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Leading Change

An Action Plan from The World's Foremost Expert on Business Leadership

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Leading Change

By: John Kotter
Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
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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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Critic reviews

<p>“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.” —<i>AudioFile, Earphones Award Winner</i><br><br>“An outstanding book that addresses the needs of organizations and inviduals in today's rapidly changing business environment.” —<i>Ernest I. Glickman, CEO, Harbridge House, Division of Coopers & Lybrand L.L.P.</i><br><br>“Very interesting and relevant, full of practical advice of immediate use.” —<i>Richard Deverell, Head of Strategy and Planning, BBC news</i></p>
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Excellent book, for beginners and beyond!
Fascinatingly accurate assessment and lessons from all aspects of change, especially in large scale organisations.

Wish I'd read this 10 years ago!

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overall interesting but nothing I hadn't already heard before and the narration became samey after a while

interesting but old ground

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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.

Disappointing and rather repetitive

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I really enjoyed the short chapter, the lack of waffle and conversational style of the audio. It’s easy to listen to with a wealth of information clearly communicated in an order that makes sense and flows naturally.

Great timeless wisdom

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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.

Sound principles

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