Accelerate ─ Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World

How to Accelerate Your Business

From bestselling author John P. Kotter (Leading Change, A Sense of Urgency, Our Iceberg Is Melting), this new work offers a detailed explanation of his award-winning idea on a new ?dual operating system” that allows organizations to move at the pace of change while providing the necessary structures to help it run successfully.

Torn between staying ahead of the competition, constantly innovating, and still delivering this year’s results, today’s leaders need help in the face of competing demands. In this important new book, which expands on Kotter’s McKinsey Award -winning article in the Harvard Business Review (November 2012), Kotter describes this ?dual operating system”?network and hierarchy?including how it works and how to build it. The idea stems from the author’s experience in the field helping numerous organizations (public and private) build dual operating systems in recent years. Kotter predicts that such systems are the key to long-term success in the 21st century?for shareholders, customers, employees, and companies themselves.

Accelerate will help organizations keep up with an ever-more-turbulent world, responding to threats and capturing opportunities for true strategic agility.

John P. Kotter is the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership, Emeritus, at Harvard Business School. Widely regarded as the authority on leadership and change, Kotter is a New York Times bestselling author, award-winning business and management thought leader, business entrepreneur, and inspirational speaker. His ideas, books, speeches, and company?Kotter International?have helped mobilize people around the world to better lead organizations, and their own lives, in an era of increasingly rapid change. Kotter has authored 18 books to date, with 12 of them becoming bestsellers. His books have reached millions of readers globally and have been translated into more than 30 languages.