What will it take to bring your organization successfully into the twenty-first century? The world's foremost expert on business leadership distills twenty-fiveyears of experience and wisdom based on lessons he haslearned 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. The pressures on organizations to change will only increase over the next decades. Yet the methods managers have used in the attempt totransform their companies into stronger competitors -- total quality management, reengineering, rightsizing, restructuring, cultural change, and turnarounds -- routinely fall short, says Kotter, because they fail to alter behavior. Emphasizing again and again the critical need for leadership to make change happen, Leading Change provides the vicarious experience and positive role models for leaders to emulate. The book identifies an eight-step process that every company must go through to acheive its goal, and shows where and how people -- good people -- often derail. Reading this highly personalbook is like spending a day with John Kotter. It reveals what he has seen, heard, experienced, and concluded in many years of working with companies to create lasting transformation. The book is an inspirational yet practical resource for everyone who has a stake in orchestrating changes in their organization. In Leading Change we have unprecedented access to our generation's master of leadership.


约翰 P. 科特（John P. Kotter）

举世闻名的领导力专家，世界顶级企业领导与变革领域最权威的代言人。他的核心思想是领导与变革。曾服务过的客户包括高级微型设备公司（AMD）、美国运通（American Express）、ARCO、雅芳（Avon）、通用电气（General Electric）、IBM、摩托罗拉（Motorola）、壳牌石油（Shell Oil）、索尼（Sony）等。科特1947年出生于美国圣迭哥，早年先后就读于麻省理工学院及哈佛大学，1972年开始执教于哈佛商学院，1980年，年仅33岁的科特成为哈佛商学院的终身教授，他和“竞争战略之父”迈克尔•波特是哈佛历史上获此项殊荣的最年轻得主。

科特已经出版了18种书籍，其中12种都在畅销书榜中名列前茅。他的书籍和文章被翻译成超过150种外文版本。