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Our Iceberg Is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions 58 reviews
St. Martin's Press, 2006
Such a great change management teaching tool
Just about evey kind of situation you might encounter managing change in a big company exists in this easy to read book. Makes a great team building exercise having everyone read the book, then discuss all the different personalities one must work with in any change management situation.
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Harvard Business Review on Change (Harvard Business Review Paperback Series) 7 reviews
John P. Kotter, James Collins, ...
Harvard Business School Press, 1998
A positive goldmine
In the nicest possible sense, this book isn't exactly what the title claims. All to often discussions of change management tend to concentrate on the people side of things and ignore the less glamerous topics such as re-tooling, revised administrative and reporting procedures and so on. So, just to keep the record straight, this book is primarily concerned with the personnel aspects of change, ...
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Our Iceberg Is Melting1 review
John Kotter
St Martins Pr, 2007
Penguins are a force for change
John Kotter has given change agents like me a great manual to introduce the concepts of change to a board audience. As a professed change agent who has worked in the academic and public sector for over 40 years, I have found this little book and its story to be an extremely powerful teaching tool. The penguin and iceberg metaphors work and resonates with even the most sophisticated audiences. ...
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Organizational Dynamics: Diagnosis and Intervention (Addison-Wesley Series on Organization Development)1 review
John P. Kotter
Prentice Hall, 1978
The clearest explanation of systems thinking you can find!
After extensive research in 1975 and 1976 of twenty-six organizations, Kotter developed a model to supplement or replaces other diagnosis models of the time. His criteria for determining the elements was support for their importance from convincing research literature; that they were mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive; and they illustrate the dynamic life cycle of a real ...
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Managing Your Boss (Harvard Business Review Classics) (Harvard Business Review Classics) (Harvard Business ...1 review
John J. Gabarro, John P. Kotter
Harvard Business School Press, 2008
Developing a good working relationship with your superior
Both authors are Professors at the Harvard Business School. This article was originally published in January-February 1980, this On-Point version includes a retrospective commentary and was published in January-February 1993. Both authors have written several books on general management, leadership, and human resource management. The term 'managing your boss' means "the process of consciously ...
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Harvard Business Review on Leadership (Harvard Business Review Paperback Series) 8 reviews
Henry Mintzberg, John P. Kotter, ...
Harvard Business School Press, 1998
Enduring insights from multiple perspectives
Much of the contextual material in this volume is out-of-date, given the fact that the eight articles originally appeared in the Harvard Business Review years ago (1975-1998). However, I think the core concepts remain sound and provide a valuable frame-of-reference for understanding the advances in effective decision making that have occurred during the last five years. For example, if anything, ...
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The New Rules3 reviews
John P. Kotter
Free Press, 1997
A Real Gem
Dr. John Kotter of Harvard Business School is one of the few scholarly business writers who consistently blends leading edge, visionary concepts with the tough-mindedness that most successful executives admire. I bought this book while looking for something else entirely, but it was well worth it. I certainly discovered a real gem. Kotter gives us straight talk about the hard realities of ...
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Leading Change73 reviews
John P. Kotter
Harvard Business School Press, 1996
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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Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail (HBR Classic) (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)1 review
John P. Kotter
Harvard Business Review, 2007
Make Change Irresistibly Attractive
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 ...
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The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations29 reviews
John P. Kotter, Dan S. Cohen
Harvard Business School Press, 2002
Fantastic
A very well written book on how to lead change in your organization (or family) taking into account how others will react.
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What Effective General Managers Really Do (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)1 review
John P. Kotter
Harvard Business Review, 2000
How general managers really spend their time
John Kotter is Professor of Leadership at the Harvard Business School. He is the author of several books and articles into leadership and general management. This article was originally published in the November-December 1982 issue of the Harvard Business Review; this On-Point version contains a March-April 1999 retrospective commentary by the author. This article reports on the author's study, ...
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Corporate Culture and Performance5 reviews
John P. Kotter
Free Press, 1992
Academic, but practical, must-read book
Most popular and influential books on business management present the highly personal observations, interpretations, opinions, and conclusions of the author. The author's tenets - often in the form of a "newly discovered" business trend or critical success factor that business executives can ignore only at their own peril - seem objective and impersonal because they are supported by ...
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The Leadership Factor3 reviews
John P. Kotter
Free Press, 1988
Helped my career in a big way
As a young, aggressive manager, this book helped me make breakthrough improvements for my (former) employer, Eastman Kodak Company. As a result I got promotions, raises, etc. It is only 161 pages, made its points consisely and convincingly, and I profited immensely.
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John P. Kotter on What Leaders Really Do (Harvard Business Review Book)14 reviews
John P. Kotter
Harvard Business School Press, 1999
The Differencing Between Leading and Managing
In a long working career I have observed numerous instances of the high management manage companies with very few examples of them leading the company somewhere. I worked for Univac for instance, saw them merge with Burroughs, and watched as they turned two five billion dollar companies into one six billion dollar (with a loss in 2006 of almost $300 million). I watched Digital Equipment ...
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Force For Change : How Leadership Differs from Management5 reviews
John P. Kotter
Free Press, 1990
Another great work
John Kotter has done a superb job in distinguishing the differences between leadership and management. This is often attempted yet rarely accomplished with such vivid and compelling examples and documented research. If you want to know the differences, get this book.... Another great, easy-to-read, and popular leadership book my company uses successfully for management development and training ...
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What leaders really do3 reviews
John P Kotter
[Harvard Business School, 1980
The difference between leadership and management
John P. Kotter is Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Harvard Business School. This Harvard Business Review article was originally published in 1990, this On-Point version was issued in December 2001. "Leadership is different from management, but not for the reasons most people think." Kotter believes that leadership and management are complementary systems of action, and that both are ...
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AL FRENTE DEL CAMBIO
John P. Kotter
Urano, 2007
Las estrategias de cambio son un requisito indispensable para competir en el siglo XXI. Sin embargo, las fórmulas no bastan por sí solas si descuidamos el papel determinante de un liderazgo eficaz para coordinarlas. La prueba está en el elevado índice de fracasos que se asocia a las transformaciones dentro del ámbito de la empresa. John P. Kotter, con su bagaje de veinticinco años de experiencia, nos muestra los errores básicos que surgen en ...
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Matsushita Leadership 6 reviews
John P. Kotter
Free Press, 1997
A most difficult subject well tackled.
This is a rare attempt by an American to profile an Asian entrepreneur and world-renowned corporate leader. Because of the rather more subtle and complex social structures in Asia, which is particularly even more so in Japan, it is the rare non-Asian who is able to peer through the intricate webs and be able to grasp at the essence. Kudos to John Kotter
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The General Managers2 reviews
John P. Kotter
Free Press, 1986
An excellent field guide to general management!
THE GENERAL MANAGERS
By John Kotter (JK)
GENERAL MANAGERS IN ACTION: POLICIES & STRATEGIES
by Francis Aguilar (FA)
While re-sorting/re-organising my personal library recently, these two books happened to pop out right in front of me. I had owned & read them during the mid-eighties when I had just been promoted to General Manager. In fact, they were my constant companions - field ...
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Power and Influence2 reviews
John P. Kotter
MacMillan Publishing Company., 1985
Excellent reading on the realities of being a leader today
Leadership in today's corporate environment is by and large not the command and control style of yesterday's corporate monoliths. Today's enlighted managers and employees have to understand that leadership means guiding and influencing without being able to direct and order. Readers who do not understand the difference will want to read this book. Readers who want to understand how to be ...
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