Career
Kotter is the author of 18 books, and his books are in the top 1% of sales from Amazon.com. His international bestseller Leading Change, outlined an actionable, 8-step process for implementing successful transformations. Our Iceberg Is Melting, puts the 8-step process within an allegory. In October 2001, Business Week magazine rated Kotter the #1 "leadership guru" in America based on a survey they conducted of 504 enterprises. In 1996, "Leading Change" was named the #1 management book of the year by Management General. In 1998, his Matsushita Leadership won first place in the Financial Times, Booz-Allen Global Business Book Competition for biography/autobiography.
In addition to Our Iceberg is Melting (2006) and Leading Change (1996), Professor Kotter is the author of The Heart of Change (2002), John P. Kotter on What leaders Really Do (1999), Matsushita Leadership (1997) (which won first place in the Financial Times, Booz-Allen Global Business Book Competition for biography/autobiography, Corporate Culture and Performance (1992), A Force for Change (1990), The Leadership Factor (1988), Power and Influence (1985), The General Managers (1982), and five other books published in the 1970s. He has created two executive videos; one on "Leadership" (1981), and one on "Corporate Culture" (1993), and an educational CD-ROM (1998) based on the Leading Change book. His books have been printed in over seventy foreign language editions, and total sales exceed two million copies.
His educational articles in the Harvard Business Review have sold a million and a half copies, more than any of the hundreds of distinguished authors in the last 20 years.
His newest work released October 2012, is Accelerate, published by the Harvard Business Review. This work is also provided as the basis for helping Kotter International, a company led by Professor Kotter, to execute the implementation of corporate strategies with speed and focus.
Today, Professor Kotter is Chief Innovation Officer at Kotter International, an organization which helps companies and large organizations that are ready to implement a new strategy, succeed in getting the acceleration and direction needed to make lasting, large-scale change.
He has received an Exxon Award for Innovation in Graduate Business School Curriculum Design, and a Johnson, Smith & Knisely Award for New Perspectives in Business Leadership.
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