John Coulter's management thought of "leadership and change" has brought him great reputation. He won the "Johnson, Simth &; Knies Prize).

2. Main management ideas

1) The difference between management and leadership

Make a plan vs determine the direction; ? Staffing and joint staff; Control and solve problems and motivate employees.

Kurt famously said, "75% ~ 80% of the way to success depends on leadership, and the other 20% ~ 25% depends on management, not the other way around." This sentence illustrates the dialectical relationship between leadership and management: leadership and management are two different but complementary behavior systems; In the increasingly complex and changeable business society, both of them are indispensable and necessary conditions for success. Kurt enumerated the different roles of leadership and management one by one, and reached an incisive conclusion: leadership is not necessarily superior to management, nor can it necessarily replace management; To succeed, the real challenge is to combine strong leadership and management skills and make them check and balance each other.

John Kurt believes that management is based on science and emphasizes control and order; Leadership is based on art and pays attention to foresight and change. Management is the knowledge of "managing things" and leadership is the knowledge of "unifying people". Management is full of rationality, and leadership depends on emotion. It is this dichotomy that makes John Kurt surpass other management scholars.

2) Eight-step model of successful change

Establish a sense of urgency, form a leadership team, design a vision strategy, communicate the vision of change, be good at empowering, accumulate short-term victories, promote the deepening of change, and integrate the results into culture.

The eight-step model, with strong operability, has become a guide for managers all over the world to change.

3. The position of management science

John Kurt was named one of the "50 most influential masters in the world economy in the 20th century" by Businessweek, and the "No.1 Leader" in 20001year by Businessweek. He is regarded as a management master who keeps pace with Michael Porter, the father of competitive strategy, and peter drucker, the father of modern management.

4. Personal characteristics

1) Xueba

John Kurt studied at MIT and Harvard University in his early years. From 65438 to 0972, he began to teach at Harvard Business School. From 65438 to 0980, 33-year-old Kurt became a tenured professor at Harvard Business School. He and Michael Porter, the father of competitive strategy, are the youngest winners in Harvard history.

2) Speaker

John Kurt is also a world-famous speaker. He has provided lectures and consulting services to dozens of enterprises, including world-class companies such as Citigroup, Pepsi-Cola and General Electric. In the new century, Kurt also gave China his popular speech. Kurt's speech is full of emotion and appeal. His goal is to arouse the enthusiasm of the audience, so he encourages interactive participation in discussions other than personal speeches. Video, slides, case studies and, of course, humor and dramatic effects constitute the success factors of Kurt's speech.

3) best-selling author

The starting point of Kurt's career is to study the behavior of managers. Before turning to the art of leadership, Kurt wrote many articles about comprehensive management. He believes that whether managers can manage effectively depends largely on whether they can establish some kind of connection with others.

General manager-1982

1985- power and influence

1988- the art of leadership in modern enterprises

1990- the power of change.

1992- Corporate Culture and Performance

1995- new rules

1996- leading the change

1997- Panasonic leadership

1999- "What leaders really do"

Tissue dynamics

Eight steps of successful transformation of enterprises

The giant stood in the ruins.

Harvard Class of 74.

2002-The Core of Change

2006-Our iceberg is melting.

His book "Panasonic Leadership" won the "Global Business Book Award" of the Financial Times, and so on. 200 1, Businessweek selected Kurt as "the first leader". His article "What Leaders Should Do" published in Harvard Business Review was selected as the first of eight articles in the Chinese version of Harvard Business Review in June 2004.