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A 5 page paper that describes and explains Kotter's eight stages of change. The introductory paragraph identifies Kotter's eight errors as the basis for the eight stages for successful change. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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how the authors of this second book supported or contradicted Kotters concepts. Our office phoned but had a bad phone number. Our office e-mailed you but we have had no
response. If you want us to add the comments from the second book, you will need to contact the Revision Dept. of TPS.] Kotters Eight Stages Kotters (1996)
Eight Stages of change management emerged from eight errors observed and are thus, correlates, of the eight stages of successful change processes. For instance, one error is complacency or not
forming a sense of urgency; not creating a powerful guiding coalition; lacking a vision and a stragegy to achieve it, not communicating that vision strongly and frequently, not removing
barriers that will prevent change from occurring; not planning short-term wins; giving up or declaring the change completed too soon; not assuring the change is embedded in the corporate culture
(Gigee, 2007). Another way to think of this is that if an organization follows the 8 Stages or step to change, they will avoid the errors that stifle or prohibit
change. The first four steps in Kotters process help to break through the status quo and get people to start thinking about the need for change. New ideas and
practices carry through in the next three stages. The last stage fully incorporates the changes in the organizational culture, in other words, the changes become institutionalized. 1. Establishing a
sense of urgency. Kotter (1996) says that complacency is often the cause of failure. Complacency exists because there is no sense of urgency. It is common when an organization is
not facing any specific crisis, such as sales plummeting. The change manager must first create a sense of urgency towards reaching a specific goal or solving a certain problem. This
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