Dr Paul Allen

Cover of Leading Change Every time I teach or work with church leaders the topic of managing change comes up. With that, I decided to go back and take a look at a classic book on the topic,  Leading Change  by John Kotter . I highlighted so many key passages that it was impossible for me to narrow my favorites down to just one post. With that in mind, here are the first set of highlights that grabbed my attention. I’ll share the second set tomorrow. “Transformations always fail to achieve their objectives when complacency levels are high.” “ Vision plays a key role in producing useful change by helping to direct, align, and inspire actions on the part of large numbers of people. Without an appropriate vision, a transformation effort can easily dissolve into a list of confusing, incompatible, and time-consuming projects that go in the wrong direction or nowhere at all.” “Whenever you cannot describe the vision driving a change initiative in five minutes or less and get a rea...

Cover of Leading Change Every time I teach or work with church leaders the topic of managing change comes up. With that, I decided to go back and take a look at a classic book on the topic,  Leading Change  by John Kotter . I highlighted so many key passages that it was impossible for me to narrow my favorites down to just one post. With that in mind, here are the first set of highlights that grabbed my attention. I’ll share the second set tomorrow. “Transformations always fail to achieve their objectives when complacency levels are high.” “ Vision plays a key role in producing useful change by helping to direct, align, and inspire actions on the part of large numbers of people. Without an appropriate vision, a transformation effort can easily dissolve into a list of confusing, incompatible, and time-consuming projects that go in the wrong direction or nowhere at all.” “Whenever you cannot describe the vision driving a change initiative in five minutes or less and get a rea...