management. What demands will a fast moving, more turbulent business climate place on those in positions of leadership? What are the essential skills needed to cope with these demands?
Participants in this program will learn how to:
- Recognize how leadership relates to change and how it must differentiate itself from management
- Understand how the business environment sustains its ever-increasing speed of change
- Comprehend and embrace the demands placed on leaders and the skills needed to deal with those demands
- Identify and emulate great business leaders
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Harvard Business School Professor John Kotter is widely regarded as the world's foremost authority on leadership and change. His has been the premier voice on how the best organizations actually "do" change. John Kotter's bestseller Leading Change has outlined an actionable, eight-step process for implementing successful transformations and has become the change bible for managers around the world. Business Week magazine rated Kotter the #1 "leadership guru" in America based on a survey they conducted of over 500 different companies. His newest work, Our Iceberg Is Melting, puts the eight-step process within an allegory, making it accessible to the broad range of people needed to effect major organizational transformations.
Professor Kotter is the author of fifteen books, a collection that has given him more honors and awards than any other writer on the topics of leadership and change. In addition to Our Iceberg is Melting (2006) and Leading Change (1996), other works by Professor Kotter include of The Heart of Change (2002), John P. Kotter on What leaders Really Do (1999), Matsushita Leadership (1997), Corporate Culture and Performance (1992), A Force for Change (1990), The Leadership Factor (1998), and Power and Influence (1985)., His educational articles in the Harvard Business Review have sold a million and a half copies.
Professor Kotter's honors include an Exxon Award for Innovation in Graduate Business School Curriculum Design, and a Johnson, Smith & Knisely Award for New Perspectives in Business Leadership. In 1996, Professor Kotter's Leading Change was named the #1 management book of the year by Management General. In 1998, his Matsushita Leadership won first place in the Financial Times, Booz-Allen Global Business Book Competition for biography/autobiography.
Part of the Excellence in Management and Leadership Series. Originally broadcast September 20, 2000. |
