Even when it is obvious to you that change in your organization is necessary, the difficulties that loom for creating that change can be intimidating. Or perhaps the change effort is well underway in your organization, but faltering. John Kotter, Harvard Business School's leadership and change guru, sits down with BetterManagement to talk about what he has learned about changing organizations, why some change management efforts succeed, and why others fail.
This interview provides guideposts for measuring your own change effort, using Kotter's eight-step process for successful change. These are:
- Create a sense of urgency
- Pull together the guiding team
- Develop the vision and change strategy
- Communicate for understanding and buy-in
- Empower others to act
- Produce short-term wins
- Don’t let up
- Create a new culture
The lessons you can draw from this interview will serve you well on the job, in your family and in your community. Based on John Kotter’s pioneering work on how to make smart change happen faster and better, the interview provides invaluable guidance no matter where you are in the organization—executives, managers and aspiring leaders at any level will all benefit. And the lessons are becoming ever more important as the world around us changes faster and faster.
About John P. Kotter
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John P. Kotter, a world-renowned expert on leadership at the Harvard Business School, has been the premier voice on how the best organizations actually "do" change. His international bestseller Leading Change—which outlined an actionable, 8-step process for implementing successful transformations—became the change bible for managers around the world.
In October 2001, Business Week magazine rated Kotter the #1 "leadership guru" in America based on a survey they conducted of 504 enterprises.
For more information on Kotter's books and the eight steps for successful change, visit the web site for his new book, www.ouricebergismelting.com.
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