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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As they mature, organizations evolve naturally toward a single system – a hierarchical organization – at the expense of the entrepreneurial network.

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For speed and agility, you need a fundamentally different way to gather information, make decisions, and implement decisions that have some strategic significance.

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Every great leader throughout history has demonstrated that it is possible to find many change agents… but only if people are given a choice and feel they truly have permission to step forward and act.

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The desire to work with others for an important and exciting purpose, and the realistic possibility of doing so, are key. They always have been.

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As have all great leaders throughout history, you must speak to the genuine and fundamental human desire to contribute to some bigger cause…

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If you can provide a vehicle that can give greater meaning and purpose to their efforts, amazing things are possible.

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The game is about vision, opportunity, agility, inspired action, passion, innovation, and celebration – not just project management…

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…through education, role modeling… demonstrated success, and finally sinking into the very DNA of the organization, so it comes to feel like, well, ‘the way we do things here.’

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Urgency… is not just about this week’s problems but about the strategic threats and possibilities flying at you faster and faster.

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With a sufficient sense of urgency, finding good people who want to participate in a guiding coalition is surprisingly easy.

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