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Leading Change
: I just finished reading this book for a book report topic in my Masters program (HR and OD). I found it was easy to read and highly applicable. While I am not practicing OD now, I plan to keep this book on top of the stack. It was excellent and I am going to recommend it to my peers and management team.
 How many books have you read that have the mantra that change is important, you have to change, etc, and yada, yada, yada? I cannot argue against these principles. My head knows it. I need to convince my heart and my hands and get going about change. Kotter's book offers good practical advice on going about transformational change. It isn't rocket science, and it's common sense. But I'm not sure if it's common practice. I enjoy the easy, almost conversational style and tone (and some Kotter wry humor) so much so that I managed to read it cover to cover over the weekend. Combined with another good book on change (see William Bridges' "Managing Transitions"), and you'd have with you a solid practical framwork and process to drive the change in organizations.
After plowing through scores of management books written by people who probably couldn't manage their way out of a paper bag, I was overjoyed to find this book. It will be immensely useful to anyone who wants to actually accomplish change in an organization. Read this book before you waste money buying inspirational posters and hiring high-priced "organizational change" consultants. Mr. Kotter has done his research and it shows -- he is a breath of fresh air in a field crowded with blowhards. In my opinion, he is the foremost business theorist/analyst today.
I have enjoyed Kotters work on Leading Change since it arrived. I've not grown tired of it or found a better compendium . It is a core element in my MBA seminar on Strategic Innovation and Renewal. What is rewarding is the appeal to experienced managers as well as apprentices. The material is also relevant to non-profits and personal strategies. The emphasis on vision is most salient. Above all, the work is readable. Thanks, Professor Kotter. You wrote the book we'd all liked to have written.
Having just been promoted as director of a department whose purpose is to effect change in one faction of our firm's IT division, I found this book to lead me through the most important of considerations. Highly recommended for anyone who finds themselves in a position of needing to effect change and cannot afford a fatal error.
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