So developing a sense of urgency around the need for change may help you spark the initial motivation to get things moving. John Kotter suggests that at least 75% of people wanting it creates a critical mass. ISBN 978-0-87584-747-4.John Kotter's highly regarded books 'Leading Change' (1995) and the follow-up 'The Heart Of Change' (2002) describe a popular and helpful model for understanding and managing change.Įach stage acknowledges a key principle identified by Kotter relating to people's response and approach to change, and in which people see, feel and then change.įor change to happen, it helps if a sufficient number of people within an organisation want it. ^ Tanner, R., Leading Change (Step 6) – Generate Short-Term Wins, Business Consulting Solutions LLC., updated 11 July 2021, accessed 8 August 2021.^ Kotter, J., The 8-Step Process for Leading Change, accessed 10 January 2021.^ a b 'Thinkers 50 | Scanning, ranking and sharing the best management ideas in the world'.

Kotter – Faculty – Harvard Business School'. CHANGE: How Organizations Achieve Hard-to-Imagine Results Despite Uncertain and Volatile Times. That's Not How We Do It Here!: A Story about How Organizations Rise and Fall-and Can Rise Again. Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World. United States: Harvard Business School Publishing. Matsushita Leadership: Lessons from the 20th Century's Most Remarkable Entrepreneur. Organization - Texts, Cases, and Readings on the Management of Organizational Design and Change. 12 of these have been business bestsellers and two of which are overall New York Times bestsellers. Kotter is the author of 21 books, as listed below.

Kotter lives in Boston, Massachusetts with his wife, Nancy Dearman. Since early in his career, Kotter has received numerous awards for his thought leadership in his field from Harvard Business Review, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Thinkers50, Global Gurus and others. The business consultancy firm applies Kotter's research on leadership, strategy execution, transformation, and any form of large-scale change. In 2008, he co-founded Kotter International with two others, where he currently serves as Chairman. He is a thought leader in business, leadership, and change. John Paul Kotter is the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership, Emeritus, at the Harvard Business School, an author, and the founder of Kotter International, a management consulting firm based in Seattle and Boston. Author, educator, management consultant, scholar

The Heart of Change by John P. Kotter