John Kotter
There are 5 articles for this faculty member.
Sharpening Your Skills: Leading Change
| Published: | June 29, 2009 |
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| Feature: | Sharpening Your Skills |
Nothing like a global recession to test your change-management skills. We dig deep into the Working Knowledge vault to learn about building a business in a down economy, motivating the troops, and other current topics.
Published in 2008
Book Excerpt: A Sense of Urgency
| Published: | October 8, 2008 |
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| Feature: | Research & Ideas |
Urgency can be a positive force in companies, says leadership expert and HBS professor emeritus John P. Kotter. His new book, A Sense of Urgency (Harvard Business Press), makes that conviction clear. Our excerpt describes how leaders might skillfully transform a crisis into an organizational motivator for the better.
Published in 2002
Get Off the Dime!
| Published: | July 29, 2002 |
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| Feature: | Research & Ideas |
If you want large-scale change in your organization, you must change people's behaviors, say authors John Kotter and Dan Cohen. In an excerpt from their new book, The Heart of Change: Real Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations, the authors outline the importance of imparting urgency to the troops.
Published in 2001
What Makes a Good Leader?
| Published: | April 2, 2001 |
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| Feature: | Research & Ideas |
Leadership comes in many shapes and sizes, and often from entirely unexpected quarters. In this excerpt from the HBS Bulletin, five HBS professors weigh in with their views on leadership in action.
Published in 1999
What's Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century
| Published: | November 2, 1999 |
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| Feature: | Executive Education |
Efficient, restructured, and reengineered organizations may have been good enough to succeed in the 20th century, say John Kotter and Gary Hamel, but organizations that want to compete in the next century need to develop the leadership and innovation to change the marketplace.
