Leading Change by John P. Kotter

The essential guide to leading organizational transformation.

Very Good Condition – Light shelf and edge wear to the dust jacket with minor corner wear; hardcover remains in very good overall condition.

Drawing on decades of research into companies large and small, Harvard's John P. Kotter argues that most change initiatives fail not from bad strategy but from poor execution and a failure to bring people along. Leading Change lays out his influential eight-step process — from establishing urgency and building a guiding coalition through to anchoring new behaviors in company culture — as a practical roadmap for anyone steering an organization through major transformation. Rather than offering theory alone, Kotter draws on real examples of companies that succeeded and stumbled, showing how leadership, not just management, determines whether change actually sticks. Since its publication, this book has become one of the most widely used change-management frameworks in the world, valued for its clear-eyed view of how hard lasting change really is — and how to achieve it anyway.