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- 06 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
John Kotter: Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea
from Buy-IN: Saving Your Good Idea from Getting Shot Down By John P. Kotter and Lorne A. Whitehead Fear Mongering This kind of attack strategy is... View Details
Keywords: by John Kotter & Lorne A. Whitehead
- 08 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: A Sense of Urgency
an open-minded and approachable person in a more powerful position who can take the lead. Certainly we need to be prudent. But in a more rapidly changing world, finding opportunities in crises probably reduces your overall risk. To Learn More: Watch a video of View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter
- 1999
- Book
John Kotter on What Leaders Really Do
By: J. P. Kotter
Keywords: Leadership
Kotter, J. P. John Kotter on What Leaders Really Do. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1999.
- 29 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Get Off the Dime!
Using real-life stories, John Kotter and Dan Cohen have identified eight steps toward making large-scale change in organizations. The first step: Create a sense of urgency among the relevant people.In... View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter & Dan S. Cohen
- 10 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
John Kotter’s Plan to Accelerate Your Business
To succeed in today's fast-moving economy, traditional corporate structures are holding back companies, even great companies, from being creative enough and speedy enough to compete effectively. What's needed, argues Harvard Business School Professor View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 19 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Affordable Housing: Israel and the United States
besieged with global discord that threatens regional peace, faces the same domestic headlines. In 2011, when young Israelis—and extending eventually to not-so-young Israelis, fueled by Facebook—mounted a "cottage cheese... View Details
- September 1989 (Revised October 1994)
- Case
Sir John Harvey-Jones
By: John P. Kotter
Kotter, John P. "Sir John Harvey-Jones." Harvard Business School Case 490-013, September 1989. (Revised October 1994.)
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
professor and Dean of the Faculty, provided a brief outline of the landscape as well as thoughts on how to view the proposed bailout. Lecturer Nicolas P. Retsinas, Director of Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies, then... View Details
- 27 Oct 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Prosocial Spending and Well-Being: Cross-Cultural Evidence for a Psychological Universal
- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
survey by the Charities Aid Foundation of America. A staggering 97 percent of respondents expect their funding to decline during the next 12 months as the struggling economy and social distancing hurts fundraising efforts. What can... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 01 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century
Leading in the 21st Century is an HBS Executive Education program being held in January 2000. Professors Gary Hamel and John Kotter talk about the course and the new realities of leadership and competitive... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 2014
- Book
Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World
By: John P. Kotter
Based on the award-winning article in Harvard Business Review, from global leadership expert John Kotter. It's a familiar scene in organizations today: a new competitive threat or a big opportunity emerges. You quickly create a strategic initiative in response and... View Details
Kotter, John P. Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World. Harvard Business Review Press, 2014.
- 03 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Ominous Background Music Is Bad for Sharks
sharks can affect efforts to save them. “Negative public opinion and fear of sharks continues to hinder conservation efforts,” says Elizabeth Keenan, an assistant professor in the Marketing unit of Harvard Business School, and a co-author of the study along with Andrew... View Details
- 29 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 29, 2008
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=508069 PublicationsManaging Your Boss Authors:John J. Gabarro and John P. Kotter Publication:HBR Classics.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 2008
- Book
Managing Your Boss
By: John J. Gabarro and John P. Kotter
Managing your boss: Isn't that merely manipulation? Corporate cozying up? Not according to John Gabarro and John Kotter. In this handy guidebook, the authors contend that you manage your boss for a very good reason: to do your best on the job—and thereby benefit not... View Details
Keywords: Communication; Decision Making; Information Management; Managerial Roles; Negotiation Tactics; Performance Productivity; Personal Development and Career; Relationships; Personal Characteristics
Gabarro, John J., and John P. Kotter. Managing Your Boss. Paperback ed. Harvard Business Review Classics. Harvard Business School Press, 2008.
- 02 Apr 2024
- What Do You Think?
What's Enough to Make Us Happy?
ambitious but not always assured. “Career planning provides an opportunity to think about 'enough,' especially in a given timeframe." Our late colleague at Harvard Business School, Clayton Christensen, provided inspiration for this kind of thinking View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Oct 2023
- What Do You Think?
Do Leaders Learn More From Success or Failure?
do you think? Share your thoughts in the comments below. References: Amy Edmondson, Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well (Atria Books, 2023) Amy C. Edmondson, “Psychological Safety and Learning Behavior in Work Teams,” Administrative Science Quarterly 44,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 2010
- Book
Buy-In: Saving Your Good Idea from Getting Shot Down
By: John P. Kotter and Lorne A. Whitehead
You've got a good idea. You know it could make a crucial difference for you, your organization, your community. You present it to the group but get confounding questions, inane comments, and verbal bullets in return. Before you know what's happened, your idea is dead,... View Details
Keywords: Communication Intention and Meaning; Cost vs Benefits; Problems and Challenges; Interests; Value
Kotter, John P., and Lorne A. Whitehead. Buy-In: Saving Your Good Idea from Getting Shot Down. Harvard Business Review Press, 2010.
- Research Summary
Competitive Dynamics of the Textile-Apparel-Retail Channel
Janice H. Hammond established in 1991 (with Frederick H. Abernathy and John Dunlop of Harvard University and David Weil of Boston University) the Harvard Center for Textile and Apparel Research. Funding provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has supported the... View Details
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Sam Walton: Great From the Start
store business in a serious way. He bought the lease to prevent his "friendly" rival John Dunham from acquiring the property and expanding his Sterling Store. Newport already had a couple of department stores. One of these was... View Details