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Sales rank 773
Customers rating (based on 83 reviews)
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One of the world's foremost experts on business leadership distills 25 years of experience and wisdom in this visionary guide to what it will take to lead the organization of the 21st century. "Every business leader can profit from Kotters thinking on change."--Larry Bossidy, Chairman and CEO, AlliedSignal, Inc. Available August 1996.
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| Publisher | Harvard Business School Press | | Release date | 01/1996 | | Availability | Usually ships in 24 hours | | Edition | Hardcover |
| | List price | $26.95 | | Our price | $17.79 (you save 33.99%) | | Used price | from $7.89 |
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 Long day's journey into boredom
If you enjoy reading laundry lists, this is for you. I bought the audio version to listen to while communting, finally gave up in self-defense -- I was falling asleep at the wheel. Problems with this are: lack of real-life examples; pedantic, didactic style.
For better and more readable/listenable advice on implementing change, check out: "Good to Great" by Jim Collins; "Execution" by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan; "Who Says Elephants Can't Dance" by Lou Gerstner; "Winning" by Jack Welch.
 A Modern Leadership and Change Process
One of the hardest things to find is a book that links leadership to change in a practical, step-by-step, balanced way. Most books on the subject focus primarily on one or the other.
Based on his experience with major corporations as a Harvard Business School professor, Kotter's eight-stage process is clear, logical, and consistent with modern change management theory.
I use this book and a related article in a seminar on change management to provide the students with one way to initiate and manage change that is particularly effective in large organizations. I say that because this book assumes that entrenched managers will not budge unless there is a sense of urgency or the leader creates one.
There are other, more charismatic and visionary, ways to initiate change that work exceptionally well in cases where the leader and the culture are more collaborative, but Kotter's approach is one of the best for initiating change when something has to give in order for it to happen.
If you find yourself in a situation where vested interests simply refuse to cooperate, Leading Change is the book for you.
Robert E. Levasseur, Ph.D., author of "Leadership and Change in the 21st Century"
Very good book
I loved reading this book, it is very easy to read and interesting. I cannot remeber the delivery or price, but I can tell you that the product of the book is great! I don't plan on getting rid of it because it is a good book and even some coworkers have asked to borrow it.
Fantastic outline for change initiatives
I'm a bit of a junkie for HBR books, but I have read a few stinkers before - this is not one of them.
Kotter does an excellent job of breaking down change management efforts into 8 stages. He then goes through each stage, highlights why it is important and the pitfalls that can occur. He then backs everything up with solid examples.
After reading the book and understand what is involved in large change management or culture change initiatives - one can understand why most of them fail.
An easy to read review on a great topic relevant to many businesses today.
Insight into the world of change
One of the best books on strategic change resistance and gaining sponsorship you will ever read. I have used and continue to use the eight step framework for all my change programmes.
Well written, easy to read and practical.
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