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Force For Change: How Leadership Differs from Management
by John P. Kotter
from Free Press

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Fast and easy read
  This book may be small but it packs quite a punch in that it is able to define change management terms with easy to understand examples. I came away with a much better understanding of change management after reading this book. Recommended for the person looking to improve and for college courses.

• Important Subject, Good Book
  My advice is to purchase John Kotter's article that this book came out of from the Harvard Business Review. It's title is "What Leaders Really Do: How Leadership Differs From Management". The article covers the subject well enough and I do highly recommend it!! Very Important.

• Unique perspective on leadership
  I purchased this book for research as part of a recent MBA class paper and I was not disappointed. Kotter stands alone in defining the differences between "management" and "leadership". All of the other works that I reviewed (Bennis, "On Becoming a Leader; Bennis and Nanus, "Leaders"; Fiedler, and Follett)use the terms interchangably.

  Of equal importance were the specific differences that he cited along with the examination of whether or not leaders were made or born. This is not the classical trait... more info

• Rather unhelpful
  This book contains John Kotter's usual dose of platitudes and blindingly obvious insights. Anyone that gets anything useful out of this book is far too dumb to lead anything at all, except perhaps a hollow and meaningless life.

  How he has gotten the world to swallow this nonsense book after book, each one a rehash of his previous mishmash of meaningless business speak ("energizing your employees") and vague, unfollowable axioms about, for example, "having vision," is beyond me. But perhaps I just haven't... more info

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