Power Steps |
Watch Out For |
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1. Establish a Sense of Urgency
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Not establishing a great enough sense of urgency. |
2. Form a Powerful Guiding Coalition
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Not creating a powerful enough guiding coalition. |
3. Create a Vision
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A lack of vision and a lack of planning. |
4. Communicate the Vision
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Failing to communicate the vision to enough people. |
5. Empower Others to Act on the Vision
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Failing to adequately address the obstacles in way of the vision. |
6. Plan for and Create Short-Term Wins
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Not celebrating and highlighting the incremental "wins". |
7. Consolidate Improvements and Produce More Change
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Declaring victory too soon. |
8. Institutionalize New Approaches
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Not anchoring change in history and ensuring sustainability. |
* Developed from John Kotter. "Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail".
Harvard Business Review. March-April, 1995.