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Overview

John P. Kotter

Traits of effective leaders

Eight steps to transform you organizationFour Mistakes That Lead to Failure


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John P. Kotter

Professor of Leadership at Harvard School

of Business

Speaker At Management Meetings

Author of six best selling books:


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Traits of Effective Leaders

Quest for learning

Risk takers

Open to people and ideas


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Eight steps to transform you organization

Establish a sense of urgency

Form a powerful guiding coalition

Create a vision

Communicate the vision Empower others to act on the vision

Plan for and create short-term wins

Consolidate improvements and produce stillmore change

Institutionalize new approaches


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Establish a Sense of Urgency

Change is urgent and imperative

Balance short-term goals with long-term

vision

Utilize short-term gains as reminders


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Establish a Sense of Urgency

S.W.O.T. analysis

Set the mood

Manage time


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Form a Powerful Guiding Coalition

Create a team to lead change

Engaging the right talent

Guiding the coalition strategically

Working as a team, not just as a collection of

individuals


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Create a Vision

Emotional as opposed to rational

Clear intention and attainable

Guides decision-making

Directs the change effort


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Vision, Results, and Sustainable Success

High

RESULTS

Low

Unsustainable

Success

Sustainable

Success

Stagnation Aborted

Vision

Weak Strong

VISION


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Communicate the Vision

Leaders set an example

Various vehicles to communicate new

vision


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Empower Others to Act On the Vision

Eliminate obstacles to change

Change structures that undermine the

vision

Encourage risk-taking activities


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Plan for and Create Short-term Wins

Plan for tangible goals

Establish goals and create improvements

Reward employee involvement


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Consolidate Improvements and

Produce Still More Change

Change structures and policies to fit the

vision

Hire right employees to implement vision

Keep things fresh


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Institutionalize New Approaches

Create a relation between change

behaviours and success

Implement strategies to ensure leadership

development


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Four Mistakes That Lead to Failure

Writing a memo instead of lighting a fire

Talking too much and saying too little

Declaring victory before the war is over

Looking for villains in all the wrong places


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Writing a Memo Instead of Lighting a Fire

Managers fail to create the sense of

urgency during change

Do not just send out a report, have a

meeting


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Solution

Gather group to identify complacencies

Brainstorm ways to counteract

complacencies

Develop action plan to implement ideas


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Talking Too Much and Saying Too Little

Most leaders under communicate their

change in vision by a factor of 10

Use speeches and memos too often

Lead by example

Leaders must behave consistently with

their goals


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Solution

Lead by example

Leaders should behave consistently with

their goals


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Declaring Victory Before the War Is Over

Often with initial success, leaders lose

sight of overall objective

Forget the difficulty and time it takes to

make change


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Solution

Dont settle for too little too soon

Dont lose sight of the work thats left to be

done


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Looking for Villains In All the Wrong

Places

The perception that middle-management

resists change is unfair

Educated workforce-everyone is involved

in the change process

Biggest obstacles to change are people

directly under the CEO


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Solution

Build a guiding coalition that represents all

levels of the organization


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Conclusion

John P. Kotter

Traits of Effective Leaders

Eight steps to transform you organization

Four Mistakes that lead to failure


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Conclusion

No organization today - large or small, local or global - is immune to

change. To cope with new technological, competitive, and

demographic forces, leaders in every sector have sought to

fundamentally alter the way their organizations do business.

John P. Kotter

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