Attributing modern economic problems to the oil crisis of 1973, a study based on twenty years of research urges readers to seek opportunities on the global market and in small business. 75,000 first printing. $75,000 ad/promo.

The New Rules: How to Succeed in Today's Post-Corporate World

Business & Money

John P. Kotter

Business Culture

Free Press

Our Iceberg is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions [Paperback] [Jan 01, 2006] JHON KOTTER

Management & Leadership

Macmillan (IBD)

Our Iceberg Is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions

Holger Rathgeber

Portfolio

From the table of contents:IntroductionCurrent conceptions of the mayorA new frameworkAgenda settingNetwork building and maintenanceAccomplishing tasksPatterns of behavior: the identification of five types of mayorPattern dynamics: constructing a model of mayoral behaviorAtlanta: a case study in mayoral behaviorSuccessful and unsuccessful coalignment behaviorPattern emergencePattern impact: rating the mayor's performanceImplications for social scientists: a coalignment model of administrationImplications for mayorsThe future: some disturbing trends.

Mayors in Action: Five Approaches to Urban Governance

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

John Wiley&Sons, Inc.

Leading Change

What will it take to bring your organization successfully into the twenty-first century? The world`s foremost expert on business leadership distills twenty-five years of experience and wisdom based on lessons he has learned from scores of organizations and businesses to write this visionary guide. The result is a very personal book that is at once inspiring, clear-headed, and filled with important implications for the future.

Harvard Business School Press

Business Fundamentals As Taught At the Harvard Businss School: Leadership for New Managers

John J. Gabarro

Linda A. Hill

Harvard Businss School Publishing

Going far beyond previous empirical work, John Kotter and James Heskett provide the first comprehensive critical analysis of how the "culture" of a corporation powerfully influences its economic performance, for better or for worse. Through painstaking research at such firms as Hewlett-Packard, Xerox, ICI, Nissan, and First Chicago, as well as a quantitative study of the relationship between culture and performance in more than 200 companies, the authors describe how shared values and unwritten rules can profoundly enhance economic success or, conversely, lead to failure to adapt to changing markets and environments. With penetrating insight, Kotter and Heskett trace the roots of both healthy and unhealthy cultures, demonstrating how easily the latter emerge, especially in firms which have experienced much past success. Challenging the widely held belief that "strong" corporate cultures create excellent business performance, Kotter and Heskett show that while many shared values and institutionalized practices can promote good performances in some instances, those cultures can also be characterized by arrogance, inward focus, and bureaucracy - features that undermine an organization's ability to adapt to change. They also show that even "contextually or strategically appropriate" cultures - ones that fit a firm's strategy and business context - will not promote excellent performance over long periods of time unless they facilitate the adoption of strategies and practices that continuously respond to changing markets and new competitive environments. Fundamental to the process of reversing unhealthy cultures and making them more adaptive, the authors assert, is effective leadership. At the heart of this groundbreaking book, Kotter and Heskett describe how executives in ten corporations established new visions, aligned and motivated their managers to provide leadership to serve their customers

Corporate Culture and Performance

James L. Heskett

Biography & History

True urgency is a gut-level determination to move and win, now.
It’s practitioners are unusually alert. They come to work each day determined to achieve something important, and they shed irrelevant activities to move faster and smarter. Those with a sense of urgency are the opposite of complacent—but they are not stressed-out and anxious, generating great activity without much productivity. Instead, they move boldly toward the future—sharply on the lookout for the hazards and the opportunities that change brings.
Bestselling author and business guru John Kotter knows about urgency. “Raising urgency” is the first step in his enormously successful eight-step framework, first articulated in Leading Change. But as Kotter illustrates, increasing urgency is the toughest of the eight steps, and the one without which even the most brilliant, high-powered initiatives will sputter and die. More importantly, as we transition to a world where change is continuous—not just episodic—he shows how urgency must become a core, sustained capability.
With vivid and powerful stories, Kotter reveals a distinctive view of the kind of urgency needed in every organization. He also highlights the insidious nature of its nemesis, complacency, in all its guises. He explains the crucial difference between constructive true urgency, and the frantic wheel spinning that is so often mistaken for urgency. He provides key tactics for increasing urgency, as well as exposing and rooting out complacency, with chapters on:
 •Bringing the outside in •Behaving with urgency every day •Finding opportunity in crises •Dealing with “NoNos” or naysayers
A Sense of Urgency is a powerful tool for anyone wanting to win in a turbulent world that will only continue to move faster.

Sense of Urgency, A

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"This charming story about a penguin colony in Antarctica illustrates key truths about how we deal with the issue of change: handle the challenge well and you can prosper greatly; handle it poorly and you put yourself at risk. The penguins are living happily on their iceberg as they have done for many years. Then one curious penguin discovers a potentially devastating problem threatening their home - and pretty much no one listens to him.\nThe characters in this fable are like people we recognize, even ourselves. Their story is one of resistance to change and heroic action, confusion and insight, seemingly intractable obstacles and the most clever tactics for dealing with those obstacles. It is a story that is occuring in different forms around us today - but the penguins handle change a great deal better than most of us.\nBased on John Kotter's pioneering work on how to make smart change happen faster and better, the lessons you can learn from this short and easy-to-read book will serve you well in your job, in your family and in your community. And these lessons are becoming ever more important as the world around us changes faster and faster. This edition will celebrate 10 years since the publication of this classic business fable with new and improved illustrations."

Our Iceberg is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions

Pan/Macmillan

Successful Organizational Change: The Kotter-Cohen Collection (2 Books)

Dan S. Cohen

Harvard Business Review Press

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