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Accelerate (XLR8)

Leading Blog

John Kotter provides that extra something we need in Accelerate (XLR8). A second system that is organized as a network that works in cooperation with the existing hierarchy. Much more leadership, not just management. He writes that management-driven hierarchies are “still absolutely necessary to make organizations work.”

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Culture Trumps Strategy, Every Time

Harvard Business Review

Many other experts, such as Senge and Kotter have certainly added to that understanding with complex and nuanced constructs, but Caldwell's invisible glue comment holds a truth. Culture is the set of habits that allows a group of people to cooperate by assumption rather than by negotiation.