John Kotter Biography

Author of books about leadership

John Paul Kotter is the Konosuke Matsu*a Professor of Leadership, Emeritus, at the Harvard Business School, an author, and the founder of Kotter International, a management consulting firm based in Seattle and Boston. He is a thought leader in business, leadership, and change.

Career

John Kotter is an emeritus from Harvard Business School where he started teaching in 1972. He is the founder of Kotter International, and started his business in 2010 with locations in Cambridge M*achusetts and Seattle Washington. He currently serves as Chairman of Kotter International alongside CEO, Rick Western, Chief Commercial Officer, Kathy Gersch, Chief Financial Officer, Tanya Kruger and many more.

Kotter is also an author, speaker, and entrepreneur in the lines of business and leadership.

Personal life

Kotter lives in Boston, M*achusetts with his wife, Nancy Dearman. They have two children, Caroline and Jonathan.

Written work

Kotter is the author of 21 books, as listed below. 12 of these have been business bestsellers and two of which are overall New York Times bestsellers.

• Kotter, John P. (1974). Mayors In Action. John Wiley & Sons Inc. ISBN:047150540-4.
• Kotter, John P. (1979). Power in Management. Amacom Books. ISBN:0814455077.
• Kotter, John P. (1979). Organization - Texts, Cases, and Readings on the Management of Organizational Design and Change. R. D. Irwin. ISBN:0256022267.
• Kotter, John P. (1986). The General Managers. Free Press. ISBN:0029182301.
• Kotter, John P. (1988). The Leadership Factor. Free Press. ISBN:0029183316.
• Kotter, John P. (1990). A Force for Change. Free Press. ISBN:0029184657.
• Kotter, John P. (1991) . Self *essment & Career Development. Prentice Hall. ISBN:0138031487.
• Kotter, John P. (1995). The New Rules. Free Press. ISBN:0029175860.
• Kotter, John P. (1996). Leading Change. Harvard Business School Press. ISBN:978-0-87584-747-4.
• Kotter, John P. (1997). Matsu*a Leadership: Lessons from the 20th Century's Most Remarkable Entrepreneur. New York: The Free Press. ISBN:9780684834603. OCLC:35620432.
• Kotter, John P. (1999). John P. Kotter on What Leaders Really Do.
• Kotter, John P. (2002). The Heart of Change.
• Kotter, John P. (2006). Our Iceberg is Melting.
• Kotter, John P. (2008) . Power and Influence. Free Press. ISBN:978-1439146798.
• Kotter, John P. (2008). A Sense of Urgency. United States: Harvard Business School Publishing. ISBN:978-1-4221-7971-0.
• Kotter, John P. (2008). Managing Your Boss. ISBN:9781422122884.
• Kotter, John P. (2010). Buy In. ISBN:9781422157299.
• Kotter, John P. (2011) . Corporate Culture and Performance. Free Press. ISBN:978-1451655322.
• Kotter, John P. (2014). Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World. p.:224. ISBN:978-1625271747.
• Kotter, John P. (2016). That's Not How We Do It Here!: A Story about How Organizations Rise and Fall--and Can Rise Again. p.:176. ISBN:978-0399563942.
• Kotter, John P. (2021). CHANGE: How Organizations Achieve Hard-to-Imagine Results Despite Uncertain and Volatile Times. p.:240. ISBN:978-1119815846.

Successful change

See also: Change management §:Change models

In Leading Change (1996), and subsequently in The Heart of Change (2002), Kotter describes an eight stage model of successful change in which he seeks to support managers to lead change and to understand how people accept, engage with and maintain successful organisational change. The eight stages or steps include the creation of "a sense of urgency" and the use of "short-term wins".

Short-term wins, within a 6–18 month window, are considered necessary because " organization has to realize some benefits from change effort to maintain stakeholder commitment". Kotter *erts that to be useful or influential, short-term wins need to be "visible and unambiguous" as well as "closely related to the change effort".: 121–2  Arguing against a belief that there is a "trade-off" between wins in the short-term and wins in the long-term, Kotter argues from experience that both are achievable.: 125 

References

External links

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• Harvard Business School Faculty Bio
• 2006 IMNO Interview
• Kotter International home page