Posts Tagged ‘kotter’
Brief History of Change: Kotter
There is perhaps no change model more cited than John Kotter’s eight-stage change process. Kotter’s work has been repacked and resold by countless “change consultants.” Considering what is said about imitation, the Harvard Business School professor must be the most flattered guru in management. Kotter first presented this model in his 1995 book Leading Change. [...]
How to UnFreeze
Too often leaders are unsure of just how to unfreeze an organization and create change ready followers. Many leaders start by casting a grand vision of what the new organization looks like. However, followers, still frozen in their ways, do not receive this new vision because they have yet to see why change is necessary. [...]
Book Review: Our Iceberg is Melting
John Kotter is a Harvard Business School professor and prolific author on leadership and change. The bulk of Kotter’s work takes the form of scholarly articles and intellectual books. After years of research, Kotter published Leading Change. In it, he presents an 8 stage model for leading organizations through change. Leading Change presents great model, but to [...]
