Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World
by John P. Kotter
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If you’re a pioneer, a leader who knows that bold change is necessary to survive and thrive in an ever-changing world, this book will help you accelerate into a better, more profitable future.
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- Apply a powerful new framework for winning in a world of constant turbulence and disruption.
- Respond to opportunities with speed and efficiency by creating a nimble companion to your organization's traditional hierarchy.
- Learn five core principles that help you launch this framework and eight Accelerators that drive it.
- Return to your start-up roots by re-establishing methods that accommodate change as the norm.
About the Author
John P. Kotter is the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership, Emeritus, at Harvard Business School, and is widely regarded as the world’s foremost authority on leadership and change. In recent years Kotter and his firm, Kotter International, have helped numerous organizations, both public and private, build dual operating systems to drive growth and accelerate strategy. He predicts that such systems are the key to sustained success in the 21st century—for shareholders, customers, employees and organizations across all industries and sectors. He is the author of 19 books to date, including Our Iceberg is Melting, A Sense of Urgency, The Heart of Change and Leading Change, to name a few. For more information, visit kotterinternational.com/accelerate.
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