A Sense of Urgency

by Kotter, John P.

• ISBN13: 9781422179710
• ISBN10: 1422179710
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-08-05
• Publisher: Ingram Pub Services

Summary

True urgency is a gut-level determination to move and win, now. Its practitioners are unusually alert. They come to work each day determined to achieve something important, and they shed irrelevant activities to move faster and smarter. Those with a sense of true urgency are the opposite of complacent-but they are not stressed-out and anxious, generating great activity without much productivity. Instead, they move boldly toward the future-sharply on the lookout for the hazards and the opportunities that change brings.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
It all starts with a sense of urgency	p. 1
Complacency and false urgency	p. 19
Increasing true urgency: one strategy and four tactics	p. 39
Tactic one: bring the outside in	p. 63
Tactic two: behave with urgency every day	p. 97
Tactic three: find opportunity in crises	p. 119
Tactic four: deal with NoNos	p. 145
Keeping urgency up	p. 169
The future: begin today	p. 189
About the author	p. 195
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