This book is the product of a research program in managerial/executive behavior which began with my doctoral dissertaion on big city mayors.Other parts of that program have focused on the major contextual factors that shape the way in which managers act,executive careers,both the organizational and the power and influence sapects of managerial work ,the history and behavior of a group of successful general managers, and corporate efforts to create a leadership capacity in their management hierarchies.

JOHN P.KOTTER

JOHN P.KOTTER is Professor

of Organizational Behavior at the

Harvard Business School.He has

won Mckinscy Awards for two

Harvard Business Review articles

and has received the 1985

Hohnson.Smith and Knisely Award

for new perspectives on evecutive

leadership. Professor Kotter has

achieved international recognition

as an expert on leadership in

business with his works. The

General Managers.Power and

Influence.and The Leadership

Factor.which have been translated

into six languages.