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That’s Not How We Do It Here!
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That’s Not How We Do It Here!

A Story About How Organizations Rise and Fall – and Can Rise Again

Portfolio, 2016 更多详情


Editorial Rating

7

Qualities

  • Applicable

Recommendation

John Kotter and co-author Holger Rathgeber – who also collaborated on the bestseller Our Iceberg Is Melting – masterfully employ a fable in this charming little book. As they did with the penguins in Iceberg, the authors base their story around a group of meerkats – small, furry, cute carnivores living in Africa. The fable shows why organizations should employ a “dual system” of management and leadership to inspire and energize employees and meet new challenges. getAbstract recommends this engaging tale to entrepreneurs and managers dealing with change.

Take-Aways

  • If a large organization’s environment remains stable and constant, management is probably sufficient. Leadership matters less.
  • Management and leadership are not the same. Management concerns planning, problem solving and execution. Leadership concerns vision, inspiration and motivation.
  • However, today’s environment of unsettling change makes new demands on organizations.

About the Authors

John Kotter is a Harvard Business School leadership professor emeritus. Holger Rathgeber is a former executive with a global medical products corporation and a principal at Kotter International. Together they wrote Our Iceberg Is Melting. Kotter also wrote Leading Change, Accelerate, A Sense of Urgency and, with Dan S. Cohen, The Heart of Change.


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