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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 658.406 EAN: 9781422179710 Edition: 1 ISBN: 1422179710 Label: Harvard Business School Press Manufacturer: Harvard Business School Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 128 Publication Date: September 03, 2008 Publisher: Harvard Business School Press Studio: Harvard Business School Press Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Most organizational change initiatives fail spectacularly (at worst) or deliver lukewarm results (at best). In his international bestseller Leading Change, John Kotter revealed why change is so hard, and provided an actionable, eight-step process for implementing successful transformations. The book became the change bible for managers worldwide. Now, in Urgency, Kotter shines the spotlight on the crucial first step in his framework: creating a sense of urgency by getting people to actually see and feel the need for change. Why focus on urgency? Without it, any change effort is doomed. Kotter reveals the insidious nature of complacency in all its forms and guises. In this exciting new book, Kotter explains: Written in Kotter's signature no-nonsense style, this concise and authoritative guide helps you set the stage for leading a successful transformation in your company. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Changing the idea of change managementA Sense of Urgency is a book that is sorely needed in today's times as the difference between urgency and change will make the difference between survival and liquidation in today's economy. Executives need to recognize the difference between the two. Urgency creates a motivating force on results and teaming. Change is imposed from above, the subject of skepticism and Dilbert cartoons. Every organization needs to change, that is commonly understood and the subject of endless books, ... Read More Rating:  - More on UrgencyJohn Kotter's A Sense of Urgency builds on his earlier works on change - Leading Change, Heart of Change, and Our Iceberg is Melting. Unlike these other titles Kotter focuses on one step in the change process. He offers many useful suggestions about creating a sense of urgency. Anyone involved in leading change should take this seriously because urgency is foundational to change. No urgency, no change. And arousing a sense of urgency is not as easy as it sounds. People and organizations want to hang ... Read More Rating: - A solid read for any business managerSpeed is an underrated and powerful aspect of business that oft goes ignored. "A Sense of Urgency" is a guide to business urgency and keeping the sense of it going to increase productivity and efficiency. Urgency brings speed, speed brings changes, and changes bring opportunities, and opportunities bring profit. A must for improving one's business while not stressing employees out, "A Sense of Urgency" is a solid read for any business manager. Rating: - Move!!!In this book Kotter focuses on the first of the eight steps outlined in his book Leading Change. According to Kotter, creating a sense of urgency is the single most important part of a change effort. I would have to agree. In the company I just left, we could see the threats in the business environment at the unit level. But at the corporate level, there was an attitude of "we have time, we've been here before". Kotter helps us identify complacency, and gives us strategies to fight it. ... Read More Rating: - Get Off the Dime and Pick Up the Big Bucks for Your OrganizationWhenever I meet CEOs, they invariably tell me that they wish their people had more "fire in the belly" or more of a sense of urgency. What are they talking about? Their organizations go about saving someone's life in such a slow methodical fashion, that no life would ever be saved. It's as though a fire truck arrived at a fire and never unrolled any hoses or attached them to any fire hydrants. Instead, they are checking the equipment before getting started. I have seen this in my own organizations. ... Read More 
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