Analysis Of J. P. Kotter's Leading And Managing Organizational Change

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According to the world-renowned former leader, Mahatma Gandhi had once described change as, “You must be the change you wish to see the world.” With the power of change, it begins within the leader before designing a goal for the organization that could lead to new beginnings either good or bad. In Chapter 5, Leading and Managing Organizational Change the readers were introduce to the idea of the powerful and alert leaders need to be to learn how to adapt to change within their organizations. While using Kotter’s Change Model, J.P Kotter’s book Leading Change (1996) breaks down the eight steps a leader must undergo when in the hoping to bring change withthin themselves. But also with Kotter’s idea of how change either good or bad can have …show more content…

For example, within my current personal leadership position I had to adapt the idea of change since the start of the school year. Beforehand, this time my freshman year I was giving this opportunity to run my club and the former president had mentioned to self that all of next year she was going to help me get organized before the school year end. Needless to say, she and I never met to cover my transformation of becoming the president for my upcoming junior school year. By this never happening, it had gave me major anxiety for the upcoming school year without having any idea what to do. When we had set our first official meeting in fall, I actually use the step 3 of Kotter’s Model of Organizational Change (without even realizing). The stage I felt that we had used was stage 3, the use of developing a vision and a strategy because I mentioned to both new and old members that even though we are lost as a group right now, we are turning the club around and change it to what we think how it should be run by working together...through the good and the

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