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

Substance, Not Form!

Back in the day, when I worked in real estate development, I can't tell you how important an aerial map was to virtually every presentation.

The Confession of a Visual Aid Creator

PowerPoint, movies, projectors, write-on devises and mounted material are not even visual aids. They are media or medium. They are only the vehicle that brings a visual aid to us.

All to often, people who teach you how to use visual aids only discuss the advantages and disadvantages of these different media (or tools).

No time is spent telling you it's not the PowerPoint, but the content displayed. Not the movie but the message it protrays. They don't tell you it's what's projected on the screen, not the hardware that's used to get it there.

That's what this blog is about, , , substance over form. Not what it's displayed with but actually what is displayed.

MethodMap.blogspot.com is about substance.

Well thought substance, shared with interested and involved people, drawn on the back of a napkin will out perform a multimedia extravaganza shown to thousands of people any day.

Wayne