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Restructuring can sound like an intimidating process, but it’s ultimately about focusing on efficiencies and profitability to drive beneficial change. Learn how to tackle restructuring in our newly released book, Change.
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Corporate Culture and Performance
Corporate Culture and Performance
In Corporate Culture and Performance, Dr. Kotter discusses the role that culture (broadly defined as the shared attitudes, behavioral patterns, and values that cohesive human groups pass on from one generation to the next) can play in the capacity of major corporations to succeed or fail in the marketplace.
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What Leaders Really Do
What Leaders Really Do
In his book What Leaders Really Do, Dr. Kotter outlines that most corporations today are overmanaged and underled. Successful corporations don’t wait for leaders to come along. They actively seek out people with leadership potential and expose them to career experiences designed to develop that potential. But while improving their ability to lead, companies should remember that strong leadership with weak management is no better. The real challenge is to combine strong leadership and strong management and use each to balance the other.
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Matsushita Leadership
Matsushita Leadership
Winner of the Financial Times Book Award, Dr. Kotter recounts the fascinating life of Konosuke Matsushita (1894-1989), the founder of Matsushita Electric Company. Matsushita started his adult life with no money, no connections, fewer than four years of formal education, and a family history filled with trauma. Yet his company’s growth in revenues has exceeded that of the companies of such famous entrepreneurs as Soichiro Honda (Honda), Sam Walton (Wal-Mart), Akio Morita (Sony), James Cash Penney (J.C. Penney), and Henry Ford (Ford). Not a biography, this chronological bibliograhy instead highlights the educational patterns of Matsushita’s life and draws out lessons from which readers in management can learn. Kotter clearly illustrates how Matsushita was able to motivate large groups of individuals.
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The New Rules
The New Rules
In The New Rules, Dr. Kotter prescribes how to win success at work that were formulated after tracking the careers of 115 Harvard Business School graduates for the last 20 years. In those two decades, Kotter detected a significant shift in what is required to succeed but notes that many are still attempting to use old strategies. The globalization of markets and competition is driving the shift and that those who do well today have “capitalized on globalization by pursuing career paths that are less linear, more dynamic, and more unstable.”
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MANAGING YOUR BOSS
MANAGING YOUR BOSS
Managing your boss: Isn’t that merely manipulation? Corporate cozying up? Not according to John Gabarro and John Kotter. In this handy guidebook, the authors contend that you manage your boss for a very good reason: to do your best on the job–and thereby benefit not only yourself, but also your supervisor, and your entire company. By managing your boss–clarifying your own and your supervisor’s strengths, weaknesses, goals, work styles, and needs–you cultivate a relationship based on mutual respect and understanding. The result? A healthy, productive bond that enables you both to excel.
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Power and Influence
Power and Influence
In Power and Influence, Dr. Kotter talks about how to exercise the power and influence you need to get things done through others when your responsibilities exceed your formal authority. Full of original ideas and expert insights about how organizations, and the people in them, function, Power and Influence goes further, demonstrating that lower-level personnel also need strong leadership skills and interpersonal know-how to perform well.
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The General Managers
The General Managers
In The General Managers, Dr. Kotter takes on the popular management notion of the effective “generalist” manager who can step into any business or division and run it. Based on his first-hand observations of fifteen top GMs from nine major companies, Kotter persuasively shows that the best manager is actually a specialist who has spent most of his or her career in one industry, learning its intricacies and establishing cooperative working relationships.
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The Leadership Factor
The Leadership Factor
In The Leadership Factor, Dr. Kotter discusses the need for leadership at all levels. He explains how business is changing and the impact of these changes on leadership, makes recommendations based on research findings, and unlike other writers on this subject, shows how to implement the recommendations step-by-step.
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A Force For Change
A Force For Change
In A Force For Change, Dr. Kotter shows, with compelling evidence, what leadership really means today, how it is different from management, and why both good leadership and management are essential for business success, especially for complex organizations operating in changing environments.
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