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Creating A Sense of Urgency

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A few years back, change management guru, John Kotter, published his latest book, A Sense of Urgency. Kotter has written about urgency before. For a quick review, here's Kotters " Eight Steps To Transform Your Organization ": Establish a Sense of Urgency. it's also a topic we focus on a lot here at Six Disciplines.).

Kotter 101
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Eight Reasons Why Change Initiatives Fail - And What To Do About Them

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According to John Kotter, change expert and author of "A Force For Change: How Leadership Differs from Management" there are eight reasons why change initiatives fail : Too much complexity. So goes the phrase: "If nothing changes, nothing changes.". Failure to building coalition and support. Not understanding the need for a clear vision.

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Why Is Strategy Execution So Hard? The Odds Are Against Us

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Kotter, Leading Change, 1996). Norton, Harvard Business School Press, The Strategy-Focused Organization, 2001). [3] 3] (Strategy & Leadership Journal, May/June 1999). [4] 4] (Renaissance Solutions Survey, 1996). [5] 5] (Renaissance Solutions Survey, 1996). [6]

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