The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations
By interviewing 400 individuals from 130 distinct businesses to get their change sagas, authors John P. Kotter and Dan S. Cohen further develop the approach to organizational change presented in Kotter's Leading Change (1996). Their central insight is that organizations change when their people change. And people change for emotional reasons. The authors warn against trying to promote transformation in your organization by relying purely on spreadsheets or reports; they provide background information on why it is also important to address employees' emotions. They explain that the best way to engage the emotions is not to "tell" but to "show" - via videos, displays, or even office design. The visual sense, they point out, processes enormous amounts of complex information instantly.

At the end of each chapter, the authors include useful and simple "Exercises That Might Help." Kotter reintroduces his eight-step change model and demonstrates how it works, using stories of real-life managers and companies as concrete examples for each of the eight steps. Thus the form of the book - "showing" - exactly replicates its core lesson.

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The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations
By interviewing 400 individuals from 130 distinct businesses to get their change sagas, authors John P. Kotter and Dan S. Cohen further develop the approach to organizational change presented in Kotter's Leading Change (1996). Their central insight is that organizations change when their people change. And people change for emotional reasons. The authors warn against trying to promote transformation in your organization by relying purely on spreadsheets or reports; they provide background information on why it is also important to address employees' emotions. They explain that the best way to engage the emotions is not to "tell" but to "show" - via videos, displays, or even office design. The visual sense, they point out, processes enormous amounts of complex information instantly.

At the end of each chapter, the authors include useful and simple "Exercises That Might Help." Kotter reintroduces his eight-step change model and demonstrates how it works, using stories of real-life managers and companies as concrete examples for each of the eight steps. Thus the form of the book - "showing" - exactly replicates its core lesson.

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The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations

The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations

by John Kotter, Dan Cohen
The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations

The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations

by John Kotter, Dan Cohen

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By interviewing 400 individuals from 130 distinct businesses to get their change sagas, authors John P. Kotter and Dan S. Cohen further develop the approach to organizational change presented in Kotter's Leading Change (1996). Their central insight is that organizations change when their people change. And people change for emotional reasons. The authors warn against trying to promote transformation in your organization by relying purely on spreadsheets or reports; they provide background information on why it is also important to address employees' emotions. They explain that the best way to engage the emotions is not to "tell" but to "show" - via videos, displays, or even office design. The visual sense, they point out, processes enormous amounts of complex information instantly.

At the end of each chapter, the authors include useful and simple "Exercises That Might Help." Kotter reintroduces his eight-step change model and demonstrates how it works, using stories of real-life managers and companies as concrete examples for each of the eight steps. Thus the form of the book - "showing" - exactly replicates its core lesson.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781422148013
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
Publication date: 08/01/2002
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 208
File size: 1 MB

About the Author


John P. Kotter is internationally regarded as the foremost authority on the topics of leadership and change. His is the premier voice on how the best organizations achieve successful transformations. Kotter is the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership, Emeritus, at Harvard Business School and is cofounder of Kotter International, a leadership organization that helps Global 5000 company leaders accelerate the implementation of their most critical strategies and lead change in a complex, fast-moving business environment. John Kotter has authored eighteen books, twelve of them bestsellers. His works have been printed in over 150 foreign-language editions.

Dan S. Cohen is the CEO of Stuart Advisory Services Group and a retired partner of Deloitte Consulting LLP. He focuses on large-scale organizational transformation and strategic change, and has over thirty-five years of experience consulting to and working in industry. During his fifteen years at Deloitte, Cohen developed the firm’s first Global Change Leadership methodology and was the lead architect in the design of Deloitte’s Strategic Change methodology. In addition to his consulting work, Cohen has lectured on organizational behavior at Ohio State University, Miami University, the University of Detroit, and Southern Methodist University.

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