Enterprises and uncertainty – what to do
A manual teaching about change in uncertain times has now been published in Italy
Learning to change in order not to knuckle under, but also, more simply, so as to avoid being “overtaken” by others. A matter of competitiveness, meaning technical and managerial skills, and an awareness of how the world is changing, of others and the pressures these entail. A complex matter for sure, which nonetheless needs to be tackled. This is why reading Change. Come trasformare imprese e organizzazioni in tempi instabili (Change: How organizations achieve hard-to-imagine results in uncertain and volatile times) will prove useful, a book written by John P. Kotter, Vanessa Akhtar and Gaurav Gupta with the specific purpose of outlining a method to transform production organisations – not gradually but ”in leaps and bounds”, as well as effectively. The premise from which Kotter, Akhtar and Gupta’s work unravel is that uncertainty and the speed of change are such nowadays that there is no longer time to take it gradually.
The authors begin by illustrating the challenges that companies must face, such as a world that is rapidly evolving and can be comprehended only through a new change management process that is unlike any other adopted until now. Thus, the key word is “accelerate”, by carefully implementing a form of strategic planning that will not end up smothering corporate innovation, and as the authors explain, this also affects corporate culture, in need of radical alteration – but, they wonder, what is it exactly that makes all the difference? On the whole, the book presents us with just one answer: the creation of widespread leadership, shared by several people who are capable of working together and driving change in a more effective way than before.
Kotter, Akhtar and Gupta’s book should be read like a guide purposefully written for those who, day after day, deal with change – in all its different levels and gradations, as a pervasive phenomenon challenging managers, entrepreneurs, and anyone else involved in a production organisation.
Change. Come trasformare imprese e organizzazioni in tempi instabili (Change: How organizations achieve hard-to-imagine results in uncertain and volatile times)
John P. Kotter, Vanessa Akhtar, Gaurav Gupta
Franco Angeli, 2022


A manual teaching about change in uncertain times has now been published in Italy
Learning to change in order not to knuckle under, but also, more simply, so as to avoid being “overtaken” by others. A matter of competitiveness, meaning technical and managerial skills, and an awareness of how the world is changing, of others and the pressures these entail. A complex matter for sure, which nonetheless needs to be tackled. This is why reading Change. Come trasformare imprese e organizzazioni in tempi instabili (Change: How organizations achieve hard-to-imagine results in uncertain and volatile times) will prove useful, a book written by John P. Kotter, Vanessa Akhtar and Gaurav Gupta with the specific purpose of outlining a method to transform production organisations – not gradually but ”in leaps and bounds”, as well as effectively. The premise from which Kotter, Akhtar and Gupta’s work unravel is that uncertainty and the speed of change are such nowadays that there is no longer time to take it gradually.
The authors begin by illustrating the challenges that companies must face, such as a world that is rapidly evolving and can be comprehended only through a new change management process that is unlike any other adopted until now. Thus, the key word is “accelerate”, by carefully implementing a form of strategic planning that will not end up smothering corporate innovation, and as the authors explain, this also affects corporate culture, in need of radical alteration – but, they wonder, what is it exactly that makes all the difference? On the whole, the book presents us with just one answer: the creation of widespread leadership, shared by several people who are capable of working together and driving change in a more effective way than before.
Kotter, Akhtar and Gupta’s book should be read like a guide purposefully written for those who, day after day, deal with change – in all its different levels and gradations, as a pervasive phenomenon challenging managers, entrepreneurs, and anyone else involved in a production organisation.
Change. Come trasformare imprese e organizzazioni in tempi instabili (Change: How organizations achieve hard-to-imagine results in uncertain and volatile times)
John P. Kotter, Vanessa Akhtar, Gaurav Gupta
Franco Angeli, 2022