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

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Even in mature organizations, informal networks of change agents frequently operate under the hierarchical radar to making something new happen faster.

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…very few jobs in traditional hierarchical organizations provide the information and the experience needed to help people becomes leaders.

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…most complex perspectives and skills are developed on the job, not in the classroom.

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Innovation requires risks, people who are willing to think outside their boxes, perspectives from multiple silos, and more.

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Management-driven hierarchies are built to minimize risk and keep people in their boxes and silos. To change this more than incrementally is to fight a losing battle.

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Hierarchies with great management processes and good leaders on top are not built for leaping into a creative future.

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Although a typical hierarchy tends not to change much from year to year, this type of network typically morphs all the time with ease.

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In a truly reliable, efficient, agile, and fast enterprise, the network meshes with the more traditional structure…

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…actions by senior executives clearly signal that the network is not in any way a rogue operation… it is part of a system designed for competing and winning.

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