Enthusiasm

The most important excerpts of Tom Kotter’s book “Leading change”

Some of the most common errors when transforming an organization
1. Allowing too much complacency
2. Failing to create a sufficiently powerful guiding coalition
3. Underestimating the power of vision
4. Under communicating the vision by a factor of 10x-100x
5. Permitting obstacles to block the new vision
6. Failing to create short-term wins
7. Declaring victory too soon
8. Neglecting to anchor changes firmly in the corporate culture.

The eight stage process of leading change
1. Establishing a sense of Urgency
2. Creating a guiding coalition
3. Developing a vision and strategy
4. Communicating the changed vision
5. Empowering broad-base action
6. Generating short-term wins
7. Consolidating gains and producing more change
8. Anchoring new approaches in culture.