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Using Kotter's Eight-Stage organizational change process, evaluate GEN DePuy's change-effort as the first Commander of TRADOC. Provide examples of three stages of Kotter's model that GEN DePuy employed (or failed to employ) in his TRADOC change-effort, and evaluate whether or not he did an effective job of implementing those stages.

Use chapter 15, "TRADOC Commander," of Henry G. Gole's General William E. DePuy: Preparing the Army for Modern War, and Leading Change by John P. Kotter as primary sources.

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The application of Kotter's 8 stage change model to DePuy's training strategy is discussed in a structured manner in this response. The related references are also provided.

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Kotter's eight-stage organizational change process is developed to support leaders in organizational change. Kotter's organizational change process has eight stages and Kotter argues that neglecting any of these steps can lead to the entire initiative failing. It is a change management model that enables leaders to handle organizational change by mobilizing employees to support the fast adoption and implementation of a new change. The model helps speed up the change process in a fast-paced environment. Kotter's organizational change process when executive effectively can help differentiate the organization and guide workers to use and master the new process faster (2). The eight steps of Kotter for leading changes are:
Step 1: Creating Urgency. Urgency is created by spotting potential threats and scenarios to illustrate what can happen in the future, show opportunities that can be exploited, commence honest discussion and give reasons, and get support from external stakeholders to strengthen the argument.
Step 2: Form a Powerful Coalition: This means that people have to be persuaded. The leader needs to identify important leaders/ stakeholders, ask for an emotional commitment from these people, and build a team for change. The leader must check and strengthen his team so that there are champions from ...

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