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- Obsessive-compulsive Business
- What separates a leader from a manager is the ability to motivate people. That presents a special challenge in today's economy, says John Kotter, a Harvard Business School professor who has written books like "Leading Change." Kotter believes businesses today must change continuously, which requires a constant...
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- John Kotter: Where's the Urgency?
- John Kotter is considered one of the great management gurus on the subject of organizational change, penning such business best sellers as The Heart of Change and Leading Change. Welcome back Kotter, a Harvard Business School professor emeritus, with his book A Sense of Urgency. His message:...
- Blog posts 2008-08-31
- 10 Books for Leaders
- Here's a list on books on leadership put together by CIO Insight. "Authentic Leadership: Rediscovering the Secrets to Creating Lasting Value," by Bill George "Judgment: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls," by Noel M. Tichy and Warren G. Bennis "Leading...
- Blog posts 2008-10-29
- Obsessive-compulsive Business
- Obsessive-compulsive BusinessRE: Obsessive-compulsive BusinessInstilling an appropriate level of urgency is undoubtedly an important part of maintaining dynamic, commercial operations. As with most things, however, a degree of balance is needed. "False urgency" is one factor in the mix but, arguably, whatever the preferred speed, it is esential to follow a...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-22
- John Kotter: Where's the Urgency?
- John Kotter: Where's the Urgency?RE: John Kotter: Where's the Urgency?If you are in a company which is drifting along, captained by management who not only think they should have ALL the answers but don't so hire a consultants, JUMP SHIP! Certainly disembark at the next port.A place whose leadership...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-03
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- John Kotter on leadership, management and change: An interview with the author of leading change and what leaders really do - Interview
- Good leadership is like gravity. It's felt everywhere but little understood. For too many educators, leadership is present more as a felt absence or visible through a glass darkly. At its worst, those in charge are not up to the task. For 32 years, Harvard Business School Professor John...
- Research articles 2002-02-01
- Successfully Managing Change In Business Using John Kotter's Eight Step Model
- Successfully managing organizational change can be a difficult task, even for the most adept leaders. Not only can the changes themselves be disruptive, but the manner in which employees react to those changes can make the transitional process even thornier than necessary. Most people tend to have a natural resistance...
- White papers 2009-07-28
- Why Everything's Urgent Now
- The approach of September always seems to bring with it a quickening pace. But while people seem a little more focused, will they get more done? Business guru and author John Kotter believes there's still a lot of 'busyness' masquerading as true urgency -- not a...
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Best of HBR on Leadership: Balancing Stability and Change
- "HBR OnPoint Collections save you time by synthesizing and distilling the essence of three Harvard Business Review articles that, together, help you meet a specific management challenge. One-page overviews draw out the main points. Annotated bibliographies point you to related resources. Original HBR articles included. What's the difference between managers...
- Case studies 2004-05-01
- The Importance of Urgency | HBR IdeaCast
- When businesses try to effect sweeping change, they usually fail, and according to Harvard professor John Kotter, the reason is often a collective lack of urgency. In this podcast, Kotter explains why urgency matters; how it can be gauged, created, and harnessed; and how to avoid false urgency and complacency,...
- Blog posts 2008-09-26
- Helping Your Company Understand the Economic Crisis
- Harvard Business School professor John Kotter recalls a company visit recently where the subject of the economic crisis was front and center. That was the good part. The bad part, Kotter reports on a blog post, is that no one was drawing the right lessons. What he...
- Blog posts 2008-10-29
- Bad Urgency vs. Good Urgency: The Calendar Test
- Harvard Business School professor John Kotter's recent book A Sense of Urgency has been one of the more popular business tomes in recent memory. Managers seem to identify with his message that complacency can most effectively be overcome when organizations develop a mindset that the time for action is now....
- Blog posts 2009-08-20
- 'Kotter' character most memorable TV teacher
- Gabe Kaplan's character on "Welcome Back, Kotter," has been named the Most Memorable Teacher on Television by Inside TV magazine. The magazine recognizes Gabe Kotter, the high school teacher from the 1970s sitcom that also starred John Travolta, in its new issue. Also on the list:...
- Research articles 2005-09-02
- Has Your 'Good to Great' Gone from Mediocre to Downright Awful?
- For the majority of the 5.4 million managers working in 30,000 companies, this certainly appears to be the case. As a country we are facing a crisis in management at proportions we have never seen. The magnitude of its effect is hard to predict and magnified due to the...
- Blog posts 2008-11-25
- The Irrational Side of Change Management
- Most change programs fail, but the odds of success can be greatly improved by taking into account these counterintuitive insights about how employees interpret their environment and choose to act. In 1996, John Kotter published Leading Change. Considered by many to be the seminal work...
- Articles 2009-05-15
- Penguins illustrate how to conquer change
- Our Iceberg Is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions By John Kotter and Holger Rathgeber, art by Peter Mueller St. Martin's Press, 147 pages, $19.95 --- At first glance, Our Iceberg Is Melting seems easy to dismiss as an attempt to fuse a few hot topics -- global warming,...
- Research articles 2006-10-16
- The Mid-Year Review is Crucial in 2009
- For some managers, this year's mid-year employee performance reviews might seem a bit redundant. After all we all know what a tough period it's been. Everyone has worked hard in daunting circumstances. So it might seem understandable that supervisors might just want to move the ball down field with...
- Blog posts 2009-08-17
- Winning Your Next Promotion
- After Jack Welch retired as the legendary C.E.O. of General Electric, he wrote a book on Winning.Now, one would think he was sharing advice in that book for the benefit of other chief executives; but he states up front that he is more interested in how to make “winners” out...
- Articles 2007-02-15
- Welcome Back Kotter, The Drew Carey Show and Night Court Available on DVD February 28, 2006 from Warner Home Video; Value-priced TV Compilations will be Released in the Second Wave of Warner Home Video's 'TV Favorites' Series
- BURBANK, Calif. -- DVDs Feature Some of Today's Hottest Stars Including John Travolta, Drew Carey and Others
- Research articles 2005-12-15
- Second Annual IDC IT Forum & Expo to Showcase IT-Enabled Transformation at Leading Global Companies
- Executives from Avis, HSBC, Motorola, Sunoco and Others to Share Case Studies of Successful Business Transformation; John Kotter to Keynote
- Research articles 2006-11-29
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