Written in Kotter's signature no-nonsense style, this concise and authoritative guide helps you set the stage for leading a successful transformation in your company.

Examines the efforts of more than 100 companies to remake themselves into better competitors. This book identifies the common mistakes leaders and managers make in attempting to create change and offers a step-by-step process to overcome the obstacles and carry out the firm's agenda.

Managing your boss: Isn't that merely manipulation? Corporate cozying up? Not according to John Gabarro and John Kotter. This guidebook contends 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.

An assessment of the real work of leaders. This work helps us better understand what leaders-real leaders-do. It helps readers learn become more effective leaders as they explore pressing issues such as power, influence, dependence, and strategies for change.

Shows how the best change leaders use not just reports or analysis, but gloves, video cameras, airplanes, office design, and other concrete elements to impel people toward positive action. This book reveals how this appeal to the heart-over the mind - motivates people to overcome even daunting obstacles to change and produce results.

A member of the AWL OD Series! This book offers managers and OD specialists a powerful way of diagnosing organizational problems and of deciding when, where, and how to use (or not use) the diverse and growing number of organizational improvement tools that are available today. Comprehensive and fully integrated, the book includes many different concepts, research findings, and competing ...