Summary Of The Heart Of Change

Introduction The Heart of Change by John P. Kotter and Dan S. Cohen main theme is change is the only constant, by focusing on change management through the behaviors of people in an 8 step process needed to make behavior changes in the organization for a successful outcome. This book gives many real life stories that influenced and motivated change in that particular organization. John M Ivancevich Organization Behavior and Management focus on behavior and management within work settings; both books correlate with one another by addressing how change is vital for any organization. “In order to make any transformation successful, you must change more than just the structure and operations of an organization, you need to change people’s behaviors”.

Kotter mentions four elements that help direct actions: budgets, plans, strategies, and visions. All four are very different yet are closely tied together, such as a budgets are the financial part of the plan, a plan is a process to implement the strategic goals, strategies are way to achieve the overall vision and vision is larger picture where are the plans and strategies will take you. Chapter 15 mentioned the importance of having leaders in an organization that can set forth goals and visions and inspire the team to get the job done for the purpose of the organizations success. One type of leaders is transformational leaders who motivate followers to work for goals instead of short term selfish ulterior motives, these leaders clarify a clear vison and aspire others to accomplish this vision. Having en effective leader that can set the vision and tone can achieve greatness through their

Keeping change constant is vital for the organization success. What works to make change stick by using new employee orientations to show the new recruits what the organization care about, putting people in influential and visible positions, retelling very vivid stories about the organization of how it succeeded, as well as making sure you having continued results and behaviors that helps the new culture grow. Ivancevich bring up many concepts throughout the textbook to make change stick, it starts off by building foundation within the organization such as culture, norms, polices etc., building teams, implementing ideas, motivating employee through rewards and incentives, understand the behaviors of individuals and demonstrating emotional intelligence and how they can contribute to the vison, mission and goals of the organization. I believe all these themes throughout the text can help in the longevity of an organization and how change and be effective and long term in the best way