Leading Change: An Action Plan from The World's Foremost Expert on Business Leadership

Kotter, John

ISBN 10: 142720232X ISBN 13: 9781427202321

Publisher: Macmillan Audio, 2007

John Kotter, the world's foremost expert on business leadership, distills twenty-five years of experience into Leading Change. A must-have for any organization, this visionary and very personal audiobook is at once inspiring, clear-headed, and filled with important implications for the future.

The pressures on organizations to change will only increase over the next decades. Yet the methods managers have used to strengthen their companies―total quality management, reengineering, right sizing, restructuring, cultural change, and turnarounds―routinely fall short. In Leading Change, Kotter identifies an eight-step process that every company must go through to achieve its goal, and shows where and how people―good people―often derail. Emphasizing again and again the critical need for leadership to make change happen, Leading Change provides unprecedented access to our generation's business master and a positive role model for leaders to emulate.

About the Author:

John Kotter is the Konosuke Matsuhita Professor of Leadership, Emeritus, at Harvard Business School and is a frequent speaker at top management meetings across the world. He is the author of seven bestselling business books.

From AudioFile:

Oliver Wyman's ingenuous delivery style works perfectly for one of the best business-strategy audios of the year. Some might fault Wyman's pacing as too slow, but his connection with the material is seamless. Along with having one of the most appealing voices in this genre, he's adept at segmenting complex sentences into digestible phrases. Kotter's ideas about how organizations change are compelling and well organized. His thoughtful recommendations and strategies are at once sophisticated and practical. While his lesson is aimed at organizational leaders and middle managers, his far-reaching insights will enlighten people at all organizational levels. Kotter is a profound business thinkeran extraordinary writer and heir-apparent to the legendary business writer Peter Drucker. T.W. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine

• Publisher: Macmillan Audio
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 142720232X
• ISBN 13: 9781427202321
• Binding: Audio CD
• Number of pages: 6