Leading Change
John Kotter, the world's foremost expert on business leadership, distills twenty-five years of experience into Leading Change. A must-have for any organization, this visionary and very personal audiobook 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 to strengthen their companies—total quality management, reengineering, right...
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The seminal book on change finally available on CD Cause/Effect Journal - Doug Gale The book Leading Change, by John P. Kotter, is a "must read" for any CIO or senior manager contemplating institutional change.
Preface1Transforming Organizations: Why Firms Fail32Successful Change and the Force That Drives It173Establishing a Sense of Urgency354Creating the Guiding Coalition515Developing a Vision and Strategy676Communicating the Change Vision857Empowering Employees for Broad-Based Action1018Generating Short-Term Wins1179Consolidating Gains and Producing More Change13110Anchoring New Approaches in the Culture14511The Organization of the Future16112Leadership and Lifelong Learning175About the Author187
\ Doug GaleThe book Leading Change, by John P. Kotter, is a "must read" for any CIO or senior manager contemplating institutional change.\ —Cause/Effect Journal\ \ \ \ \ Publishers Weekly\ - Publisher's Weekly\ Harvard Business School professor Kotter (A Force for Change) breaks from the mold of M.B.A. jargon-filled texts to produce a truly accessible, clear and visionary guide to the business world's buzzword for the late '90schange. In this excellent business manual, Kotter emphasizes a comprehensive eight-step framework that can be followed by executives at all levels. Kotter advises those who would implement change to foster a sense of urgency within the organization. "A higher rate of urgency does not imply everpresent panic, anxiety, or fear. It means a state in which complacency is virtually absent." Twenty-first century business change must overcome overmanaged and underled cultures. "Because management deals mostly with the status quo and leadership deals mostly with change, in the next century we are going to have to try to become much more skilled at creating leaders." Kotter also identifies pitfalls to be avoided, like "big egos and snakes" or personalities that can undermine a successful change effort. Kotter convincingly argues for the promotion and recognition of teams rather than individuals. He aptly concludes with an emphasis on lifelong learning. "In an ever changing world, you never learn it all, even if you keep growing into your '90s." Leading Change is a useful tool for everyone from business students preparing to enter the work force to middle and senior executives faced with the widespread transformation in the corporate world. 60,000 first printing; $100,000 ad/promo; dual main selection of the Newbridge Book Club Executive Program; 20-city radio satellite tour. (Sept.)\ \ \ Library JournalAfter trying an endless array of quick fixes and other panaceas, executives struggling to stay in business in a rapidly changing world are finding it necessary to consider more fundamental reasons for their lack of success. Kotter (The New Rules: A Force for Change, Free Pr., 1995) now offers a practical approach to an organized means of leading, not managing, change. He presents an eight-stage process of change with highly useful examples that show how to go about implementing it. Based on experience with numerous companies, his sound advice gets directly at reasons that organizations fail to change, reasons that concern primarily the leader. This is a solid, substantive work that goes beyond the clichs and the consultant-of-the-month's express down yet another dead-end street. With its clear demonstration of the hard work necessary to lead change, this important work stands with Michael Hammer's latest, Beyond Reengineering (see review above). Highly recommended.Dale F. Farris, Groves, Tex.\ \ \ \ \ From the Publisher\ "Oliver Wyman's ingenuous delivery style works perfectly for one of the best business-strategy audios of the year.... his connection with the material is seamless. Along with having one of the most appealing voices in this genre, he's adept at segmenting complex sentences into digestible phrases." - AudioFile, Earphones Award Winner “An outstanding book that addresses the needs of organizations and inviduals in today’s rapidly changing business environment.”—Ernest I. Glickman, CEO, Harbridge House, Division of Coopers & Lybrand L.L.P.\ “Very interesting and relevant, full of practical advice of immediate use.”—Richard Deverell, Head of Strategy and Planning, BBC news\ \ \
