A Sense of Urgency Audiobook (Free)

True urgency is certainly a gut-level determination to go and win, now. It’s practitioners are unusually alert. They arrive to work every day determined to attain something important, and they shed irrelevant activities to move quicker and smarter. Those with a sense of urgency are the opposing of complacent-but they aren’t stressed-out and stressed, producing great activity without very much productivity. Rather, they move boldly toward the future-sharply on the lookout for the risks as well as the opportunities in regards to a Sense of Urgency that switch brings. Bestselling author and business master John Kotter knows about urgency. “Raising urgency” is the first step in his enormously successful eight-step framework, 1st articulated in Leading Modification. But simply because Kotter illustrates, increasing urgency is the toughest from the eight methods, and the one without which even the most excellent, high-powered initiatives will sputter and pass away. More importantly, once we changeover to a global where change can be continuous-not simply episodic-he displays how urgency must become a primary, sustained capacity. With vivid and powerful stories, Kotter reveals a unique view of the type of urgency needed in every business. He also features the insidious character of its nemesis, complacency, in every its guises. He points out the key difference between constructive true urgency, as well as the frantic wheelspinning that is so often mistaken for urgency. He provides crucial tactics for raising urgency, as well as exposing and rooting out complacency, with chapters on: •Bringing the outside in •Behaving with urgency every day •Acquiring chance in crises •Coping with “NoNos” or naysayers A Sense of Urgency can be a powerful tool for anyone wanting to win within a turbulent world that will only continue to move faster.