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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A management-driven hierarchy tends to relegate action into its silos.

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A large part of the effective and relentless role modeling of urgency is to make visible and celebrate any seized opportunities – even if they are small wins…

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Celebrations give a needed pat on the back to people who are trying to help. The emotional reward of these pats is positive energy…

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Management-driven hierarchies are designed to offer either economic rewards or threats.

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Useful small wins can be defined by the people taking early action themselves, and they can provide intrinsic rewards.

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Being relentless is key. The means role modeling with as many mechanisms as possible, as often as possible, and involving as may people as possible.

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Great urgency that drives people in a dozen different directions achieves nothing.

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There are very few solid enterprises that do not have the potential to go from good to great, and very few struggling organizations that cannot stop struggling and start winning.

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A Big Opportunity is something that can potentially lead to significant outcomes if the possibility is exploited well enough and fast enough.

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A Big Opportunity is both rational in light of available data and emotionally compelling to people inside an organization. It draws on both the heart and the mind.

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