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During his career, John Kotter has written numerous bestselling books on topics such as leadership, corporate culture & the importance of urgency. Below is a selection of some of his most influential works that can help you or your organization cope with change.

Our Iceberg is Melting
	A simple fable with profound lessons for working and living in an ever changing world. On the surface, Our Iceberg Is Melting is a simple story of a colony of penguins facing a dilemma. But contained within the story and the characters is a powerful message about t... Choose your favorite retailer and order now! Amazon \| Barnes&Noble \| 800CEORead \| Downloadable PDF \| International Editions

Buy-In
	So, you believe in a good idea. You're convinced it is needed badly, and needed now. But, you can't make it happen on your own. You need support in order to implement it and make things better. You or your allies present the plan. You present it well. Then, along wi... Choose your favorite retailer and order now! Amazon \| Barnes&Noble \| 800CEORead

Leading Change
	Dr. Kotter offers a practical approach to an organized means of leading, not managing, change. He presents an eight-stage process of change with highly useful examples that show how to go about implementing it. Based on experience with numerous companies, his sou... Choose your favorite retailer and order now! Amazon \| Barnes&Noble \| 800CEORead \| International Editions

A Sense of Urgency
	A Sense of Urgency is a powerful tool for anyone wanting to win in a turbulent world that will only continue to move faster. Management control systems and damage control experts serve a critical purpose. But don't let that blind you to an increasingly important ... Choose your favorite retailer and order now! Amazon \| Barnes&Noble \| 800CEORead \| International Editions

Managing Your Boss
	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... Choose your favorite retailer and order now! Amazon \| Barnes&Noble \| 800CEORead

The Heart of Change
	In the Heart of change, the authors practice what they preach, they have culled, from hundreds of interviews conducted by Deloitte Consulting, the 34 most instructive and vivid accounts of companies undergoing large-scale change. With chapters organized by each o... Choose your favorite retailer and order now! Amazon \| Barnes&Noble \| 800CEORead \| International Editions

What Leaders Really Do
	In his book What Leaders Really Do, Dr. Kotter outlines that most corporations today are overmanaged and underled. They need to develop their capacity to exercise leadership. Successful corporations don't wait for ... Choose your favorite retailer and order now! Amazon \| Barnes&Noble

A Force For Change
	In Force For Change, Dr. Kotter, who focused on why we have a leadership crisis in The Leadership Factor shows here, with compelling evidence, what leadership really means today, why it is rarely associated with larger-than-life charismatics, precisely how it is ... Choose your favorite retailer and order now! Amazon \| Barnes&Noble

The Leadership Factor
	In The Leadership factor, Dr. Kotter discusses the need for leadership at all levels of management and describes the kind required for the United States to remain competitive. He explains how business is changing and the impact of these changes on leadership, mak... Choose your favorite retailer and order now! Amazon \| Barnes&Noble

Power and Influence
	In Power and Influence, Dr. Kotter talks about how to bridge the "power gap": how to exercise the power and influence you need to get things done through others when your responsibilities exceed your formal authority. Full of original ideas and expert insights ab... Choose your favorite retailer and order now! Amazon \| Barnes&Noble \| 800CEORead

The General Managers
	In The General Managers, Dr. Kotter 5 the popular management notion of the effective "generalist" manager who can step into any business or division and run it. Based on his first-hand observations of fifteen top GMs from nine major companies, Kotter persuasively... Choose your favorite retailer and order now! Amazon \| Barnes&Noble \| 800CEORead

The New Rules
	In The New Rules, Dr. Kotter prescribes how to win success at work that were formulated after tracking the careers of 115 Harvard Business School graduates for the last 20 years. In those two decades, Kotter detected a significant shift in what is required to suc... Choose your favorite retailer and order now! Amazon \| Barnes&Noble \| 800CEORead

Corporate Culture and Performance
	In Corporate Culture and Performance, Dr. Kotter discusses the role that culture (broadly defined as the shared attitudes, behavioral patterns, and values that cohesive human groups pass on from one generation to the next) can play in the capacity of major corpor... Choose your favorite retailer and order now! Amazon \| Barnes&Noble \| 800CEORead

Matsushita Leadership
	Winner of the Financial Times Book Award, Dr. Kotter recounts the fascinating life of Konosuke Matsushita (1894-1989), the founder of Matsushita Electric Company. Matsushita started his adult life with no money, no connections, fewer than four years of formal edu... Choose your favorite retailer and order now! Amazon \| Barnes&Noble \| 800CEORead