EDRD 4120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: John Kotter, Mathematical Analysis, Minimum Mass

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Environmental Design and Rural Development
• Course: EDRD 4120
• Professor: James Mahone

Document Summary

On leading change: a conversation with john kotter finnie & norris: Management is basically a set of processes for keeping a given system functioning well or keeping some activity under control. Leadership creates organizations or alters them in some fundamental way by challenging the status quo, creating a vision, communicating that vision widely, getting people to believe in it, and then empowering them to act. A leader should examine the way their organization tends to go about making change: then to figure out how to adopt a leading-change process, within the framework of a leadership process, there are potholes. Management-running the current system or keeping activities under control is essential. Create superior management by: delegating managerial responsibilities to lower levels in the organization, encouraging people to re-examine how to best accomplish those responsibilities, often using new information technologies. The important thing is that the leadership style has to fit the audience.