competition, you have to jolt it, change it, and know how to manage that change to successfuly leverage that change to your advantage.
Kotter argues that, to effectively manage changes in your organiztion, you must:
1. Be scared enough to muster the courage to manage the change and not let your complacency mar your mustered courage. Rabbit.
2. Know how to make a network and use it. Weave, woo, and win. Spider.
3. Know how to envision your company's strategical future. Chess Player.
4. Let the people in your organization know how important the change is, so they become willing to make little sacrifices. Communicator.
5. Give the common person in your company the power to speak and suggest changes. A Just Ruler.
6. Make people go along by giving them short doses of victorious pleasure. Kindergarten Teacher.
7. Not give them too much pleasure or they will become arrogant and lazy. Highschool teacher.
8. Make it a chain reaction. Produce gains from change and use those gains to feed more change. Change-O-Maniac.
9. Make change your culture. Mutiple Personality Disorder & Co.
All of this will become easy to accomplish after you'll read this book. Not bad.
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