Quotes about change-management

Changes are inevitable and not always controllable. What can be controlled is how you manage, react to and work through the change process.

In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

To thrive in this new age of hyper-change and growing uncertainty, it is now an imperative to learn a new competency — how to accurately anticipate the future.

Success comes from the inside out. In order to change what is on the outside, you must first change what is on the inside.

Want creativity? Diversify your experience to develop your creative muscles.

We are all beautiful instruments of God. He created many notes in music so that we would not be stuck playing the same song. Be music always. Keep changing the keys, tones, pitch, and volume of each of the songs you create along your journey and play on. Nobody will ever reach ultimate perfection in this lifetime, but trying to achieve it is a full-time job. Start now and don't stop. Make your book of life a musical. Never abandon obligations, but have fun leaving behind a colorful legacy. Never

A hardness to change reveals a hardness of heart.

You must embrace change before change erases you.

Two questions I'm pondering:1. If money didn't exist, would you still chase your dreams?2. If money didn't exist, would you still keep your job?If the answer is "YES" to both, you're on track. If the answer is "NO" to either, what needs to change?

change is a constant in life – maybe the only constant there is – and sudden change is not unusual. Thus an important inquiry is: How can I make change a friend rather than source of fear?

Change is not always easy when patterns in our lives have existed so long.

Are you in love with your idea more than your reality? Change that.

The ego might resist change until a person’s level of discomfort becomes unbearable. A person can employ logic to overcome the ego’s defense mechanism and intentionally integrate needed revisions in a person’s obsolete or ineffective beliefs and behavior patterns. The subtle sense that something is amiss in a person’s life can lead to a gradual or quick alteration in a person’s conscious thoughts and outlook on life. Resisting change can prolong unhappiness whereas implementing change can establ

Change is essential for survival. All life forms must adapt to their fluctuating circumstances. All form of life result from the process of variation, mutation, competition, and inheritance. The universe is in a constant state of chaos. We each have chaos implanted into our bones. Nature wires all of us for change.

Life is a dance more than it is an assertion and there is more health in dynamism or fluidity than there is rigidity and stasis.

Change is disturbing when it is done to us, exhilarating when it is done by us.

Leaders are the human catalyst that overcomes our desire for the status quo.

When a change management fails, leadership change is brought in. A leadership change will always bring in change management

Unless people are convinced about what you are asking them to do, they are not going to make it happen.

ReThink culture, because it is the foundation of all strategic success.

Many call this process 'the destruction of nature.' But it's not really destruction, it's change. Nature cannot be destroyed.

Certain barriers do require a critical mass of action at the right time to overcome the inertia that is greater than incremental change.

The things of your life arrived in their own time, like a train you had to catch. Sometimes this was easy, all you had to do was step onto it, the train was plush and comfortable and full of people smiling at you in a hush, and a conductor who punched your ticket and tousled your head with his big hand, saying, Ain’t you pretty, ain’t you the prettiest girl now, lucky lady taking a big train trip with your daddy, while you sank into the dreamy softness of your seat and sipped ginger ale from a c

Growing a culture requires a good storyteller. Changing a culture requires a persuasive editor.

We have minds that are equipped for certainty, linearity and short-term decisions, that must instead make long-term decisions in a non-linear, probabilistic world.

Leaders need to sacrifice "power-over" to get "power-to".

Most businesses would profit greatly from just applying Change Management 101 well.

It is time to euthanize change management.

The notion of "business as usual" is a harmful myth.

Transformation rarely happens accidentally.

If your business still needs to change, isn’t it likely that your thinking needs to change first?

Knowing your feelings won't change the facts, but knowing the facts can change your feelings.

Master Yourself and you master your environment! Such is the nature of wisdom.

We must be drawn by the idea of where we want to go more than we dislike the idea of all the work it is going to take to get there.

When business leaders talk about the next quarter, they ought to sometimes be talking about the next quarter century.

Every organisation, not just business, needs 1 core competence: Tactical execution

WHY has no value, if you cannot rethink resourcefulness in a limited context.

Like time-management, change-management, doesn't really exist antmore... . Today's most valuable mindset must include the SWIFTA framework the be a change-driver.

Strategy has no value if your culture and leadership mindset are wrong

Change shouldn’t be treated as a singular occurrence when it is an ongoing, continued process and dynamic capability within the organization.