paper on What effective managers really do Kotter 1982
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This paper is part of my exam of "Management & Organization Dynamics" at Nijenrode University. This paper starts with a summary of Kotters 1982 article "What effective managers really do [1]", by an experimental mind map [2] (studying the background of this article, I ran in to the theory of mind mapping which I immediately would try to apply). After the summary I give my opinion on this article and try to adapt the theory to a problematic situation in my own organization. I conclude my paper with some critical notes on this article.
Summary (applying the theory of mind mapping)
Figure 1: Summary of "What effective managers really do"
Why did I select this article?
Triggered by a self-study course on time management, I've made notes on my time spending from minute to minute for three days on a row in the summer of 2003. I noticed that on any particular day, I had several, not planned contacts with some of my colleagues, my employees and my (internal) customers. At that time I stipulated these contacts as a disturbance of my planned activities. Reading the article of Kotter, I wondered if maybe, my former conclusion was perhaps untrue.
Importance of this article
John Kotter [3] is professor of Leadership at the Harvard Business School...