Book Titles

A Sense of Urgency

By John Kotter

Year Published: 2008
ISBN-13: 978-1422179710
Categories: Change, Success, Urgency

62 Quotes Found

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A Sense of Urgency:

True urgency focuses on critical issues, not agendas overstuffed with the important and the trivial.

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A Sense of Urgency:

A real sense of urgency is a highly positive and highly focused force.

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A Sense of Urgency:

People who are determined to move and win, now, simply do not waste time or add stress by engaging in irrelevant or business-as-usual activities.

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A Sense of Urgency:

The good news here – and there is good news – is that a changing world offers not only many hazards but wonderful opportunities.

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A Sense of Urgency:

Anxiety and anger drive behavior that can be energetic – which is why people mistake false for true urgency.

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A Sense of Urgency:

The human capacity to hide feelings of fear and anger from others, and themselves, can be astonishing at times.

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A Sense of Urgency:

Underlying a true sense of urgency is a set of feelings: a compulsive determination to move, and win, now.

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A Sense of Urgency:

More than thoughts in the mind, it is feelings in the heart that create the unchanging behavior of complacency…

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A Sense of Urgency:

A brilliant business case, packaged and delivered in the wrong way, can create indifference, suspicion, anger, or cynicism…

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A Sense of Urgency:

…people feel that despite creating a difficult situation, a crisis might be a blessing in disguise.

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