John Kotter
| John Paul Kotter | |
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| Born |
February 25, 1947 San Diego, California, U.S |
| Alma mater |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harvard Business School |
| Occupation | author, educator, management consultant, scholar |
Dr. John Paul Kotter is the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership, Emeritus, at the Harvard Business School, a New York Times best-selling author, the founder of Kotter International (a management consulting firm based in Seattle and Boston), and a well-known thought leader in the fields of business, leadership, and change.
Kotter graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering in 1968 and a Master of Science in Management in 1970. Kotter then completed his Doctor of Business Administration in 1972 at Harvard Business School. Kotter is an alumnus of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity.
In 1972, the same year he completed his doctorate, Kotter joined the Harvard Business School faculty. He received tenure and a full professorship in 1981. He was later named the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership. Kotter retired as a full-time faculty member from Harvard in 2001.
In 2008, he co-founded Kotter International with two others, where he currently serves as Chairman. The business consultancy firm applies Kotter's research on leadership, strategy execution, transformation, and any form of large-scale change.
Since early in his career, Kotter has received numerous awards for his thought leadership in his field from Harvard Business Review, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Thinkers50, Global Gurus and others.
Kotter is the author of 20 books, 12 of which have been business bestsellers and two of which are overall New York Times bestsellers.
His international bestseller Leading Change (1996), "is considered by many to be the seminal work in the field of change management." William C. Finnie, Editor-in-Chief of Strategy & Leadership described it as "simply the best single work I have seen on strategy implementation". The book outlines a practical 8-step process for change management :
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