My reading is picking up. The theme for this month is "Change". I'd be reading three of the very popular books by John Kotter on this subject.
Leading Change
In this celebrated book, which is used as a text book in many organizations for their internal training programs (including mine), Kotter offers a practical approach to an organized means of leading, not managing, change. He presents an eight-stage process of change with highly useful examples that show how to go about implementing it. Based on experience with numerous companies, his sound advice gets directly at reasons that organizations fail to change, reasons that concern primarily the leader.
Heart of Change: Real Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations
The Heart of Change is the follow-up to John Kotter's popular book Leading Change, in which he outlines a framework for implementing change that sidesteps many of the pitfalls common to organizations looking to turn themselves around. "Never underestimate the power of a good story," Kotter and Cohen testify in this highly readable sequel to Kotter's groundbreaking Leading Change. Practicing what they preach, they have culled, from hundreds of interviews conducted by Deloitte Consulting, the 34 most instructive and vivid accounts of companies undergoing large-scale change. With chapters organized by each of the eight stages of change Kotter identified in his 1996 bestseller, the authors deftly contrast success stories with fumbles, then utilize the compare-and-contrast format for lively "how-to/how-not-to" discussion.
Our Iceberg is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions
Aesop's fables? Remember how interesting and simple they were to understand the underlying message. Lately many authors are coming up with business fables and remember the enormously popular, Who Moved My Cheese. Kotter has tried the same with this fun little book. Kotter and Rathgeber offer a fable in which the central character, an Emperor Penguin named Fred, struggles without much success to convince his colony's Leadership Council that his research statistics indicate "the shrinking of the size of their home, the canals, the caves filled with water, the number of fissures, causing by [their iceberg's] melting." If they do not relocate to another iceberg soon....
Kotter's engaging story introduces the 8 principles of problem solving. Their delightfully told journey illuminates in an unforgettable way how to manage the necessary change that surrounds us all. Simple explanatory material following the fable enhances the lasting value of these lessons.
Leading ChangeIn this celebrated book, which is used as a text book in many organizations for their internal training programs (including mine), Kotter offers a practical approach to an organized means of leading, not managing, change. He presents an eight-stage process of change with highly useful examples that show how to go about implementing it. Based on experience with numerous companies, his sound advice gets directly at reasons that organizations fail to change, reasons that concern primarily the leader.
Heart of Change: Real Life Stories of How People Change Their OrganizationsThe Heart of Change is the follow-up to John Kotter's popular book Leading Change, in which he outlines a framework for implementing change that sidesteps many of the pitfalls common to organizations looking to turn themselves around. "Never underestimate the power of a good story," Kotter and Cohen testify in this highly readable sequel to Kotter's groundbreaking Leading Change. Practicing what they preach, they have culled, from hundreds of interviews conducted by Deloitte Consulting, the 34 most instructive and vivid accounts of companies undergoing large-scale change. With chapters organized by each of the eight stages of change Kotter identified in his 1996 bestseller, the authors deftly contrast success stories with fumbles, then utilize the compare-and-contrast format for lively "how-to/how-not-to" discussion.
Our Iceberg is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any ConditionsAesop's fables? Remember how interesting and simple they were to understand the underlying message. Lately many authors are coming up with business fables and remember the enormously popular, Who Moved My Cheese. Kotter has tried the same with this fun little book. Kotter and Rathgeber offer a fable in which the central character, an Emperor Penguin named Fred, struggles without much success to convince his colony's Leadership Council that his research statistics indicate "the shrinking of the size of their home, the canals, the caves filled with water, the number of fissures, causing by [their iceberg's] melting." If they do not relocate to another iceberg soon....
Kotter's engaging story introduces the 8 principles of problem solving. Their delightfully told journey illuminates in an unforgettable way how to manage the necessary change that surrounds us all. Simple explanatory material following the fable enhances the lasting value of these lessons.
