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Born | February 25, 1947 (age 72) San Diego, California, U.S |
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Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harvard Business School |
Occupation | author, educator, management consultant, scholar |
John Paul Kotter is the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership, Emeritus, at the Harvard Business School,[1] a New York Times best-selling author,[2] and the founder of Kotter International (a management consulting firm based in Seattle and Boston).[3] He is a well-known thought leader in the fields of business, leadership, and change.[4]
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Early life[edit]
Kotter graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering in 1968 and a Master of Science in Management in 1970. Kotter then completed his Doctor of Business Administration in 1972 at Harvard Business School. Kotter is an alumnus of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity.
Career[edit]
In 1972, the same year he completed his doctorate, Kotter joined the Harvard Business School faculty. He received tenure and a full professorship in 1981. He was later named the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership. Kotter retired as a full-time faculty member from Harvard in 2001.
In 2008, he co-founded Kotter International with two others, where he currently serves as Chairman.[5] The business consultancy firm applies Kotter's research on leadership, strategy execution, transformation, and any form of large-scale change.
Since early in his career, Kotter has received numerous awards for his thought leadership in his field from Harvard Business Review, Bloomberg BusinessWeek,[6] Thinkers50,[4] Global Gurus[7] and others.
Written Work[edit]
Kotter is the author of 20 books, 12 of which have been business bestsellers and two of which are overall New York Times bestsellers.[2]
Leading Change[edit]
His international bestseller Leading Change (1996), 'is considered by many to be the seminal work in the field of change management.'[8] William C. Finnie, Editor-in-Chief of Strategy & Leadership described it as 'simply the best single work I have seen on strategy implementation'.[9] The book outlines a practical 8-step process for change management :
- Establishing a Sense of Urgency
- Creating the Guiding Coalition
- Developing a Vision and Strategy
- Communicating the Change Vision
- Empowering Employees for Broad-Based Action
- Generating Short-Term Wins
- Consolidating Gains and Producing More Change
- Anchoring New Approaches in the Culture
In 2011, TIME magazine listed Leading Change as one of the 'Top 25 Most Influential Business Management Books' of all time.[10][11]
Our Iceberg is Melting[edit]
In 2006, Kotter co-wrote Our Iceberg is Melting[12] with Holger Rathgeber where those same 8 steps were expanded into an allegory about penguins. In the book, a group of penguins whose iceberg is melting must change in order to survive while their iceberg home melts.
Accelerate[edit]
More recently, Kotter released Buy In[13] (2010), A Sense of Urgency[14] (2008) and Accelerate (2014).[15]
His educational articles in the Harvard Business Review magazine continue to be among the magazine's top sellers.[16] His Harvard Business Review article 'Accelerate!',[17] where he outlines a new type of business structure, won the 2012 McKinsey Award, recognizing it as the most significant article published in the magazine that year.[18]
Personal life[edit]
Kotter lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Ashland, New Hampshire, with his wife, Nancy Dearman. They have two children.[3]
Works[edit]
- Kotter, John P. (1974). Mayors In Action. John Wiley & Sons Inc. ISBN047150540-4.
- Kotter, John P. (1991) [1978]. Self Assessment & Career Development. Prentice Hall. ISBN0138031487.
- Kotter, John P. (1979). Power in Management. Amacom Books. ISBN0814455077.
- Kotter, John P. (1979). Organization - Texts, Cases, and Readings on the Management of Organizational Design and Change. R. D. Irwin. ISBN0256022267.
- Kotter, John P. (1986). The General Managers. Free Press. ISBN0029182301.
- Kotter, John P. (2008) [1985]. Power and Influence. Free Press. ISBN1439146799.
- Kotter, John P. (1988). The Leadership Factor. Free Press. ISBN0029183316.
- Kotter, John P. (1990). A Force for Change. Free Press. ISBN0029184657.
- Kotter, John P. (2011) [1992]. Corporate Culture and Performance. Free Press. ISBN1451655320.
- Kotter, John P. (1995). The New Rules. Free Press. ISBN0029175860.
- Kotter, John P. (1996). Leading Change. Harvard Business School Press. ISBN978-0-87584-747-4.
- Kotter, John P. (1997). Matsushita Leadership: Lessons from the 20th Century's Most Remarkable Entrepreneur. New York: The Free Press. ISBN9780684834603. OCLC35620432.
- 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). A Sense of Urgency. United States: Harvard Business School Publishing. ISBN978-1-4221-7971-0.
- Kotter, John P. (2008). Managing Your Boss. ISBN9781422122884.
- Kotter, John P. (2010). Buy In. ISBN9781422157299.
- Kotter, John P. (2014). Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World. p. 224. ISBN978-1625271747.
- 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. ISBN978-0399563942.
Notes[edit]
- ^Kotter, John P. 'John P. Kotter - Faculty - Harvard Business School'. Hbs.edu. Retrieved 24 August 2014.
- ^ ab'Kotter'. www.HBR.org. Retrieved 3 September 2013.
- ^ ab'Professor John P. Kotter'. www.KotterInternational.com. Kotter International. Retrieved 17 September 2013.
- ^ ab'Thinkers 50 | Scanning, ranking and sharing the best management ideas in the world'. thinkers50.com. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
- ^'Bios - John Kotter'. Kotter International. Retrieved 24 August 2014.
- ^'Rating the Management Gurus'. Businessweek. 2001-10-14. Retrieved 24 August 2014.
- ^'Management Guru's |'. globalgurus.org. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
- ^Aiken, Carolyn; Keller, Scott (April 2009). 'The Irrational Side of Change Management'. The McKinsey Quarterly. McKinsey & Company. Retrieved 18 June 2009.
- ^Kotter, J.P. (1996). Leading Change. Harvard Business School Press. ISBN9780875847474. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
- ^'Complete List - The 25 Most Influential Business Management Books - TIME'. content.time.com. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
- ^Medintz, Scott (9 August 2011). 'Top 25 Most Influential Business Management Books: Leading Change (1996), by John Kotter'. TIME.com. Retrieved 17 September 2013.
- ^'Our Iceberg Is Melting | John Kotter | Macmillan'. us.macmillan.com. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
- ^'Buy-In - Kotter International'. kotterinternational.com. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
- ^'Amazon.com: A Sense of Urgency (9781422179710): John P. Kotter: Books'. Archived from the original on 24 September 2008. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
- ^'Amazon.com: Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World (9781625271747): John P. Kotter: Books'. amazon.com. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
- ^Hasbe, Sudhir. '25 Best-Selling Harvard Business Review articles of all time'. mgmtblog.com. Management and Strategy. Retrieved 17 September 2013.
- ^'Accelerate! - HBR'. hbr.org. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
- ^'The 2012 McKinsey Award Winners'. www.HBR.org. Harvard Business Review. Retrieved 17 September 2013.
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