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A Sense of Urgency

A collection of 6 issues

IBM Turnaround - part 1

🔖This Week’s Lesson: Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance?: Leading a Great Enterprise Through Dramatic Change by Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. (Chapters 1-8) The story of IBM’s turnaround has proved to be fascinating so far. I think it really adds a lot to be reading about it from

No, I don't want no Scrubs

🔖This Week's (er...last two weeks') Lesson: Deal with NoNos A Sense of Urgency by John P. Kotter (Chapter 7) Hello! I am sorry for having disappeared the last two weeks. Thanks for being patient with me. In this post, we review our final tactic on how

When life gives you crises, make opportunity

🔖Week 23 Lesson: Find Opportunity in Crises A Sense of Urgency by John P. Kotter (Chapter 6) This week we learn a third tactic for instilling a sense of true urgency for our change effort: finding opportunity in crises. The crises can come from within the organization or as a

Behave With Urgency Every Day

🔖Week 22 Lesson: Behave With Urgency Every Day A Sense of Urgency by John P. Kotter (Chapter 5) In this week’s lesson, we learn the second tactic to raising the level of true urgency: behave with urgency every day. While that might evoke a mental image of a chicken

Your Environment Signals the Need for Change

🔖Week 21 Lesson: A Sense of Urgency by John P. Kotter (Chapter 4: Tactic One - Bring the Outside In) This week’s lesson was about how to bring the outside in to increase the sense of urgency. The basic idea is that people up and down the hierarchy of

True Urgency for Real Change

🔖This Week’s Lesson: A Sense of Urgency by John P. Kotter (Chapters 1-3) Hi!! I am so excited to share with you what I’ve learned so far this week! In previous posts, I went into detail about two different change efforts I tried to bring about: * Formalizing a