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Kotter

An annotated collection of 2 books & articles on kotter, spanning 1990 to 2014. Featuring works by John P. Kotter — each with editorial commentary oriented to digital product practice.

What Leaders Really Do

John P. Kotter, 1990 · Harvard Business Review, May–June 1990

Kotter's short HBR piece making a clean distinction between management (coping with complexity: planning, organising, controlling) and leadership (coping with change: setting direction, aligning people, motivating). The…

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…