John P. Kotter Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• The central issue is never strategy, structure, culture, or systems. The core of the matter is always about changing the behavior of people.

  John P. Kotter

  Issues, People, Culture

  John P. Kotter, Dan Cohen (2013). “The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations”, p.11, Harvard Business Press

• In a change effort, culture comes last, not first.

  John P. Kotter

  Effort, Culture, Lasts

  John P. Kotter, Dan Cohen (2015). “Successful Organizational Change: The Kotter-Cohen Collection (2 Books)”, p.174, Harvard Business Review Press

• If the culture you have is radically different from an 'experiment and take-risk' culture, then you have a big change you going to have to make - and no little gimmicks are going to do it for you.

  John P. Kotter

  Risk, Different, Culture

• We keep a change in place by helping to create a new, supportive, and sufficiently strong organizational culture.

  John P. Kotter

  Strong, Supportive, Culture

  John P. Kotter, Dan Cohen (2015). “Successful Organizational Change: The Kotter-Cohen Collection (2 Books)”, Harvard Business Review Press

• A culture truly changes only when a new way of operating has been shown to succeed over some minimum period of time.

  John P. Kotter

  Culture, Way, Succeed

  John P. Kotter, Dan Cohen (2015). “Successful Organizational Change: The Kotter-Cohen Collection (2 Books)”, p.174, Harvard Business Review Press

• In terms of getting people to experiment more and take more risk, there are at least three things that immediately come to my mind. Number one, of course, is role-modeling it yourself. Number two is when people take intelligent, smart risks and yet it doesn't work out, not shooting them. And number three, being honest with yourself. If the culture you have is radically different from an experiment and take-risk culture, then you have a big change you going to have to make—and no little gimmicks are going to do it for you.

  John P. Kotter

  Smart, Intelligent, Two

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