kotter

kotter is a skill for Claude Code from ironyjk/strategy-frameworks. It costs 35 tokens per session (4,673 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to Kotter's eight-step model for leading organizational change, from creating urgency through making new practices part of the culture. The model is a sequence of activities for helping people adopt a major change.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan transformation programs, build support for a change, remove barriers, create early wins, and embed new ways of working.
Why use it?
It helps explain why change efforts lose momentum, such as unclear direction, ignored obstacles, or declaring success too early. The ordered steps provide a structure for planning and sustaining change.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Part of the strategy-frameworks plugin — 27 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan transformation programs, build support for a change, remove barriers, create early wins, and embed new ways of working.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ironyjk/strategy-frameworks/kotter
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add ironyjk/strategy-frameworks --skill kotter
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ironyjk/strategy-frameworks

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install strategy-frameworks, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 27 skills.

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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,673 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00035 $0.04673
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.02337
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00935
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00467

Measured 8d ago against content hash ef0eba322b2d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kotter scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 8d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

kotter/SKILL.md · 474 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 474 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Kotter's 8-Step Change Model

Why 70% of Change Efforts Fail — 8 Common Errors

John Kotter's research at Harvard Business School identified that 70% of organizational change initiatives fail. The root causes trace to eight predictable errors:

# Error (실패 원인) Consequence
1 Allowing too much complacency (현상 안주 허용) No one feels the need to change
2 Failing to create a powerful guiding coalition (추진력 있는 연합 부재) Change has no political or organizational muscle
3 Underestimating the power of vision (비전의 힘 과소평가) Direction unclear, people confused or resistant
4 Under-communicating the vision (비전 소통 부족) Even a good vision dies if people don't hear it repeatedly
5 Permitting obstacles to block the vision (장애물 방치) Structural, systemic, or human barriers kill momentum
6 Failing to create short-term wins (단기 성과 미창출) People lose faith — "this isn't working"
7 Declaring victory too soon (너무 이른 승리 선언) Regression to old habits; change doesn't stick
8 Neglecting to anchor in culture (문화 정착 실패) New behaviors evaporate when pressure is off

Key insight: These errors are sequential. Skipping early steps or rushing later ones produces the same result — failure.


The 8 Steps — Overview

  ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
  │          KOTTER'S 8-STEP CHANGE MODEL               │
  │                                                     │
  │  Step 8 ──▶ 🏛️  Institute Change (변화의 제도화)     │
  │       ▲                                             │
  │  Step 7 ──▶ 🚀 Sustain Acceleration (가속화 유지)    │
  │       ▲                                             │
  │  Step 6 ──▶ 🏆 Generate Short-term Wins (단기 성과)  │
  │       ▲                                             │
  │  Step 5 ──▶ 🔓 Enable Action (장애물 제거)           │
  │       ▲                                             │
  │  Step 4 ──▶ 🙋 Enlist Volunteer Army (자발적 참여)   │
  │       ▲                                             │
  │  Step 3 ──▶ 🔭 Form Strategic Vision (비전 수립)     │
  │       ▲                                             │
  │  Step 2 ──▶ 🤝 Build Guiding Coalition (추진팀 구성) │
  │       ▲                                             │
  │  Step 1 ──▶ 🔥 Create Urgency (위기감 조성)          │
  └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

  ◀── CREATE CLIMATE ──▶◀── ENGAGE & ENABLE ──▶◀── IMPLEMENT & SUSTAIN ──▶
       (Steps 1-3)            (Steps 4-5)            (Steps 6-8)

Read the full file on GitHub · 474 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 474 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A ef0eba322b2d

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kotter is a skill published in the GitHub repository ironyjk/strategy-frameworks (11 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 4,673 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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