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:

One apparent trend today is that more enterprises actually are listening more to frontline personnel.

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A Sense of Urgency:

Very few people will help, regardless of what you say, if you treat them without respect.

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A Sense of Urgency:

There is nothing revolutionary about reducing the outside-inside gap with the help of frontline employees. But very few organizations use this method well.

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A Sense of Urgency:

Because of the control possible with shooting, editing, and showing the material, it [video] can sometimes be more powerful than a live person.

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A Sense of Urgency:

Show them, don’t tell them.

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A Sense of Urgency:

…part of the job of any communication department, [is] finding and creating and displaying powerful video on a regular basis…

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A Sense of Urgency:

Do you want to risk short-term problems, or do you want to shield people from relevant external information… ultimately to undermine an organization’s future?

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A Sense of Urgency:

We have to be constantly vigilant. Past success tells us nothing about the future.

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A Sense of Urgency:

Increasingly changing environments create a need for alertness and agility, which demand a sense of urgency that must be modeled by the boss all the time.

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A Sense of Urgency:

…people… go out of their way to be visible. They conduct themselves so as to let as many others as possible hear their words and see their actions.

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