Harvard Business School Professor John Kotter is widely regarded
as the world's foremost authority on leadership and change.
His is the premier voice on how the best organizations actually "do"
change.
In his newest work, A Sense of Urgency, Kotter shows what a true sense of urgency in an
organization really is, why it is becoming an exceptionally
important asset, and how it can be created and sustained within
organizations.
John Kotter’s international bestseller Leading
Change—which outlined an actionable, eight-step
process for implementing successful transformations —has become the
change bible for managers around the world. Our Iceberg
Is Melt-ing, the New York Times bestseller,
puts the eight-step process within an allegory, making it accessible
to the broad range of people needed to effect major organizational
transformations. In October 2001, Business Week magazine
rated Kotter the #1 "leadership guru" in America based on a survey
they conducted of 504 enterprises.
Professor Kotter is the author of seventeen books, a collection
that has given him more honors and awards than any other
writer on the topics of leadership and change. In
addition to A Sense of Urgency (2008) Our Iceberg Is Melting (2006), and Leading Change (1996), Professor Kotter is
the author of The Heart of Change (2002), John P. Kotter on What
leaders Really Do (1999), Matsushita
Leadership (1997), The New Rules (1995), Corporate Culture and
Performance (1992), A Force for Change (1990), The
Leadership Factor (1988), Power and
Influence (1985), The General Managers (1982), and five other books published in the 1970s.
Professor Kotter's books have been printed in over 120 foreign
language editions, and total sales exceed two million copies.
John Kotter’s articles in The Harvard Business Review over the past twenty years have sold more reprints than any of the
hundreds of distinguished authors who have written for that
publication during the same time period. His books are in the top 1%
of sales from Amazon.com.
He has created three executive videos; one on "Leadership" (1991), another on "Corporate
Culture" (1993), a third on "Succeeding in a
Changing World" (2007) and an educational CD-ROM, "Realizing Change" (1998) based on the Leading
Change book.
Professor Kotter's honors include an Exxon Award for Innovation
in Graduate Business School Curriculum Design, and a Johnson, Smith & Knisely Award for New Perspectives in Business Leadership. In
1996, Professor Kotter's Leading Change was named the #1
management book of the year by Management General. In 1998,
his Matsushita Leadership won first place in the Financial Times, Booz-Allen Global Business Book
Competition for biography/autobiography. In 2003, a video version of
a story from his book, The Heart of Change won a Telly
Award. In 2006, Kotter received the prestigious McFeely Award for "outstanding contributions to eadershipand management
development." In 2007, his video "Succeeding in a Changing World" was named best video training product of the year by Training
Media Review and also won a Telly Award.
Professor Kotter talks to groups with one and only one goal: to
motivate action that gets better results.
Dr. Kotter is a graduate of MIT and Harvard. He joined the
Harvard Business School faculty in 1972. In 1980, at the age of 33,
he was given tenure and a full professorship.
John Kotter lives in Cambridge Massachusetts and Ashland, New
Hampshire.
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