Understanding Change Management: ‘Our Iceberg is Melting’

Harvard Business School Professor John Kotter talks about his book “Our Iceberg Is Melting” with a familiar friend (in a YouTube video), see below.

This is a great book, telling you a story

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You will understand how to apply Change Management in your own business situation when you have read it!

• Reviews on Amazon.com
• Kotter’s book ‘Heart of Change’ is mentioned by manager-tools.com as one of their favorite books
• Our Iceberg is Melting site – contains some other great videos!
• Site of John Kotter
• John Kotter on How Change Is Changing
• Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail (full HBR article)

The eight steps for change!

1. Establish a Sense of Urgency
2. Form a Powerful Guiding Coalition
3. Create a Vision
4. Communicate the Vision
5. Empower Others to Act on the Vision
6. Plan for and Create Short-Term Wins
7. Consolidate Improvements and Produce Still More Change
8. Institutionalize New Approaches

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• The Meeting Introduction

Business Strategy and Change Management:

• Setting up Business Strategy
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• Business Model Innovation
• Alignment: ‘everybody needs to understand the value of their role’
• Summary of the article ‘Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard’ by Robert Kaplan
• Strategy articles in the Harvard Business School website

Other resources on Change Management:

• Another ‘Change Iceberg’ – not related to the work of John Kotter; but useful!
• Change management forum (12manage.com)
  
• The McKinsey Quarterly, the business journal of McKinsey & Company – on Change Management

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