John Kotter Quotes

5 Inspiring Change Leadership Quotes from Dr. John Kotter. ✓ Authorities on change leadership & management ✓ Do you have the chops to be a change leader?

5 Inspiring Change Leadership Quotes from Dr. John Kotter

1. A great change leader creates other change leaders.

2. Leadership is all about the Softer Stuff.

3. There is no business that I’ve found yet that from the right direction that you can’t see something that people can get excited about.

4. There is a rare person that I’ve met who is playing a leadership role and helping his or her company make big strategic adjustments to deal with an increasingly turbulent world in which the organizations are always ready; they’re just not.

5. Make the leap of faith that it is possible to deal with this, that I can be a better change leader than I have in the past and get on with it.

One of the greatest active authorities on change leadership and management is Dr. John Kotter, Head of Research at Kotter International and the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership, Emeritus at Harvard Business School, and we were thrilled to have him on the program back in February.

He spoke of great leaders throughout history and their ability to rally the troops and organize change where it was needed. Listening to him was often inspiring. We had to share just five of his finest quotes from his hour-long conversation with our host on “Do you have the chops to be a change leader?”

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