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"40 John Kotter Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 25 February 1947 | Professor | Author |

Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there.

Leaders Vision Future Strategy
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Tradition is a very powerful force.

Tradition Powerful Force
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Never underestimate the power of the mind to disempower.

Underestimate Power Mind
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In an ever changing world, you never learn it all, even if you keep growing into your 90s.

Changing World Learn Growing
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Transformation is a process, not an event
Transformation Process Event
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Whenever smart and well-intentioned people avoid confronting obstacles, they disempower employees and undermine change.

Smart People Obstacles Change
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The rate of change is not going to slow down anytime soon. If anything, competition in most industries will probably speed up even more in the next few decades.

Change Slow down Competition Industries
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We worry about appearing awkward in a presentation. But up to a point, most people seem to feel more comfortable with less-than-perfect speaking abilities. It makes the speaker more human - and more vulnerable, meaning he is less likely to attack our decisions or beliefs

Feel Speaker Human Beliefs
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I'm impatient. Typically people think they know all about change and don't need help. Their approach tends to be more management-oriented than leadership-oriented. It's very frustrating.

People Change Management Leadership
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The world has 6 billion people and counting. We need to help 500 million people become better leaders so that billions can benefit.

World People Help Leaders
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If the culture you have is radically different from an 'experiment and take-risk' culture, then you have a big change you going to have to make - and no little gimmicks are going to do it for you.

Culture Experiment Risk Change
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Managers are trained to make incremental, programmatic improvements. They aren't trained to lead large-scale change.

Managers Trained Lead Change
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A higher rate of urgency does not imply ever-present panic, anxiety, or fear. It means a state in which complacency is virtually absent.

Panic Anxiety Fear Absent
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Great leaders understand that historical success tends to produce stable and inwardly focused organizations, and these outfits, in turn, reinforce a feeling of contentment with the status quo.

Leaders Success Produce Status quo
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Because management deals mostly with the status quo and leadership deals mostly with change, in the next century we are going to have to try to become much more skilled at creating leaders

Management Status quo Skilled Leaders
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We are always creating new tools and techniques to help people, but the fundamental framework is remarkably resilient, which means it must have something to do with the nature of organizations or human nature.

Creating People Framework Nature
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We started Kotter International to improve leaders' ability to deal with big, important transformations in organizations - and in their lives.

Leaders' Transformation Organizations Lives
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Effective leaders help others to understand the necessity of change and to accept a common vision of the desired outcome.

Leadership Change Vision Outcome
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Leadership defines what the future should look like, aligns people with that vision, and inspires them to make it happen despite the obstacles.

Leadership People Vision Obstacles
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A leader needs enough understanding to fashion an intelligent strategy.

Leader Fashion Intelligent Strategy
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Good communication does not mean that you have to speak in perfectly formed sentences and paragraphs. It isn't about slickness. Simple and clear go a long way.

Communication Speak Slickness Simple
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In the final analysis, change sticks when it becomes the way we do things around here.

Analysis Change Way Things
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Without credible communication, and a lot of it, the hearts and minds of others are never captured.

Communication Hearts Mind Captured
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The heart of change is in the emotions.

Heart Change Emotions
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Leadership produces change. That is its primary function

Leadership Change Function
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Most people don't lead their own lives - they accept their lives

People Lead Lives Accept
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Complacency is almost always the product of success or perceived success

Complacency Product Success
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Motivation is not a thinking word; it's a feeling word.

Motivation Thinking Word Feeling
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In a change effort, culture comes last, not first.

Change Culture Last First
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Without conviction that you can make change happen, you will not act, even if you see the vision. Your feelings will hold you back.

Conviction Change Vision Feelings
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Great leaders motivate large groups of individuals to improve the human condition.

Leaders Motivate Improve Human conditions
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A culture truly changes only when a new way of operating has been shown to succeed over some minimum period of time.

Culture Changes Succeed Time
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One of the most powerful forms of information is feedback on our own actions.

Powerful Forms Information Actions
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Leadership is about coping with change
Leadership Coping Change
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Never underestimate the power of a good story.

Underestimate Power Good story
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We keep a change in place by helping to create a new, supportive, and sufficiently strong organizational culture.

Change Create New Organizational culture
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Leadership is different from management, but not for the reasons most people think.

Leadership Management People Think
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Valued achievements connect to people at a deeper level—and a deeper level can change behavior that is generally very difficult to change.

Achievements People Behavior Change
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No vision issue today is bigger than the question of efficiency versus some combination of innovation and customer service.

Vision Efficiency Innovation Customer service
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Anyone in a large organization who thinks major change is impossible should probably get out.

Organization Thinks Change Impossible
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John Kotter Quotes & Sayings