Great book on leadership and how to drive gchange ( )

Effective change management is one of business; holy grails and its Percival is John Kotter. Any treatise on change management will inevitably refer to this text and the program that Kotter developed is a great look at what needs to be done and the issues that usually go awry. While by no means a blueprint for success, this is an essential read for everyone who manages people. ( )

Kotter's eight step process is a great framework to think about how a planned change can be deployed in an existing organization. There was also a good discussion about the difference between management and leadership. One think not discussed was how the vision might be modified as the process proceeds. The material in this book is 5 stars, but the book itself has a lot of filler. I think the original HBR article was better than this book because it captured all the critical issues without the extra verbosity. ( )

John Kotter is considered the expert on Change Management. Although, I thought his arguments for the Eight step process were valid, this book doesn't offer the information one would need to actually implement change. I thought it was more of a sales book than a functional book. The highlight of the book for me was the important difference between Leadership and Management. I hope that this information becomes more mainstream - because of the projects I've worked on, that is definitely the missing piece. ( )