The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations
A Leadership, Nonfiction, Business book. Never underestimate the power of clever people to help others see the possibilities, to help them generate a feeling...
Why is organizational change so hard? Because in order to make any transformation successful, you must change more than just the structure and operations of an organization—you need to change people’s behavior. And that is never easy.The Heart of Change is your guide to helping people think and feel differently in order to meet your shared goals. According to bestselling author and renowned leadership expert John Kotter and coauthor Dan Cohen, this focus on connecting with people’s emotions is what will spark the behavior change and actions that lead to success. The Heart of Change is the engaging and essential complement to John Kotter’s international bestseller Leading Change.Building off of Kotter’s revolutionary eight-step process, this book vividly illustrates how large-scale business change can work. With real-life stories of people in organizations, the authors show how teams and individuals get motivated and activated to overcome obstacles to change—and produce spectacular results. Kotter and Cohen argue that change initiatives often fail because leaders rely too exclusively on data and analysis to get buy-in from their teams instead of creatively showing or doing something that appeals to their emotions and inspires them to spring into action. They...
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- Pages: 208 pages
- ISBN: 9781578512546 / 1578512549
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Never underestimate the power of the mind to disempower. John P. Kotter, The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations // Never underestimate the power of clever people to help others see the possibilities, to help them generate a feeling of faith, and to change behavior. John P. Kotter, The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations //
I kinda have mixed feelings on this one.Con: it was a little on the repetitive/boring side.Pro: repetition is the mother of all learning.Con: it's written targeted at middle/senior managers (ie, not me)Con: it doesn't talk about the fundamentals as much as SwitchPro: it has a more step-by-step framework than SwitchI guess I'd say it's... Kotter's book emphasizes the need to incorporate emotional appeal and demonstration into the organizational change process. He argues convincingly - supported by many examples - for a "see-feel'change" rather than an "analyze-think-change" approach, while not discounting the need for analysis and information. It's a useful book for... This was a good book teaching about change management. In order to create lasting change it emphasizes the need to really influence people's emotions and not just their thinking. There are eight important things necessary in this type of change:1. urgency2. the right guiding team3. vision4. communication5. empowerment6. short-term wins7....
