Leading Change
by: John P. Kotter
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In "Leading Change", John Kotter examines the efforts of more than 100 companies to remake themselves into better competitors. He identifies the most common mistakes leaders and managers make in attempting to create change and offers an eight-step process to overcome the obstacles and carry out the firm's agenda: establishing a greater sense of urgency, creating the guiding coalition, developing a vision and strategy, communicating the change vision, empowering others to act, creating short-term wins, consolidating gains and producing even more change, and institutionalizing new approaches in the future. This highly personal book reveals what John Kotter has seen, heard, experienced, and concluded in 25 years of working with companies to create lasting transformation.
Book Description:
In "Leading Change", John Kotter examines the efforts of more than 100 companies to remake themselves into better competitors. He identifies the most common mistakes leaders and managers make in attempting to create change and offers an eight-step process to overcome the obstacles and carry out the firm's agenda: establishing a greater sense of urgency, creating the guiding coalition, developing a vision and strategy, communicating the change vision, empowering others to act, creating short-term wins, consolidating gains and producing even more change, and institutionalizing new approaches in the future. This highly personal book reveals what John Kotter has seen, heard, experienced, and concluded in 25 years of working with companies to create lasting transformation.
Book Description:
What will it take to bring your organization successfully into the twenty-first century? The world's foremost expert on business leadership distills twenty-five years of experience and wisdom based on lessons he has learned from scores of organizations and businesses to write this visionary guide.The result is a very personal book that is at once inspiring, clear-headed, and filled with important implications for the future. The pressures on organizations to change will only increase over the next decades.Yet the methods managers have used in the attempt to transform their companies into stronger competitors -- total quality management, reengineering, right sizing, restructuring, cultural change, and turnarounds -- routinely fall short, says Kotter, because they fail to alter behavior. Emphasizing again and again the critical need for leadership to make change happen, Leading Change provides the vicarious experience and positive role models for leaders to emulate.The book identifies an eight-step process that every company must go through to acheive its goal, and shows where and how people -- good people -- often derail. Reading this highlypersonal book is like spending a day with John Kotter.It reveals what he has seen, heard, experienced, and concluded in many years of working with companies to create lasting transformation.The book is an inspirational yet practical resource for everyone who has a stake in orchestrating changes in their organization.In Leading Change we have unprecedented access to our generation's master of leadership.
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- John P. Kotter is a superb author and insightful business leader.
BUY THE BOOK!If your organizaiton is failing in its re-organization then read his book.He will describe in infinte deatil the correct steps that your organizational leaders must perform.He provides real life examples of success and failure.
Louis
Rating: - School Book
This book is what I needed and I enjoy the book. I received fast service.
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- New to the Organizational Change Management Field?First Steps Below!
This is one of the founding titles in the field of Organizational Change Management.For those who are just entering the field, I recommend reading this book to gain a sense of what the field used to be like in the mid 1990s. It will help you to baseline your current insights and understanding about Organizational Change Management today.The book below is another must read, must understand for those just entering the field.Happy reading!
Managing Transitions: Making the Most of ... Read More
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- Good leadership advice, but narrow and out-dated
John Kotter is a business professor at Harvard University who writes "Leading Change" as a guide to business leaders, helping them to transform their stagnant, ineffective, hierarchical companies into more effective, responsive, team-oriented ones.To help companies and leaders make this transition, he presents eight sequential steps that must be followed in order and done well.
These eight steps are:
1.Establish a sense of urgency (fight complacency)
2.Create ... Read More
Rating: - A MUST HAVE for your leadership library
Very well written book and easy to read and follow.Since change is a modern requirement for any business, it simply makes sense to focus in on what it takes to provide the necessary leadership to do so.
- John P. Kotter is a superb author and insightful business leader. BUY THE BOOK!If your organizaiton is failing in its re-organization then read his book.He will describe in infinte deatil the correct steps that your organizational leaders must perform.He provides real life examples of success and failure.
Louis
- School BookThis book is what I needed and I enjoy the book. I received fast service.
- New to the Organizational Change Management Field?First Steps Below!This is one of the founding titles in the field of Organizational Change Management.For those who are just entering the field, I recommend reading this book to gain a sense of what the field used to be like in the mid 1990s. It will help you to baseline your current insights and understanding about Organizational Change Management today.The book below is another must read, must understand for those just entering the field.Happy reading!
Managing Transitions: Making the Most of ... Read More
- Good leadership advice, but narrow and out-datedJohn Kotter is a business professor at Harvard University who writes "Leading Change" as a guide to business leaders, helping them to transform their stagnant, ineffective, hierarchical companies into more effective, responsive, team-oriented ones.To help companies and leaders make this transition, he presents eight sequential steps that must be followed in order and done well.
These eight steps are:
1.Establish a sense of urgency (fight complacency)
2.Create ... Read More
- A MUST HAVE for your leadership libraryVery well written book and easy to read and follow.Since change is a modern requirement for any business, it simply makes sense to focus in on what it takes to provide the necessary leadership to do so.
