Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World
by John P. Kotter
The dual operating system: keep the hierarchy for reliability and add a network for agility, driven by a volunteer army and the eight accelerators. Kotter's update of his change model for continuous change.
Read it if…
your hierarchy is too slow and you cannot replace it.
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Skip it if…
you want the classic eight steps; see Leading Change.
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Three things you will actually use
- Hierarchy plus network.
- Volunteers, not assignees.
- Urgency around a big opportunity.
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Recruit a volunteer guiding coalition for one strategic initiative.
Our verdict
The dual operating system.
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