John Kotter on How to Transform Companies
In an excerpt from A Sense of Urgency, Kotter explains why some initiatives for organizational change work while others never get off the ground
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A Sense of Urgency
I was present recently at a well-known company's annual top management meeting, where two division managers made speeches. Manager No. 1 walked to the podium, asked for the lights to go down, and began his speech. A new, information-rich PowerPoint slide appeared every 30 to 60 seconds. He looked at his notes about a third of the time, the slides another third, and what he could see of the audience in the dim room the final third. He was remarkably articulate.