books by John P. Kotter

books by John P. Kotter

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John P. Kotter

John P. Kotter on What Leaders Really Do (Harvard Business Review Book)

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 ...

Force For Change: How Leadership Differs from Management

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 ...

Leading Change

John P. Kotter

Harvard Business School Press, 1996

School Book
This book is what I needed and I enjoy the book. I received fast service.

The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations

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.

A Sense of Urgency

John P. Kotter

Harvard Business School Press, 2008

Changing the idea of change management
A Sense of Urgency is a book that is sorely needed in today's times as the difference between urgency and change will make the difference between survival and liquidation in today's economy. Executives need to recognize the difference between the two. Urgency creates ...

Managing Your Boss (Harvard Business Review Classics) (Harvard Business Review Classics)

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 ...

Corporate Culture and Performance

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 ...

What Leaders Really Do (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)

John P. Kotter

Harvard Business Review, 2000

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 ...

Harvard Business Review on Change (Harvard Business Review Paperback Series)

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 ...

Harvard Business Review on Leadership (Harvard Business Review Paperback Series)

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 ...

Behave with Urgency Every Day: Winning the Hearts and Minds of Change Agents
John P. Kotter

Harvard Business School Press, 2008

Almost everyone is too busy today. But when you're going from one meeting to the next, all on different topics, all run inefficiently, attitudes and feelings about urgency drain out through sheer exhaustion. A steadily growing wave of people behaving with real urgency each and every day can help organizations conquer cynicism and negativity.

Power and Influence

John P. Kotter

Free Press, 2008

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 ...

Increasing True Urgency: One Strategy and Four Tactics
John P. Kotter

Harvard Business School Press, 2008

Underlying the urgent behavior that makes organizations succeed in a turbulent world is not only a set of thoughts--there must also be a set of feelings, a compulsive desire to move, and win, now. This chapter outlines several tactics for increasing urgency and winning the hearts, along with the minds, of those involved in a change effort.

Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail (HBR Classic) (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)

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 ...

The Leadership Factor

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.