Higher Education Leadership

A professor at Harvard Business School, Kotter spent years coaching organizations - large and small; successful, less successful, and nearly bankrupt - through their own change processes. Some worked; others didn't. Distilling wisdom from these experiences, Kotter identifies eight common mistakes managers make implementing change. He then uses them to propose an eight-stage model that he argues can lead to successful organizational transformation.

This information-packed audiobook relays solid expertise you will need to become an effective meeting administrator. As with any topic, the basics do not just come to you; you must make a conscious effort to learn what you need to know to become more skillful. Knowing these basics of planning and managing meetings will "head off" problems before they occur. If you are presently involved in meeting planning or responsible for chairing meetings or see that in your future, this audiobook is for you!

Fail Faster, Succeed Sooner is a new way to embrace lessons from the journey of learning. Many believe that one hires someone for their expertise. This is not quite complete. One hires someone for their ability to have learned from their failure to ensure that when they come to fix your problem with their expertise, they fix your problem the right way, the first time. If one wants to succeed, one has to learn how to fail in order to succeed more quickly, faster.