ABSTRACT
John Kotter's secondary ideas include: the differences between leadership and management; characteristics of the organization of the future; and characteristics of lifelong learners. Kotter differentiates between management and leadership, and believes managers must adopt the characteristics of leaders to change and transform their firms successfully. Kotter does not dismiss management skills entirely, and argues that effective management is required for the important tasks of planning, budgeting, organizing, staffing, and problem solving. The core ideas of Leading Change are easy to digest and therefore little has been overlooked. It is true that Kotter's discussion of globalization in Leading Change has declined in importance. When he wrote the book in the 1990s, the prospect of widespread global markets was relatively new; in the twenty-first century it is commonplace. It is therefore unlikely that an executive today would use Kotter's book to highlight the many challenges created by global markets.
