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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.406
EAN: 9780875847474
ISBN: 0875847471
Label: Harvard Business School Press
Manufacturer: Harvard Business School Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 187
Publication Date: January 15, 1996
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
Sales Rank: 1819
Studio: Harvard Business School Press
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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.
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Rating:  - 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.
Rating:  - 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 Change
Rating:  - 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 a guiding coalition (both influential leaders and effective managers)
3. Develop a widely inspiring vision and strategy for achieving it
4. Communicate the vision, communicate the vision, and communicate the vision even more.
5. Give the employees authority to creatively experiment concerning how to best make the vision a reality
6. Make sure you point out things to celebrate as you make progress toward your goals; it rewards appropriate behavior and, besides, people need to celebrate once in a while.
7. Understand Bowen Family Systems Theory--that when you change one thing, everything else changes with it. Systemic change is difficult work that produces a whole lot of anxiety and unintended consequences.
8. Make sure that, once the changes are made, they become engrained in the new culture of he company; make them "the way we do things around here."
Kotter does get credit for being comprehensive and ... 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.
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