Professor Kotter is the author of 15 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 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), Corporate Culture and Performance (1992), A Force for Change (1990), The Leadership Factor (1998), Power and Influence (1985), The General Managers (1982), and five other books published in the 1970s. He has created three executive videos; one on "Leadership" (1981), 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. His educational articles in the Harvard Business Review have sold a million and a half copies. Professor Kotter's books have been printed in over seventy foreign language editions, and total sales exceed two million copies. |
A Sense of Urgency Newly released
John Kotter’s New Eye-Opening Book on the first step of leading change
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You know your organization needs to change. You may even know what the change needs to be: a new strategy a new IT system, an acquisition or reorganization. But somehow, change comes too slowly, or it feels like you’re pushing a boulder up a hill or the implementation of that great new idea has stalled- again. What’s missing? As change guru John Kotter shows in this eye-opening book, what’s missing and is needed in almost all organizations today, is a real sense of urgency.
Raising urgency is the first step in his enormously successful eight-step framework, articulated in Leading Change. But as Kotter illustrates, increasing urgency is the toughest of the eight steps. As we transition to a world where change is continuous, not just episodic, he shows how urgency must become a core, sustained capability.
A Sense of Urgency is a powerful tool for anyone wanting to win in a turbulent world that will only continue to move faster. |
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Leading Change
Management General's #1 management book of the year |
What will it take to bring your organization successfully into the twenty-first century? The world's foremost expert on business leadership distills twenty-five years of experience and wisdom based on lessons he has learned from scores of organizations and businesses to write this visionary guide. The result is a very personal book that is at once inspiring, clear-headed, and filled with important implications for the future. The pressures on organizations to change will only increase over the next decades. Yet the methods managers have used in the attempt to transform their companies into stronger competitors - total quality management, reengineering, right sizing, restructuring, cultural change, and turnarounds - routinely fall short, says Kotter, because they fail to alter behavior. Emphasizing again and again the critical need for leadership to make change happen, Leading Change provides the vicarious experience and positive role models for leaders to emulate.
The book identifies an eight-step process that every company must go through to achieve its goal, and shows where and how people - good people - often derail. The book is an inspirational yet practical resource for everyone who has a stake in orchestrating changes in their organization. In Leading Change we have unprecedented access t our generations’ master of leadership. |
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The Heart of Change
The Heart of Change towers over other change-management titles. |
| John Kotter realizes that change breeds pain and cynicism and often ends in failure. In his 1996 bestseller, Leading Change, he laid out a revolutionary eight-step process that organizations can use to facilitate successful change. Here, he and coauthor Dan S. Cohen reveal the results of their detailed research into more than 100 organizations in the midst of pervasive change. Both exciting and instructive, these true stories are certain to strike a responsive chords in manager/readers. Solid advice for the great leap forward. |
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Our Iceberg is Melting
A simple fable with profound lessons for working and living in an ever changing world. |
Our Iceberg Is Melting is a simple fable about doing well in an ever-changing world. Based on the award-winning work of Harvard's John Kotter, it is a story that has been used to help thousands of people and organizations.
The fable is about a penguin colony in Antarctica. A group of beautiful emperor penguins live as they have for many years. Then one curious bird discovers a potentially devastating problem threatening their home and pretty much no one listens to him.
The characters in the story, Fred, Alice, Louis, Buddy, the Professor, and NoNo, are like people we recognize — even ourselves. Their tale is one of resistance to change and heroic action, seemingly intractable obstacles and the most clever tactics for dealing with those obstacles. It's a story that is occurring in different forms all around us today — but the penguins handle the very real challenges a great deal better than most of us.
Our Iceberg Is Melting is based on pioneering work that shows how Eight Steps produce needed change in any sort of group. It's a story that can be enjoyed by anyone while at the same time providing invaluable guidance for a world that just keeps moving faster and faster. |
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