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Publisher's summary
Its practitioners are unusually alert. They come to work each day determined to achieve something important, and they shed irrelevant activities to move faster and smarter.
Those with a sense of urgency are the opposite of complacent - but they are not stressed-out and anxious, generating great activity without much productivity. Instead, they move boldly toward the future - sharply on the lookout for the hazards and the opportunities that change brings.
Best-selling author and business guru John Kotter knows about urgency. "Raising urgency" is the first step in his enormously successful eight-step framework, first articulated in Leading Change. But as Kotter illustrates, increasing urgency is the toughest of the eight steps, and the one without which even the most brilliant, high-powered initiatives will sputter and die.
More importantly, as we transition to a world where change is continuous - not just episodic - he shows how urgency must become a core, sustained capability.
With vivid and powerful stories, Kotter reveals a distinctive view of the kind of urgency needed in every organization. He also highlights the insidious nature of its nemesis, complacency, in all its guises. He explains the crucial difference between constructive true urgency, and the frantic wheel-spinning that is so often mistaken for urgency. He provides key tactics for increasing urgency, as well as exposing and rooting out complacency, with chapters on:
A Sense of Urgency is a powerful tool for anyone wanting to win in a turbulent world that will only continue to move faster.
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- Dave G Beatty
- 02-06-10
A tough listen!
While some of the ideas presented in this book are helpful it's presentation leaves much to be desired. I had a difficult time staying awake listening to it.
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- Jan
- 11-25-10
Rather boring
found this book rather boring and not very much value adding. Waste of time to be honest. Kotter's written much better books then this one.
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- Philips Adeniyi
- 09-11-18
Great
Another great book by the author.
will definitely listen to it all over again and again
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- Hu Rongrong
- 12-10-16
Good book but can be more concise.
It's a good book w insightful points like
- Complacency down. Urgency up
- Adresse the heart. Not just brain.
- Being cognizant of false urgency. Avoid purposeless urgent task to look busy.
- Make room and prioritize urgency.
- Bring outside in.
- Focus on customer facing employees. Use every interview chance to get competitor info.
- Never waste a good crisis. Find opportunities in crisis.
- Behave with urgency everyday. From high level execs
- Deal w NoNos as they challenge urgency and retains status quo.
The problem with this book is similar to most of the business or leadership books. A 2 pages essay can be expanded into a 200 pages book.
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- Nayyer
- 01-27-23
Highly recommended for senior leadership
I found the book worth listening. The stories are powerful and very well explained. I liked the concept of No Nos in the organization. I recommend people to read it and understand the difference between the real and the dangerous artificially created urgencies.
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- Tasha Frick
- 10-29-22
Good but not great advice
While the book does point out a very real problem with urgency. It only offers passing advice on how to handle the lack of urgency. Far too often the answers It pontificates is that you must do everything and be everywhere, but not in a false way. The danger of complacency is real and this book does offer some sound advice. That advice gets muddled in poorly executed anecdotes.
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- easyforyoutosay
- 07-25-18
not one of his best but still worth a read
not one of his best but still worth a read. I think he could have done a better job in explaining how to apply some of the real world principles that he talked about in the book about urgency.
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- Melinda
- 06-23-16
fast read, horribly boring.
Unless you have to read it for work, move on to something more interesting. It wimt be hard to find.
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- JasonV
- 01-18-16
Boring and redundant
Pretty much common sense stuff here. If I never hear the words "urgency", "complacency" and "NoNo" again it will be too soon...
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- William Klingensmith
- 05-25-15
painful book to try and listen to
Very dry material. Only listened to it because our plant is using the strategy. If you are looking for a book go with the 7 habits of highly effective people. Only read this book if your company has already chosen it as the platform.
Even then the book has very little useful information
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- Ivan Hristov
- 12-05-22
It could have been a one pager
The base idea in the book is great but the whole thing could have been told in a one pager with a few examples. Went through half the book and I could not find anything else of substance to keep me engaged.
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Shame about the narration
- By Paul on 08-17-08
By: John P. Kotter, and others
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Leading Change
- By: John P. Kotter
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
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The pressures on organizations to change will only increase over the next decades. Yet the methods managers have used to strengthen their companies—total quality management, reengineering, right sizing, restructuring, cultural change, and turnarounds—routinely fall short. In Leading Change, Kotter identifies an eight-step process that every company must go through to achieve its goal, and shows where and how people—good people—often derail.
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A Key Resource for Any Change Leader
- By Marty on 10-24-12
By: John P. Kotter
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Change
- How Organizations Achieve Hard-to-Imagine Results in Uncertain and Volatile Times
- By: John P. Kotter, Vanessa Akhtar, Gaurav Gupta
- Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
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Incremental improvement is no longer sufficient in helping organizations navigate the complexity, uncertainty, and volatility of today's world. In Change, authors John P. Kotter, Vanessa Akhtar, and Gaurav Gupta explore how to create non-linear, dramatic change in your organization. You'll discover the emerging science of change that teaches us about how to build organizations - from businesses to governments - that change and adapt rapidly.
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Nothing learned.
- By miles on 01-13-22
By: John P. Kotter, and others
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Accelerate
- Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World
- By: John P. Kotter
- Narrated by: Chris Sorenson
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
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In the groundbreaking new book Accelerate (XLR8), leadership, change-management expert, and best-selling author John Kotter provides a fascinating answer - and a powerful new framework for competing and winning in a world of constant turbulence and disruption. Accelerate (XLR8) vividly illustrates the five core principles underlying the new network system, the eight accelerators that drive it, and how leaders must create urgency in others through role modeling.
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Terrible
- By cyberpunk on 03-12-19
By: John P. Kotter
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Our Iceberg Is Melting
- Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions
- By: John Kotter, Holger Rathgeber
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 2 hrs and 9 mins
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Our Iceberg Is Melting is a simple fable about doing well in an ever-changing world. Based on the award-winning work of Harvard's John Kotter, it is a story that has been used to help thousands of people and organizations. The fable is about a penguin colony in Antarctica. A group of beautiful emperor penguins live as they have for many years. Then one curious bird discovers a potentially devastating problem threatening their home - and pretty much no one listens to him.
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meh
- By James Rhodenhiser on 02-09-17
By: John Kotter, and others
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That's Not How We Do It Here!
- A Story About How Organizations Rise and Fall - and Can Rise Again
- By: John Kotter, Holger Rathgeber
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin, John Kotter
- Length: 2 hrs and 53 mins
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Once upon a time, a clan of meerkats lived in the Kalahari, a region in Southern Africa. After years of steady growth, a drought has sharply reduced the clan's resources, and deadly vulture attacks have increased. As things keep getting worse, the harmony of the clan is shattered. The executive team quarrels about possible solutions, and suggestions from frontline workers face a soul-crushing response: "That's not how we do it here!"
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Simple book on Organizations
- By Ed Shepherdson on 12-13-16
By: John Kotter, and others
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The Heart of Change
- Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations
- By: John P. Kotter, Dan S. Cohen
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
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Kotter and co-author Dan S. Cohen delve deeper into the subject of change to get to the heart of how change actually happens. Through compelling, real-life stories from people in the trenches, in all kinds of organizations, the authors attack the fundamental problem that underlies every major transformation: How do you go beyond simply getting your message across to truly changing people's behavior?
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Shame about the narration
- By Paul on 08-17-08
By: John P. Kotter, and others
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Buy-In
- Saving Your Good Idea from Getting Shot Down
- By: John P. Kotter, Lorne A. Whitehead
- Narrated by: Tim Wheeler
- Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins
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You believe in a good idea. You know it could make a crucial difference for you, your organization, your community. You present it, hoping for enthusiastic support. Instead, you get confounding questions, inane comments, and verbal bullets. Before you know what’s hit you, your idea is dead, shot down. It doesn’t have to be this way, say John Kotter and Lorne Whitehead. In Buy-In, they reveal how to protect good ideas and win the support needed to deliver valuable results.
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Practical Application
- By Kellie on 05-13-11
By: John P. Kotter, and others
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Change Management (Including Featured Article "Leading Change," by John P. Kotter)
- HBR's 10 Must Reads Series
- By: Harvard Business Review, John P. Kotter, W. Chan Kim, and others
- Narrated by: Bernard Setaro Clark, Susan Larkin
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
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Most company's change initiatives fail. Yours don't have to.
By: Harvard Business Review, and others
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Leading Change
- Wie Sie Ihr Unternehmen in acht Schritten erfolgreich verändern
- By: John P. Kotter
- Narrated by: Dominic Kolb
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
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John P. Kotters wegweisendes Werk Leading Change zählt heute zu den wichtigsten Managementbüchern überhaupt. Es wurde in zahlreiche Sprachen übersetzt und millionenfach verkauft. Der Druck auf Unternehmen, sich den permanent wandelnden internen und externen Einflüssen zu stellen, wird weiter zunehmen. Dabei gehört ein offener, aber professionell geführter Umgang mit Change-Prozessen zu den Wesensmerkmalen erfolgreicher Unternehmen im 21. Jahrhundert und zu den größten Herausforderungen in der Arbeit von Führungskräften.
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German only?
- By Jarrod A. Chappell on 06-08-21
By: John P. Kotter
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That's Not How We Do It Here!
- A Story About How Organizations Rise, Fall - and Can Rise Again
- By: John Kotter, Holger Rathgeber
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin, John Kotter
- Length: 2 hrs and 53 mins
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That's Not How We Do It Here! is a business parable about a clan of meerkats who live in the Kalahari. Well-organised and efficient, the colony enjoys many years of successful growth until it suddenly comes under threat from a new form of predator and is forced to rethink its organizational structure. John Kotter uses this charming parable to explore why organizations often struggle no matter their past success and why they fall.
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Great fable, annoying voice/accent
- By Anonymous User on 03-03-21
By: John Kotter, and others
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Organizational Culture and Leadership, Fifth Edition
- By: Edgar H. Schein, Peter Schein
- Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
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Organizational Culture and Leadership is the classic reference for managers and students seeking a deeper understanding of the inter-relationship of organizational culture dynamics and leadership. Author Edgar Schein is the 'father' of organizational culture, world-renowned for his expertise and research in the field; in this book, he analyzes and illustrates through cases the abstract concept of culture and shows its importance to the management of organizational change.
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Terrible listening experience
- By Ashley on 01-26-19
By: Edgar H. Schein, and others
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Integrity
- The Courage to Meet the Demands of Reality
- By: Henry Cloud
- Narrated by: Henry Cloud
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
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Integrity. It is more than simple honesty. It's the key to success. A person with integrity has the, often rare, ability to pull everything together, to make it all happen no matter how challenging the circumstances.
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An Audiobook That Everyone Should Hear
- By Ian on 03-01-06
By: Henry Cloud
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Great by Choice
- By: Jim Collins, Morten T. Hansen
- Narrated by: Jim Collins
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
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