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Change Management

An annotated collection of 2 books on change management, spanning 1998 to 2014. Featuring works by Spencer Johnson, John P. Kotter — each with editorial commentary oriented to digital product practice.

Who Moved My Cheese?

Spencer Johnson, 1998 · G.P. Putnam's Sons

A short parable that became, for a decade, the default corporate response to change: four characters in a maze, cheese that moves, a lesson that "the quicker you let go of old cheese, the sooner you find new cheese." Hon…

Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World

John P. Kotter, 2014 · Harvard Business Review Press

Kotter's argument is that large organisations cannot both run reliable operations at scale and respond to rapid external change using a single hierarchical structure — the fix is a "dual operating system" of hierarchy al…