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Discuss a shared sense of urgency - can these be made to seem real or must they fail?

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The solution discusses why a shared sense of urgency is so important in business today and lists seven examples of how to create a shared sense of urgency.

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In successful change efforts, the first step is making sure sufficient people act with sufficient urgency?with on-your-toes behavior that looks for opportunities and problems, that energizes colleagues, that beams a sense of "let's go." Without enough urgency, large-scale change can become an exercise in pushing a gigantic boulder up a very tall mountain. An atmosphere of urgency will create an atmosphere of achievement.

High Achievers work best under a self-determined or externally fixed deadline for achieving objectives. True greatness is only achieved once we develop a sense ...

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