Leading Change
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Narrated by:
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Oliver Wyman
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By:
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John P. Kotter
About this listen
John Kotter, the world's foremost expert on business leadership, distills twenty-five years of experience into Leading Change. A must-have for any organization, this visionary and very personal audiobook is at once inspiring, clear-headed, and filled with important implications for the future.
The pressures on organizations to change will only increase over the next decades. Yet the methods managers have used to strengthen their companies—total quality management, reengineering, right sizing, restructuring, cultural change, and turnarounds—routinely fall short. In Leading Change, Kotter identifies an eight-step process that every company must go through to achieve its goal, and shows where and how people—good people—often derail. Emphasizing again and again the critical need for leadership to make change happen, Leading Change provides unprecedented access to our generation's business master and a positive role model for leaders to emulate.
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“Oliver Wyman's ingenuous delivery style works perfectly for one of the best business-strategy audios of the year.... his connection with the material is seamless. Along with having one of the most appealing voices in this genre, he's adept at segmenting complex sentences into digestible phrases.” —AudioFile, Earphones Award Winner
“An outstanding book that addresses the needs of organizations and inviduals in today's rapidly changing business environment.” —Ernest I. Glickman, CEO, Harbridge House, Division of Coopers & Lybrand L.L.P.
“Very interesting and relevant, full of practical advice of immediate use.” —Richard Deverell, Head of Strategy and Planning, BBC news
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- H
- 22-03-24
Useful content but quite dry
Useful content but quite dry and boring. Way too many words given the subject they want to convey.
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- BB
- 02-04-14
Disappointing and rather repetitive
What did you like best about Leading Change? What did you like least?
Some good ideas like the structured approach. Some titles a little confusing until they are explained. For example; developing a sense of urgency for something that is going to take 2 years is not what I call urgent. This actually is about linking the consequences of change to pay and rations or other things that will make people take notice and keep focus.
It did get a bit boring and repetitive. This is often the norm for business books. Good idea repeated endless times.
How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?
Shorten it.
What three words best describe Oliver Wyman’s voice?
Even toned and OK to listen to
Do you think Leading Change needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?
No. You flogged the subject enough already.
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- Amazon Customer
- 26-02-17
Excellent audio version
The narrator had me engaged from the start. A very good book with lots to reflect on.
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- andrew wallace
- 09-03-21
interesting but old ground
overall interesting but nothing I hadn't already heard before and the narration became samey after a while
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- Stephen S
- 13-04-13
Classic Management Text - Must Read
This has got to be one of the "must reads" of management books. If you've ever tried to convince a group of people (in any setting or organization) to change the way they are doing something, if you've ever tried to introduce a new process, new tool or new way of working to your workplace, or if you've ever been in a situation where your team or company was in denial about loosing against the competition, this book is for you. Kotter in this book outlines an 8 stage process for effecting change. At each stage, he explains why, if you miss this particular stage, your change effort is at risk. I've worked in several high tech companies for the past 25+ years, and even today I can see people trying to introduce change and missing the fundamental lessons of this book - and wonder why their change effort flounders. So save yourself some stress, if you are trying to change something at work, in your club or voluntary organization, read this book and apply the lessons!
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- Mr. R. D. Cox
- 03-08-13
How to create change in organisations
Would you consider the audio edition of Leading Change to be better than the print version?
For any cynics - all your critisism of leaders who fail - are justified in this book - which is the how to for change that the big egos never read
Essential for anyone - who is committed to create lasting cultural change in an organisation
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- Paul Campbell
- 10-12-15
Wish I'd read this 10 years ago!
Excellent book, for beginners and beyond!
Fascinatingly accurate assessment and lessons from all aspects of change, especially in large scale organisations.
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- Amazon Customer
- 25-05-23
Sound principles
Although there wasn’t much groundbreaking information in here, I personally found many of the techniques new and interesting with real application in my organisation.
Worth a listen if you are interested in the practical application of leadership in the change environment.
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- jc
- 21-11-17
Strong content
There’s much in this book to learn from and will likely get another listen. The voice is not as bad as some have said, I found it a bit goofy like but not distracting.
End of chapter summary points are useful.
Would I recommend, yes.
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- Julia
- 12-07-19
Not well written but with a meaningful content
It was genuinely hard to digest this book and at times I wondered if I should stop listening. It’s not that the content is not meaningful and there are a couple of lovely examples in there but it just drags on and on. If the same content was covered in half the volume - i would have given it a much higher rating. Perhaps the voice of the reader as well that contributes to the overall muted opinion. It takes about passionate leadership but this is not reflected in how the book is read.
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