A Sense of Urgency, by John P. Kotter

A Sense of Urgency, John P. Kotter

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Harvard Business School professor, John P. Kotter is one of the world's leading authorities on leadership and change. His latest book, A Sense of Urgency, approaches his two signature topics in a new and more critical way.

He has concluded that there is a great fall off in urgency in business.

And that this lessened degree on urgency among leaders is making it more difficult to deal with the problems of doing business it the 2010's and beyond.

Kotter has identified a series of twelve (12) factors necessary for leadership to be able to begin new urgency and action it their organization.

Because twelve elements are too many for most adults to manage in their own thinking, I have developed a "color coded" process model (or Method Map) to help you and your audiences understand his principles.

Though presented in under a minute here, this content could easily be a one hour (or longer) lecture.

What I have done here is use the old "fish bone" approach in a more formal way to illustrate four "back bone" ideas, supported by two additional points each.

This is a technique I call a "Table of Contents" model. Such many-elemented, complex graphics can be created to support a over-all theme, book, seminar or conference, etc.

Let me know how this visual aid works in your own thinking and speaking.

Wayne

A Coalition for Change, John Kotter

A few days ago, I gave you from the book, The Communication Problem Solver: Simple Tools and Techniques for Busy Managers by Nannette Rundle Carroll, a little visual aid that shows you how to overcome many of your communication problems,

It’s a three step model.

I am a great fan of a three step process. As a public speaker, you should always be trying to reduce your message to its’ simplest form, , , and it doesn’t get much smaller than three steps.

Coalition for Change

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Today I have created a similar three step process from the three concepts John Kotter presents on page 66 of his book, Leading Change.

It is one you might find helpful in your current speaking activities. This model can be played and advanced by your click of the double-forward button on the Slideboom control bar.

Wayne