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A Sense of Urgency:
…the single biggest problem is all in the heart, where fear and anger can kill hope and stop the growth of a true sense of urgency.
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A Sense of Urgency:
…carefully considered action means anticipating how others will behave. It means crafting plans that sequence actions for maximum useful effect in generating true urgency.
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A Sense of Urgency:
…the goals need to be high enough that they cannot possibly be accomplished through business as usual.
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A Sense of Urgency:
…crises, though they can be highly useful, are not necessarily your friend when urgency is needed.
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A Sense of Urgency:
Always think of crises as potential opportunities, and not only dreadful problems… A crisis can be your friend.
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A Sense of Urgency:
…in a more rapidly changing world, finding opportunities in crises probably reduces your overall risk.
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A Sense of Urgency:
Skeptics, if you don’t have too many of them, can usefully keep enthusiastic, but naive, impulses in check.
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A Sense of Urgency:
…never underestimate the damage that a hard-core NoNo can do in undermining efforts to reduce complacency…
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A Sense of Urgency:
An organization that can sustain a high sense of urgency over time has the potential to become a high-performance machine, where results go from good to great and beyond.
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A Sense of Urgency:
After a big win, urgency can slide with remarkable speed into a new complacency…
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