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Get Real
Since the first edition of Danger was published, I’ve watched many organizations try to transform themselves. I now believe there are three primary things organizations must do. Those are (1) Get real; (2) Operate in optimum ways; (3) Create critical conditions. In this chapter I’ll deal with the first.
Getting Real involves:
■ Urgency
■ Leadership
■ Strategy
■ Pressure to Perform
■ Purposeful Work
Urgency
More than anything else, organizations have to get their people in touch with reality, because it’s reality that is driving the need for mega-change. Entitlement protects people from reality; it provides comfort even when the organization is failing. I was at a division of IBM when the corporation was losing billions. When ...
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