John Kotter on Corporate Management

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The paper discusses the beliefs of Confucius, Machiavelli and Jean-Jacques Rousseau and shows how they are reflected in John Kotter's works on leadership. The paper relates that while some consider Kotter to be a great thinker, his books are simply summarizing concepts which have been adapted from past theorists and have been in place in the organizational marketplace for centuries. The paper opines that perhaps it is of value for Kotter to step forward and state the obvious on leadership.

From the Paper:

"John Kotter has written several self-help books on corporate management. The most recent, Leading Change, outlines an 8-step process to effect transformations successfully, and has become a bible for change with managers. The October 2001 issue of Business Week magazine said Kotter was the #1 "leadership guru" in the United States, based on their survey of 504 enterprises (Kotter, 2007, 1). His book Power and Influence is written for leaders, as well, encouraging the lower-level employee to become an "unofficial" power within their organization through influencing others. Naivete and cynicism have no place in the lives of powerful people and his outline for getting rid of internal strife which can destroy corporations as well as the careers of its personnel involves becoming personally effective in one's own realm and influencing others with positive goals by recognizing that diversity allows various talents to thrive and that interdependence allows for power over others while remaining dependent (Kotter, 1985)."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Kotter, John. Biography. Harvard Business School, 2007. Website: <http://drfd.hbs.edu/fit/public/facultyInfo.do?facInfo=bio&facEmId=jkotter&loc=extn>.
• Kotter, John. Leading Change. Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business School Press, 1996.
• Kotter, John. Power and Influence. New York: Simon & Schuster Free Press.1985.

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