John Kotter biografie en boeken

John Kotter (1947) is een Amerikaans bedrijfskundige en emeritus hoogleraar in organisatiekunde en veranderingsmanagement aan de Harvard Universiteit. John Kotter is onder andere bekend als grondlegger van het Kotter 8 step change model en de Six Change Approaches.

Biografie John Kotter

John Kotter behaalde zijn Bachelor graad (BSc.) aan de Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). De graad van Master of Science verwierf hij aan de MIT Sloan School of Management in 1970. Twee jaar daarna promoveerde hij tot “doctor of business administration” (DBA) aan de Harvard universiteit.

Op 33-jarige leeftijd (1980) werd John Kotter professor aan de Harvard Business School.

In oktober 2001 meldde het tijdschrift Business Week dat uit een onderzoek onder 504 bedrijven was gebleken, dat deze bedrijven hem op dat moment als de belangrijkste persoon betitelden op het gebied van leiderschap.

Bekende quotes van John Kotter

1. “Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there.”
2. “Because management deals mostly with the status quo and leadership deals mostly with change, in the next century we are going to have to try to become much more skilled at creating leaders.”
3. “A higher rate of urgency does not imply ever-present panic, anxiety, or fear. It means a state in which complacency is virtually absent.”
4. “Great leaders understand that historical success tends to produce stable and inwardly focused organizations, and these outfits, in turn, reinforce a feeling of contentment with the status quo.”
5. “Tradition is a very powerful force.”
6. “We are always creating new tools and techniques to help people, but the fundamental framework is remarkably resilient, which means it must have something to do with the nature of organizations or human nature.”
7. “Managers are trained to make incremental, programmatic improvements. They aren’t trained to lead large-scale change.”
8. “The rate of change is not going to slow down anytime soon. If anything, competition in most industries will probably speed up even more in the next few decades.”
9. “Transformation is a process, not an event.”
10. “Management makes a system work. It helps you do what you know how to do. Leadership builds systems or transforms old ones.”
11. “Nothing undermines change more than behavior by important individuals that is inconsistent with the verbal communication.”

Bekende publicaties en boeken van Kotter et al.

• 2019. Accelerate. Elex Media Komputindo.
• 2018. HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Leadership for Healthcare. Harvard Business Press.
• 2016. That’s Not How We Do it Here: A Story about How Organizations Rise and Fall — and Can Rise Again. Portfolio Penguin.
• 2014. Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World. Harvard Business Review Press.
• 2012, 1996. Leading change. Harvard Business Press.
• 2011, 1992. Corporate Culture and Performance. Simon & Schuster.
• 2010. Buy-In: Saving Your Good Idea from Getting Shot Down. Harvard Business Review Press.
• 2009. Leading change: why transformation efforts fail. Journal: IEEE Engineering Management Review , vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 42-48.
• 2008. Developing a change-friendly culture. Journal: Leader To Leader , vol. 2008, no. 48, pp. 33-38.
• 2008. Managing Your Boss. Harvard Business Review Press.
• 2008. A Sense of Urgency. Harvard Business Press.
• 2006. Our Iceberg Is Melting. St. Martin’s Press.
• 2004. The heart of change: Real-life stories of how people change their organizations. Journal: New Directions for Philanthropic Fundraising , vol. 43, no. 7, pp. 45-46.
• 2003. Creative ways to empower action to change the organization: Cases in point. Journal of Organizational Excellence , vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 101-101.
• 2002. The Heart of Change: Real-life Stories of how People Change Their Organizations. Harvard Business Press.
• 1999. What Leaders Really Do.
• 1998. Winning at change.
• 1997. Leading change: A conversation with John P. Kotter. Journal: Strategy & Leadership , vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 18-23.
• 1997. Matsushita Leadership: Lessons from the 20th Century’s Most Remarkable Entrepreneur. Free Press.
• 1990. A Force for Change: How Leadership Differs from Management. Simon & Schuster.
• 1988. Strategic determinants of managerial labor markets: A career systems view. Journal: Human Resource Management – HUM RESOUR MANAGE , vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 369-388.
• 1986. The General Managers. Simon & Schuster.
• 1985. Power and Influence. Free Press.
• 1979. Organization – Texts, Cases, and Readings on the Management of Organizational Design and Change. R. D. Irwin.
• 1979. Power in Management. Amacom Books.
• 1978. Self Assessment & Career Development. Prentice Hall.
• 1974. Mayors In Action. John Wiley.

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