Book Titles

Accelerate
Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World

By John Kotter

Year Published: 2014
ISBN-13: 978-1-62527-174-7
Categories: Agility, Change, Strategy

96 Quotes Found

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Accelerate:

The world is now changing at a rate at which the basic systems, structures, and cultures built over the past century cannot keep up with the demands placed on them.

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Accelerate:

You need something very new to stay ahead in an age of tumultuous change and growing uncertainties.

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Accelerate:

…organizations everywhere are struggling to keep up with the accelerating pace of change – let alone get ahead of it.

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…any company that has made it past the start-up stage is optimized much more for efficiency than for strategic agility – the ability to capitalize and dodge threats with speed and assurance.

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…the old ways of setting and executing new strategies are failing us.

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Accelerate:

Virtually all successful organizations on earth go through a very similar life cycle.

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…policies, rules, and procedures, even sensible ones, become barriers to strategic speed.

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…the reality is that the problem is systemic and directly related to the limitations of hierarchy and basic managerial processes.

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Part of the problem is political and social: people often loath to take chances without permission from superiors.

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…people cling to their habits and fear loss of power and structure.

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