Unlock Now The Heart Of Change: Real-Life Stories Of How People Change Their Organizations Developed By John P. Kotter Available As Paperback

really great book on understanding how to lead the change, I loved the examples involving real companies and real people, the examples are about successes and failures which makes the sound very true.
JP Kotter really emphasizes affecting people feelings and emotions to start the change, continue and not stop in the middle.
A great guide with specific steps on how to lead change highly recommend for any and all leaders! Mi sa parut greoi scrisa.
Nam tras mari invataminte din ea, Great case studies of companies who have leveraged thestep organizational transformation stages of John Kotter's framework, I liked the fact that the book was built around examples, which makes the arguments and ideas more sticky.


On the other hand, I'm skeptic about the whole concept of topdown large scale organizational change.
I've read this book in the midst of my study of lean practices and principles and find those very superior in terms of change prescriptions and dynamics.
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Not, terrible, possibly useful, but underwhelming as one of the “classics” of new management literature.
Much preferred Drive or Switch, Very practical approach to change, Read for EdD program. I really enjoyed this book! I had to read it for my Doctorate, but the author makes the steps of organizational change easier to understand through storytelling.
The tactic helps you to absorb the information as well as inspire you to take action, Great book! read for grad school, I kinda have mixed feelings on this one,

Con: it was a little on the repetitive/boring side,
Pro: repetition is the mother of all learning,

Con: it's written targeted at middle/senior managers ie, not me

Con: it doesn't talk about the fundamentals as much as Switch
Pro: it has a more stepbystep framework than Switch

I guess I'd say it's a really good book for a manager type to read as opposed to Switch, which I would recommend for a peon like myself.
But the first book I'd suggest for a manger would be Drive this is a reasonable second, Businesses and large organizations need to change in order to stay competitive and relevant, But change is hard and there are many that think that good enough is good enough, or that it's work so far.
. . Kotter hassteps and lots of stories to help demonstrate how a manager will lead the change,

Why I started this book: Audio for the win,

Why I finished it: Short audio, with some great but dated stories, First published inVideo conferencing is going to be a huge management win, Good reminder that humans are emotional creatures and stories and examples that show in concrete and emotional terms the cost of something will stick for a long time.
gloves with the various prices paid on a conference table has a greater impact than just putting it in a power point.
Why is organizational change so hard Because in order to make any transformation successful, you must change more than just the structure and operations of an organizationyou need to change peoples behavior.
And that is never easy,

The Heart of Change is your guide to helping people think and feel differently in order to meet your shared goals.
According to bestselling author and renowned leadership expert John Kotter and coauthor Dan Cohen, this focus on connecting with peoples emotions is what will spark the behavior change and actions that lead to success.
Now freshly designed, The Heart of Change is the engaging and essential complement to John Kotters international bestseller Leading Change.


Building off of Kotters revolutionary eightstep process, this book vividly illustrates how largescale business change can work.
With reallife stories of people in organizations, the authors show how teams and individuals get motivated and activated to overcome obstacles to changeand produce spectacular results.
Kotter and Cohen argue that change initiatives often fail because leaders rely too exclusively on data and analysis to get buyin from their teams, instead of creatively showing or doing something that appeals to their emotions and inspires them to spring into action.
They call this the seefeelchange dynamic and it is crucial for the success of any true organizational transformation.


Refreshingly clear and eminently practical, The Heart of Change is required reading for anyone facing change and looking to build their leadership skills.


Published by Harvard Business Press,
I read this for a work book club, I've read a few other change management books and this one provided absolutely nothing new, It also included tired examples that I've seen in other books, like the "gloves" example, If you have never read a change management book, this is useful, If you have, not so much, قصص واقعية و تجارب غنية عن التغيير في الأفكار و الاعمال
مفيدة لمن يملك او لا يملك عملا مستقلا.
كل فصل يتحدث عن خطوة في اتجاه التغيير Harry C. Edwards wrote this review. The Heart of Change is the followup to John Kotter's enormously popular book Leading Change, in which he

outlines a framework for implementing change that sidesteps many of the pitfalls common to organizations looking to turn themselves around.
The essence of Kotter's message is this: the reason so many change initiatives fail is that they rely too much on "data gathering, analysis, report writing, and presentations" instead of a more creative approach aimed at grabbing the "feelings that motivate useful action.
" In The Heart of Change, Kotter, with the help of Dan Cohen, a partner at Deloitte Consulting, shows how his eightstep approach has worked at overorganizations.
In just about every case, change happened because the players were led to "see" and "feel" the change.
In one example, a sales representative underscores a sense of urgency to change a manufacturing process by showing a videotaped interview with an unhappy customer in another, a purchasing manager makes his point to senior management about corporate waste by displaying on the company's boardroom table thedifferent kinds of gloves that the company had procured through different vendors at vastly different prices.
Well written and loaded with reallife examples and practical advice, The Heart of Change towers over other changemanagement titles.
Managers and employees at organizations both big and small will find much to draw from, Highly recommended. Harry C. Edwards Este libro me ha sorprendido gratamente, Pensaba que iba a ser un libro académico y demasiado teórico, pero se lee con rapidez y deja claros los conceptos.
Para aquellas personas que estén interesadas en cómo se gestiona el cambio, pienso que es una lectura imprescindible.


Kotter es precisamente famoso por haber estudiado organizaciones y los cambios que se producen en ellas.
En "The heart of change" Kotter recomienda convencer primero los corazones de los empleados apelar a sus sentimientos positivos, y luego "atacar" sus mentes con planes más detallados.
Eso es lo más interesante del libro, Muchas veces he visto presentaciones sobre el cambio que son un torre de diapositivas con datos, gráficos y número tras número, cuando lo necesario para arrancar el proceso son pocas ideas y mucha rapidez.
Debemos hablar de meses, no de años aunque el cambio es algo constante,

Un libro imprescindible para ls que estén interesads en cómo funcionan las organizaciones y se convence a un grupo de personas para actuar I'm skimmed this a bit, but it was still quite good.
I appreciated the real life stories, It was encouraging to read how organizations found ways to get to the heart of change, Explainssteps to changing a group of people for a better organization, Good read.
I had to read this book for an organizational change course in my Ed, D. program I was not interested in this topic before, but I really did love this book! The practical examples that were included made for a fun and practical read.
This is a sequel to the seminal book “Leading change” by Kotter, I stumbled onto the original book via an HBR article and was surprised by how relevant the book was, even forty years after being written.
This book “Heart of change” expounds further on thestage framework for leading transformational change and explains how people need to “see” changes, “feel” deeply about the desired change and only then be able to effectively change.
More importantly, the book provides compelling real world stories of how change happened in many companies, If you are trying to effect a transformation of any sort in your org, this book is invaluable.
Very relatable and actionable. Outdated examples

Outdated examples that don't provide relevant knowledge for this day and age.
Better books are available on the topic of change, Better than I thought, but most management are jerks so I doubt much of it would work, This appreciate John Kotter's evidencebased approach, I have suggested this book to many clients, Bravo, John! This book is a followup to Leading Change, It illustrates Kotter's change theory see next paragraph with real stories, Main finding of The Heart of Change: the central issue is never strategy, structure, culture, or systems core of the matter is always about changing behavior or people which happens mostly by speaking to their feelings.
Highly successful change efforts folow a seeingfeelingchanging pattern,

Kotter's eight stages: push urgency up, put together a guiding team, create the vision and strategies, effectively communicate the vision and strategies, remove barriers to action, accomplish shortterm wins, keep pushing for wave after wave of change until the work is done, and create a new culture to make new behavior stick

My favorite stories from the book:
Gloves on the Boardroom Table
Meeting Down Under
The Plane Will Not Move!
The Body in the Living Room
Making Movies on the Factory Floor
ReducingPages to
The Street
The Path to the Patient
The Home Mortgage John P.
Kotter, world renowned expert on leadership, is the author of many books, including Leading Change, Our Iceberg is Melting, The Heart of Change, and his latest book, Thats Not How We Do It Here!.
He is the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School, and a graduate of MIT and Harvard.
He is co founder of Kotter International, a change management and strategy execution firm that helps organizations engage employees in a movement to drive change and reach sustainable results.
He and his wife Nancy live in Boston, Massachusetts, sitelink John P. Kotter, world renowned expert on leadership, is the author of many books, including Leading Change, Our Iceberg is Melting, The Heart of Change, and his latest book, That's Not How We Do It Here!.
He is the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School, and a graduate of MIT and Harvard.
He is co founder of Kotter International, a change management and strategy execution firm that helps organizations engage employees in a movement to drive change and reach sustainable results.
He and his wife Nancy live in Boston, Massachusetts, sitelink sitelink.