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John P. Kotter

Matsushita: Lessons from the 20th Century's Most Remarkable Entrepreneur

Editura: Free Press

Anul aparitiei: 1997

He was one of the most inspirational role models of all time. Thrown into poverty at age four, Konosuke Matsushita (Mat-SOSH-ta) struggled with the early deaths of family members, an apprenticeship which demanded sixteen-hour days at age nine, all the problems associated with starting a business with neither money nor connections, the death of his only son, the Great Depression, the horror of World War II in Japan, and more. Yet John P. Kotter shows in this fascinating and instructive book how, instead of being ground down by these hardships, Matsushita grew to be a fabulously successful entrepreneur and business leader, the founder of Japan's General Electric: the $65 billion a year Matsushita Electric Corporation. His accomplishments as a leader, author, educator, philanthropist, and management innovator are astonishing, and outshine even Soichiro Honda, J.C. Penney, Sam Walton, and Henry Ford. In this immensely readable book, Kotter relates how Matsushita created a large business, invented management practices that are increasingly being used today, helped lead his country's economic miracle after World War II wrote dozens of books in his latter years, founded a graduate school ...

John P. Kotter

Force for Change: How Leadership Differs from Management

Editura: Free Press

Anul aparitiei: 1990

John P. Kotter shows with compelling evidence what leadership really means today, why it is rarely associated with larger-than-life charismatics, precisely how it is different from management, and yet why both good leadership and management are essential for business success, especially for complex organizations operating in changing environments. The critics who despair of the coming of imaginative, charismatic leaders to replace the so-called manipulative caretakers of American corporations don't tell us much about what leadership actually is, or, for that matter, what management is either. Leadership, Kotter clearly demonstrates, is for the most part not a god-like figure transforming subordinates into superhumans, but is in fact a process that creates change -- a process which often involves hundreds or even thousands of "little acts of leadership" orchestrated by people who have the profound insight to realize this. Building on his landmark study of 15 successful general managers, Kotter presents detailed accounts of how senior and middle managers in major corporations, in close concert with colleagues and subordinates, were able to create a leadership process that put into ...

John P. Kotter, Kotter

Corporate Culture and Performance

Editura: Free Press

Anul aparitiei: 1992

Going far beyond previous empirical work, John Kotter and James Heskett provide the first comprehensive critical analysis of how the "culture" of a corporation powerfully influences its economic performance, for better or for worse. Through painstaking research at such firms as Hewlett-Packard, Xerox, ICI, Nissan, and First Chicago, as well as a quantitative study of the relationship between culture and performance in more than 200 companies, the authors describe how shared values and unwritten rules can profoundly enhance economic success or, conversely, lead to failure to adapt to changing markets and environments. With penetrating insight, Kotter and Heskett trace the roots of both healthy and unhealthy cultures, demonstrating how easily the latter emerge, especially in firms which have experienced much past success. Challenging the widely held belief that "strong" corporate cultures create excellent business performance, Kotter and Heskett show that while many shared values and institutionalized practices can promote good performances in some instances, those cultures can also be characterized by arrogance, inward focus, and bureaucracy--features that undermine an ...

John P. Kotter, Holger Rathgeber

Our Iceberg Is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions

Editura: St. Martin's Press

Anul aparitiei: 2006

"I came across Our ICEBERG IS MELTING in May, ordered and dsitributed 60 copies in June, evaluated its effect on our change effort, and then ordered 500 more copies in September. This is a gem." -- Heidi King, Program Manager, Dept. of Defense "As a result of the book and my sharing it with a few people in the organization, we have moved quickly on several fronts. We are galvanized to go ahead instead of further studying, more organizing and so on. It is making a difference for us." -- Tom Curley, President and CEO, Associated Press "This is the easiest to read yet most informative book I have ever seen. Setting one of management's biggest challenges, 'what problem, I don't see a problem, ' in the context of a melting iceberg and a determined penguin, was a stroke of sheer genius."-- Michael Dimelow, Director of Product Marketing, TTP Communications PLC

John P. Kotter

Leading Change

Editura: Harvard Business School Press

Anul aparitiei: 1996

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.

Harvard Business Review, Henry Mintzberg, John P. Kotter

Harvard Business Review on Leadership

Editura: Harvard Business School Press

Anul aparitiei: 1998

This collection in the "Harvard Business Review Paperback Series" gathers together some of the most influential thinking on leadership, challenging many long-held assumptions about the true sources of power and authority.

James Collins, John P. Kotter, Harvard Business Review

Harvard Business Review on Change

Editura: Harvard Business School Press

Anul aparitiei: 1998

Designed to bring today's managers and professionals the fundamental information they need to stay competitive in a fast-moving world, here are the landmark ideas that established the "Harvard Business Review" as required reading for ambitious business people in organizations around the world. This is a comprehensibe resource available for embracing corporate change and using it to a company's greatest advantage.

John P. Kotter, John J. Gabarro

Managing Your Boss

Editura: Harvard Business School Press

Anul aparitiei: 2008

Managing your boss: Isn't that merely manipulation? Corporate cozying up? Not according to John Gabarro and John Kotter. In this handy guidebook, the authors contend that you manage your boss for a very good reason: to do your best on the job-and thereby benefit not only yourself but also your supervisor and your entire company. Your boss depends on you for cooperation, reliability, and honesty. And you depend on him or her for links to the rest of the organization, for setting priorities, and for obtaining critical resources. By managing your boss--clarifying your own and your supervisor's strengths, weaknesses, goals, work styles, and needs--you cultivate a relationship based on mutual respect and understanding. The result? A healthy, productive bond that enables you both to excel. Gabarro and Kotter provide valuable guidelines for building this essential relationship--including strategies for determining how your boss prefers to process information and make decisions, tips for communicating mutual expectations, and tactics for negotiating priorities. Thought provoking and practical, Managing Your Boss enables you to lay the groundwork for one of the most crucial working ...

Lorne A. Whitehead, John P. Kotter

Buy-In: Saving Your Good Idea from Getting Shot Down

Editura: Harvard Business School Press

Anul aparitiei: 2010

You've got a good idea. You know it could make a crucial difference for you, your organization, your community. You present it to the group, but get confounding questions, inane comments, and verbal bullets in return. Before you know what's happened, your idea is dead, shot down. You're furious. Everyone has lost: Those who would have benefited from your proposal. You. Your company. Perhaps even the country. It doesn't have to be this way, maintain John Kotter and Lorne Whitehead. In Buy-In, they reveal how to win the support your idea needs to deliver valuable results. The key? Understand the generic attack strategies that naysayers and obfuscators deploy time and time again. Then engage these adversaries with tactics tailored to each strategy. By "inviting in the lions" to critique your idea--and being prepared for them--you'll capture busy people's attention, help them grasp your proposal's value, and secure their commitment to implementing the solution. The book presents a fresh and amusing fictional narrative showing attack strategies in action. It then provides several specific counterstrategies for each basic category the authors have defined--including: - Death-by-delay: ...

John P. Kotter

A Sense of Urgency

Editura: Harvard Business School Press

Anul aparitiei: 2008

Most organizational change initiatives fail spectacularly (at worst) or deliver lukewarm results (at best). In his international bestseller Leading Change, John Kotter revealed why change is so hard, and provided an actionable, eight-step process for implementing successful transformations. The book became the change bible for managers worldwide. Now, in A Sense of Urgency, Kotter shines the spotlight on the crucial first step in his framework: creating a sense of urgency by getting people to actually see and feel the need for change. Why focus on urgency? Without it, any change effort is doomed. Kotter reveals the insidious nature of complacency in all its forms and guises. In this exciting new book, Kotter explains: - How to go beyond "the business case" for change to overcome the fear and anger that can suppress urgency - Ways to ensure that your actions and behaviors -- not just your words -- communicate the need for change - How to keep fanning the flames of urgency even after your transformation effort has scored some early successes Written in Kotter's signature no-nonsense style, this concise and authoritative guide helps you set the stage for leading a successful ...

John P. Kotter, Dan S. Cohen

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

Editura: Harvard Business School Press

Anul aparitiei: 2002

Revolving around the revolutionary eight-step process outlined in the bestselling "Leading Change, " this guide introduces a "see-feel-change" dynamic, resulting from research that reveals change happens when people are made to "feel" differently. Offers tips and tools readers can apply in their own organizations.

Englebert Kotter

Gerbils: Everything about Purchase, Care, and Nutrition

Editura: Barron's Educational Series

Anul aparitiei: 2010

(back cover) Information and advice to help you take good care of your Gerbils Typical Gerbils: origins, life cycle, physical traits, behavior, and more Expert advice: feeding, health care, housing, training, and more Understanding your Gerbils: body language and its meanings Step-by-step directions for everyday care Informative and attractive sidebars Filled with handsome full-color photos (picture caption) These furry little creatures are sociable animals that make fascinating pets for adults and responsible children.

John Kotter

Leading Change: An Action Plan from the World's Foremost Expert on Business Leadership

Editura: MacMillan Audio

Anul aparitiei: 2007

John Kotter, the world's foremost expert on business leadership, distills twenty-five years of experience into Leading Change. A must-have for any organization, this visionary and very personal audiobook 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 to strengthen their companies--total quality management, reengineering, right sizing, restructuring, cultural change, and turnarounds--routinely fall short. In Leading Change, Kotter 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. Emphasizing again and again the critical need for leadership to make change happen, Leading Change provides unprecedented access to our generation's business master and a positive role model for leaders to emulate.

John P. Kotter, Dan S. Cohen

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

Editura: MacMillan Audio

Anul aparitiei: 2008

Compelling and instructive real-life stories about people and companies making change happen

John P. Kotter

Buy-In: Saving Your Good Idea from Getting Shot Down

Editura: Brilliance Corporation

Anul aparitiei: 2010

Smart, practical, and filled with useful advice, "Buy-In" equips listeners to anticipate and combat attacks--so their good ideas make it through to make a positive change.

John P. Kotter (Author)

General Managers

Editura: FREE PR

Anul aparitiei: 1986

In this unprecedented study of America's leading executives, John Kotter shatters the popular management notion of the effective "generalist" manager who can step into any business or division and run it. Based on his first-hand observations of fifteen top GMs from nine major companies, Kotter persuasively shows that the best manager is actually a specialist who has spent most of his or her career in one industry, learning its intricacies and establishing cooperative working relationships. Acquiring the painstaking knowledge and large, informal networks vital to being a successful manager takes years; outsiders, no matter how talented or well-trained seldom can do as well, this in-depth profile reveals. Much more than a fascinating collective portrait of the day-to-day activities of today's top executives, The General Managers provides stimulating new insights into the nature of modern management and the tactics of its most accomplished practitioners.

John P. Kotter (Author)

Organizational Dynamics: Diagnosis and Intervention (Prentice Hall Organizational Development Series)

Editura: ADDISON WESLEY PUB CO INC

Anul aparitiei: 1978

A member of the AWL OD Series This book offers managers and OD specialists a powerful way of diagnosing organizational problems and of deciding when, where, and how to use (or not use) the diverse and growing number of organizational improvement tools that are available today. Comprehensive and fully integrated, the book includes many different concepts, research findings, and competing philosophies and provides specific examples of how to use the information to improve organizational functioning.

Joshua Kotter (Author)

Just Justice

Editura: AL LAVALLIS ENTERPRISES LLC

Anul aparitiei: 2010

A review of the economic, financial and other causes to the uneven U.S. legal justice system, and a proposed solution to the problem.

John P. Kotter (Author)

The New Rules: Eight Business Breakthroughs to Career Success in the 21st Century

Editura: FREE PR

Anul aparitiei: 1997

Based on a landmark twenty-year study of 115 members of the Harvard Business School's Class of 1974, this vital and important book describes how the globalization of markets and competition is altering career paths, wage levels, the structure and functioning of corporations, and the very nature of work itself. THE NEW RULES INCLUDE: New Rule #1: Conventional career paths through large corporations no longer lead to success as they once did; New Rule #4: The greatest opportunities have shifted away from professional management in manufacturing to consulting and other service industries; New Rule #7: Success requires high personal standards and a strong desire to w

Kotter John, Rathgeber Holger

That's Not How We Do It Here! A Story About How Organizations Rise, Fall - and Can Rise Again

Editura: Penguin Books Ltd

Anul aparitiei: 2016

Written by the author of Our Iceberg is Melting That's Not How We Do It, this book tells the story of a clan of meerkats who live in the Kalahari. Well organised and efficient, the colony enjoys many years of successful growth, until it suddenly comes under threat from a new form of predator and is forced to rethink its organizational structure. Page dim. 152 x 219 x 16 Weight: 428 grams