John Kotter (1947) is a professor at the Harvard Business School and author, who is regarded as an authority on leadership and change. His most popular work is Leading Change, with the ‘Kotter-8-steps’.
John Kotter
Domino Before You Bingo
There are five domino blocks that need to fall over before you can kick-off a large-scale organizational change program. What’s more: there is a specific order and distance that works best.
Elephants! Everywhere I look!
Forget the cheese and the mice, organizational change management just entered a new era: that of elephants and riders. The Heath brothers published a ground-breaking book on our core business.
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Change is more effective when people are shown a truth that influences their feelings, than if they are given analysis to shift their thinking.
Know-Feel-Do = Bottom Line of Communication
In the world-famous book of John Kotter, ‘Leading Change’, we can find a striking calculation regarding communication of strategic large-scale organizational change projects.
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In failed transformations, you often find plenty of plans, directives, and programs, but no vision. In one case, a company gave out four-inchthick notebooks describing its change effort. In mind-numbing detail, the books spelled out procedures, goals, methods and deadlines. But nowhere was there a clear and compelling statement of where all this was leading. Not surprisingly, most of the employees with whom I talked were either confused or alienated.
