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Gary Wong
Consultant, Canada
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KOTTER'S ORIGINAL 8-STEP METHOD
John Kotter published his “Leading Change” article in the 1995 issue of HBR. He introduces a framework with 8 Change Phases which at the time resonated with many readers:
Establish a sense of urgency.
Create a coalition.
Develop a clear vision.
Share the vision.
Empower people to clear obstacles.
Secure short-term wins.
Consolidate and keep moving.
Anchor the change.
In 1996 he released a book version. In the book preface he states, “Unlike the article, the book has dozens and dozens of examples of what seems to work and what doesn’t. In this sense, it is more hands-on and practical."
Kotter’s original eight-step process (1996) is very much top-down and places heavy emphasis on getting the early steps right. Change is seen as linear rather than cyclical, which implies that an idealistic end state can be reached rather than iterated towards.
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srinivas
Lecturer, India
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Changes at Tendency Level
Tendencies are more powerful than the individual o (...)
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Joy S. Pillejera
Manager, Philippines
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Change Phases Approach Depends a Lot on Created Sense of Urgency
A lot depends on the leader's “created” sense of u (...)
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Gary Wong
Consultant, Canada
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Strategic Change at the Organizational Level
@Srinivas: The Inside-Out change model I use start (...)
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Gary Wong
Consultant, Canada
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Crossing the Chasm (Geoffrey Moore)
@Joy S. Pillejera: In Geoffrey Moore’s book Crossi (...)
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srinivas
Lecturer, India
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Exploring Further Into the Personal Being
@Wong: You would agree we behave in a particular w (...)
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Gary Wong
Consultant, Canada
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Personal Beings in a Complex Adaptive System
@Srinivas: I agree that we have a tendency to beha (...)
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srinivas
Lecturer, India
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Working on Tendencies
@Gary Wong: It seems recent research corroborates (...)
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Gregory Johnson
Coach, United States
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Vision and Focus
Having been a John Kotter follower for many years, (...)
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Akuru Gabriel
Entrepreneur, Nigeria
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Strategic Change - 8 Accelerators
Thanks for sharing the article on 8 accelerators f (...)
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Tamas Schauermann
Career Consultant, Hungary
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Vision, Opportunity and Obstacles as Motivators of Organizational Change
It was interesting to observe, that in the origina (...)
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Towlson
CEO, South Africa
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Careful with #6. Quick Wins
Be careful with number 6… Quick wins can sometimes (...)
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Jaap de Jonge
Editor, Netherlands
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Careful with Quick Wins in Organizational Change Efforts
@Towlson: I agree, quick wins are powerful motivat (...)
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Graham Williams
Management Consultant, South Africa
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Credibility of Kotter's New 8 Accelerators for Strategic Change
Perhaps fiddling with/ "updating" a model or parad (...)
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Gary Wong
Consultant, Canada
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Models are Partial Representations of the Real World
@Graham Williams: Models are designed to represen (...)
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Sihol Situngkir
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Kotter's New 8 Accelerators for Strategic Change are Important
It is a critical time to elaborate on organization (...)
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Bjarni S. Jonsson
Business Consultant, Iceland
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Transparency in the Change Process
I agree with @Jaap de Jonge on quick wins. I think (...)
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Jaap de Jonge
Editor, Netherlands
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Transparency in the Change Process
@Bjarni S. Jonsson: that's a very good point you a (...)
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Graham Williams
Management Consultant, South Africa
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No Model can Represent the Real World in all Instances
@Gary Wong: Someone once said that models are like (...)
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Gary Wong
Consultant, Canada
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All Models are Wrong
@Graham Williams: I like eminent statistician Geor (...)
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Ivan Kohlinsky
Management Consultant, United Kingdom
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This Approach Used to Work Well, But I don't Know How it Can Cope with the 'modern World
I am familiar with this approach as it used to be (...)
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Gary Wong
Consultant, Canada
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Handling Negative Destructive Forces
@Ivan Kohlinsky: I believe a modern day practitio (...)
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Maurice Hogarth
Consultant, United Kingdom
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Kotter Any Real Change from Steps to Accelerators?
No model provides one right answer (for there is n (...)
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Gary Wong
Consultant, Canada
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Use Accelerators for Speed, Agility and Innovation, Not for Stable Conditions
@Maurice Hogarth: My understanding of "Run the ste (...)
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Gregory Johnson
Coach, United States
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Change 4 Change????
I am a Kotter fan for a long time and find the new (...)
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Maurice Hogarth
Consultant, United Kingdom
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Accelerators to Be Concurrent with Current Activities, no Kidding
@Gary, I understand and accept the dual speeds asp (...)
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Jaap de Jonge
Editor, Netherlands
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How Kotter's New Accelerators Should Be Run Concurrently and Continuously
@Gary and Maurice. In my opinion:
Kotter's or (...)
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