Seth Kahan

Leadership: Every Professional has Stories to Tell

Seth is a motivational speaker and keynote speaker. He uses storytelling and communication exercises to help build strong business communities and ignite positive organizational change. Human beings have been telling stories since the dawn of language. Evidence points to narrative as the way the human brain is wired. We learn by making sense of the […]

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Leadership: Interview of Gail Williams – Leadership Alchemy

Interviewed by Seth Kahan, April 2006 1995-96 Gail Williams of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center supported the President’s Commission of Advisors on Science and Technology, and the National Science and Technology Council. This private- and public-sector collaboration worked on establishing policy and leveraging resources in the pursuit of a national science and technology agenda. Today

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Leadership: Interview of John Kotter – The Power of Storytelling

Interviewed by Seth Kahan, March 2006 John Kotter, is an expert on leadership at the Harvard Business School. He has been the premier voice on how the best organizations actually “do” change. His books have been reprinted in eighty foreign language editions, and total sales are approaching two million copies. His articles in the Harvard

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Leadership: Leadership Transition Planning

Seth is a motivational speaker and keynote speaker. He uses storytelling and communication exercises to help build strong business communities and ignite positive organizational change. A Leadership Transition occurs when key members of the senior management team change, resulting in turnover of the know-how and experience required to ensure continuity and strategic success of the

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Leadership: Leading from the Middle

By Seth Kahan and Raj Chawla Top-down command-and-control leadership is not enough to get results in today’s workplace. There are three reasons: Increasing levels of economic, political, and social complexity Equal access to information at all levels in organizations More sophisticated and empowered customers and stakeholders Things move fast. Stakes are high. Agility, speed, and

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Leadership: Leading in Complex Organizations

Many of the organizations I work with are complex. This means they have one or more of the three attributes which make leadership particularly difficult: Geographic distribution – employees, customers, and partners are spread around the country, region, or the globe. Each physical location creates separation, challenging alignment. Multi-disciplinary – staff members have differing professional

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Leadership: Visionary Leadership

Seth is a motivational speaker and keynote speaker. He uses storytelling and communication exercises to help build strong business communities and ignite positive organizational change. Article first published in Executive Update, April 2002 Visionary leadership is transformative. It involves greatness, penetrating the ordinary, and reaching through time to bring out the best the world has

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Innovation: Community Business Models – Spotlight on INFORMS

Seth is a motivational speaker and keynote speaker. He uses storytelling and communication exercises to help build strong business communities and ignite positive organizational change. Article first published in Executive Update. It is widely recognized that community plays a central, strategic role for associations. Mark G. Doherty, CAE, Executive Director of the Institute for Operations

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Innovation: Community, the Conference Catalyst

Seth is a motivational speaker and keynote speaker. He uses storytelling and communication exercises to help build strong business communities and ignite positive organizational change. Community is more than getting folks together. Literally translated the word means, “with unity.” When people settle in to work together with a common purpose and focus, you have a

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