The dry academic tomes I wrote very early in my career were earnest reflections of the research I conducted, the analysis I applied and the conclusions I drew. And they had few readers, mostly other academics. I learned along the way and started including more and more stories in my work. John P. Kotter Read Quote
Every organization goes through a lifecycle where they eventually lose their initial speed or agility at a strategic level. John P. Kotter Read Quote
Managers are trained to make incremental, programmatic improvements. They aren’t trained to lead large-scale change. John P. Kotter Read Quote
I am always looking for stories that will shed light on how companies define themselves – for better or for worse. When shared with others, such stories can have an enormous impact on how well we move forward in the changing world around us. John P. Kotter Read Quote
If the culture you have is radically different from an ‘experiment and take-risk’ culture, then you have a big change you going to have to make – and no little gimmicks are going to do it for you. John P. Kotter Read Quote
More and more I’m finding that I’m reading history, I’m reading biography, I’m reading autobiography for a sense of people who’ve been able to provide leadership. I don’t read leadership books anymore. John P. Kotter Read Quote
Those in leadership positions who fail to grasp or use the power of stories risk failure for their companies and for themselves. John P. Kotter Read Quote
If you’re overbooked, you can’t manage pressing problems or even recognize they’re pressing until too late. John P. Kotter Read Quote
We are always creating new tools and techniques to help people, but the fundamental framework is remarkably resilient, which means it must have something to do with the nature of organizations or human nature. John P. Kotter Read Quote
