Silicon Valley Minute

Carreras, customers and communities suffer the consequences of a misguided enterprise, John Kotter gives us an opportunity to reflect on the power, influence, dependence, and strategies for change and to analyze the essence of leadership and reassess the relationship manager in the work of leaders. Kotter reminds us that the pressures experienced by organizations to implement a change will only increase over the coming decades, but the methodologies used by managers in an attempt to transform their companies into stronger competitors for example, total quality management, reengineering, fit to size, restructuring, cultural transformation and change of position, have fallen short, without exception, because they fail to alter their behavior fact that this growing demand for a new managerial leadership and to understand the importance, scope, implications that this generates, it is important to remember some of the valuable contributions in his work provides Kotter Jhon.

ake into account, which refers to leadership as developing a vision and strategies, getting people to support this strategy and in some individuals delegate power to make that vision a reality, despite the obstacles. Leadership is manifested through people and culture. It is soft and warm Management works through hierarchy and systems is harder and colder. It is therefore very important to be clear about the distinction between management and leadership, this is extremely important because that confuse management with leadership will manage the change, keeping thus controlled but not be able to provide what it takes to make big jump and difficult. In short: Management is to manage the complexity and Lead is to manage the change.