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!
- Establish a Sense of Urgency
- Form a Powerful Guiding Coalition
- Create a Vision
- Communicate the Vision
- Empower Others to Act on the Vision
- Plan for and Create Short-Term Wins
- Consolidate Improvements and Produce Still More Change
- Institutionalize New Approaches
What other tools can help you with Change Management programs:
- Improve Communication skills that you can use in Change Management projects
- Improve Collaboration in large professional companies
- Visual thinking solves your business problems
- The Skilled Facilitator
- The Innovator’s Solution’: best book on innovation
- The Meeting Introduction
Business Strategy and Change Management:
- Setting up Business Strategy
- Favorite Books on Business Strategy (of LinkedIn users)
- Favorite books on Management Consultancy (of LinkedIn users)
- 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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