Empower Action In Harold And India By Kotter & Cohen

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The fifth step of the book discuss that change effort must be acted by people. Kotter & Cohen (2012) states that successful implementation to act on change vision requires the removal of barriers. It define empowerment as not giving people new authority and new responsibilities, but to remove barriers for people to implement change. Kotter & Cohen (2012) goes on to say that sometime empowerment comes from not doing everything at once, but finding solution one at a time so as to build confidence to solve the next problem. The story of Harold and Lidia illustrated this when they choose to focus on solving two issues at time versus dozen of issues on their plate. In support of empower action, Konopaske et al. (2018) discusses steps to increase