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:

…a vision that fits a big strategic opportunity and select strategic initiatives… can move you with speed and agility toward the vision.

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Accelerate:

…it is essential that the core of the network (the guiding coalition) and the executive committee learn to develop and maintain the right relationship.

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Accelerate:

…building momentum: the most important step here is to create and communicate wins from the very start.

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Accelerate:

The inevitable failures of single operating systems hurt us now… they are going to kill us in the future. The twenty-first century will force us all to evolve…

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Accelerate:

If we can successfully implement a new way of running organizations, we can take advantage of the strategic challenges in a rapidly changing world.

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Accelerate:

…the consequences of an increasingly changing world do have a downside, they also have a potentially huge upside.

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Accelerate:

…the companies that get there first… will see immediate and long-term success…. Those who lag will suffer greatly – if they survive at all.

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Accelerate:

…our decisions and actions always increase the probability of what we call ‘luck,’ good or bad.

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Accelerate:

Without management, chaos would reign. Enterprises would fall apart and go out of business quickly.

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Accelerate:

…management is not leadership. Leadership is about setting a direction. It’s about creating a vision, empowering and inspiring people to want to achieve the vision, and enabling them to do so…

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