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Leading Change
A review of

Leading Change

An Action Plan from the World’s Foremost Expert on Business Leadership

John P. Kotter • Harvard Business Review Press • 1996
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Make Change Stick

by David Meyer

Bestselling management guru and Harvard Business School professor John P. Kotter details how to initiate change and make it endure.

The cover of professor John P. Kotter’s book shows penguins shuffling on a precipice as one brave bird leaps into the water. In too many organizations, Kotter says, executives shy away from the precipice while someone lower in the pecking order jumps.

Whenever human communities are forced to adjust to shifting conditions, pain is ever present. But a significant amount of the waste and anguish we’ve witnessed in the past decade is avoidable.John P Kotter

To this point, Kotter explains that managers tend to think in linear, risk-limiting ways. Transformational change, he insists, can occur only when a coalition of leaders creates a sense of urgency.

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    M. S. 4 months ago
    that is grat
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    J. C. 4 months ago
    Interesting read, definitely a good read
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    A. N. 4 months ago
    good read