Reading About Change Management

Change Management does not sound like an interesting topic to me. And I would be surprised if you are excited about it too, but it is a necessary part of any organisation. So recently I started reading John Kotter's book (thanks to Susi for purchasing it), Leading Change. So far I have not been disappointed. I've known about Kotter for some time as his name is often thrown around business publications but he sounded more like a theoretical academic to me. Reading his book has kind of changed my views about him as his writing is quite pragmatic, practical and not really heavy on the technical side of things.

So what are my initial thoughts about the book?

For me it's more of who should read it instead of my initial thoughts about it. To start with I think leadership teams operating at the C level should read it, and also have a good open discussion about how they can integrate some of its lessons into their organisations.
I also think managers at the mid-level should read it too. Learning and development practitioners should definitely it read since most of what they do is about supporting change. I do think the material in the book could be used to design a good training course, instead of spending money on some ridiculously expensive course.

That's a challenge for me, perhaps.