Change Management

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If you read nothing else on change, read these bestselling articles.

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Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail
by John P. Kotter

Cracking the Code of Change
by Michael Beer and Nitin Nohria

Change Through Persuasion
by David A. Garvin and Michael A. Roberto

Tipping Point Leadership
by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne

The Real Reason People Won’t Change
by Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey

The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations
by John P. Kotter and Dan S. Cohen A Harvard Business Press Book Summary in Partnership with getAbstract

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Leading Change
Why Transformation Efforts Fail
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Leading Change
Why Transformation Efforts Fail

The Idea in Brief
Most major change initiatives—whether intended to boost quality, improve culture, or reverse a corporate death spiral—generate only lukewarm results. Many fail miserably. Why? Kotter maintains that too many managers don’t realize transformation is a process, not an event. It advances through stages that build on each other. And it takes years. Pressured to accelerate the process, managers skip stages. But shortcuts never work. Equally troubling, even highly capable managers make critical mistakes—such as declaring victory too soon. Result? Loss of momentum, reversal of hard-won gains,... [continues]

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