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When you're leading, you're generally trying to lead change, and I think it was Roy Amara, who said about technology, "We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run." And I think the same applies to change within an organization. -- Harry West
Change is not always easy, but with patience and perseverance, we can find the good in change. -- Kim Yannayon
Success depends on a willingness to change. -- Debasish Mridha
Change is unavoidable. You change either to stay ahead or to catch up. -- Mike Hawkins
To survive and succeed, every organization will have to turn itself into a change agent -- Peter Drucker
Change is the essence of life; change is the great challenge, the great constant. Change is the ultimate teller of tales. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
Change is hard, difficult, painful, and often messy -- David W. Earle
With increasing rate of changes, the organization needs to be adapted in such a way that it can respond effectively to the dynamic changes and to the variety in the environment. -- Pearl Zhu
Do not bless all the changes; change must be progressive; if not, we must not call it as change; the correct name is deterioration or decaying! Beware of the changes! Any change which is not progressive is just a rotting! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Change is the process by which the future invades our lives. -- Alvin Toffler
Simply put, this is one insight we heard echoed by tens of thousands of great managers:
People don't change that much.
Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out.
Try to draw out what was left in.
That is hard enough. -- Marcus Buckingham
Change is inevitable, continuous, and constant. Expectations of anything or anyone remaining the same can only lead to struggles and hardships.
Willing Change -- Jane Collins
Change is the end of something you know and the beginning of something else that you don't know. Something new that holds opportunities. -- Kholoud Yasser
Change shouldn't be treated as a singular occurrence when it is an ongoing, continued process and dynamic capability within the organization. -- Pearl Zhu
Knowing how to deal with change effectively is a primary requirement for living successfully in perhaps the most exciting time in all of human history -- Brian Tracy
Change was a scary concept. Whether you were ready for it or not, sometimes it crept up on you, ambushing without warning, and no matter if you wanted it or not, you had to figure out how to accept it and adapt to its insistent nature. -- Erica Kiefer
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change. -- Brian Tracy
In navigating change, some of us take temporary actions and expect to obtain
permanent results. -- Ngina Otiende
Change for the better ... Let your change be purposeful and determined. Never repeat steps that always make you fail. Never change a step that brings you closer to excellence! You got to make a change! -- Israelmore Ayivor
People are too keen to follow standard preconceptions of how organisations should work. All too often, we feel that we are unable to make changes and so hope that someone, somewhere in your organisation knows what we are doing and what the overall aim is. -- Ricardo Semler
Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity. -- Joyce Meyer
Principle of Change #4: Planning for change is planning to succeed. -- Brett Blumenthal
Change is simply a shift of the "Old Way - Chaos - New Way" to do things. -- Pearl Zhu
Change to me is like an old friend. It's not my enemy anymore. And I know it will keep coming back to visit again and again to teach me something new. -- Phyllis George
Are you on the eve of change? Embrace it. Accept it. Don't resist it. Change is not only a part of life, change is a necessary part of God's strategy. To use us to change the world, he alters our assignments. -- Max Lucado
Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable. -- William Pollard
Change brings opportunities. On the other hand, change can be confusing. -- Michael Porter
Change makers take risks and are ready to die for excellence than to give excuses and live for mediocrity. -- Israelmore Ayivor
Far more difficult than implementing change is figuring out what works, understanding why it works, grasping when to change, and knowing when not to. -- James C. Collins
Change is REFINEMENT. Change is GROWTH. Change is MOVEMENT. Change is OPPORTUNITY. -- Jeffrey Gitomer
You need strong leadership to effectuate change, and the easiest way is to keep everything status quo. And sometimes changes are necessary. If not, you build up too much potential energy. -- Ronnie Chan
How are you managing the velocity of change? -- Jim Blasingame
Change: How much do you want it? Change: How much do you need it? -- Asa Don Brown
Change is not something you do. Change is something you allow. -- Vironika Tugaleva
Change is like a river: nothing is the same, even for an instant. Everything is continually moving through the six stages of change: about to come into being, beginning, expanding, approaching maximum potential, peaking, and finally, passing its peak and flowing into its new condition. -- Wu Wei
Change is the norm; unless an organization sees that its task is to lead change, that organization will not survive. -- Peter Drucker
Every successful organization has to make the transition from a world defined primarily by repetition to one primarily defined by change. This is the biggest transformation in the structure of how humans work together since the Agricultural Revolution. -- Bill Drayton
Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling thier missions. -- Charles Garfield
None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives. -- Kathleen Norris
When you can't cope with change, you feel overwhelmed, and you look for a simple solution. -- Klaus Schwab
If you want to continue leading, you must continue changing. -- Howard G. Hendricks
Change is the watchword of progression. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
You must be on top of change or change will be on top of you. -- Mark Victor Hansen
The No. 1 criticism most managers get is that they don't ever change or wait too long to make changes ... It's very simple: Either things are performing or they're not. And if it's not performing, we have to make changes. -- Tim Armstrong
Designing and implementing a strategy for change is a waste of time until you have discovered and embraced the current reality. If you don't know where you really are, it is impossible to get where you need to be. -- Andy Stanley
Leadership is about coping with change -- John P. Kotter
The process of the growth of a team is the process of changing people. -- Sunday Adelaja
The business of selling is not just about matching viable solutions to the customers that require them. It's equally about managing the change process the customer will need to go through to implement the solution and achieve the value promised by the solution -- Jeff Thull
No matter how successful you are, change is always good. There can never be a status quo. When you have no money you can't afford long-term solutions, only short-term ones. You have to always be upgrading. Otherwise you're fucked. -- Michael Lewis
Unless the company becomes obsessed with constant change for the better, gradual change for the worse usually goes unnoticed. -- Vineet Nayar
Change is inevitable and the ultimate way of life. Change creates new opportunities for new beauties in life. -- Debasish Mridha
Managers tend to treat organizations as if they are infinitely plastic. They hire and fire, merge, downsize, terminate programs, add capacities. But there are limits to the shifts that organizations can absorb. -- Kevin Kelly
Your strategy for success must constantly move, change, and evolve. -- Ziad K. Abdelnour
Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid. -- Aberjhani
Kotter and Cohen observed that, in almost all successful change efforts, the sequence of change is not ANALYZE-THINK-CHANGE, but rather SEE-FEEL-CHANGE. You -- Chip Heath
Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you're likely to have issues. -- Larry Page
Change is not a one-time explosion of opportunity. It is a slow burning fire that needs to be tended constantly. -- Jason Harvey
In any honest analysis, change is the basis of fear, the idea of something new, of some paradigm that is unfamiliar, that is beyond our experiences so competent that we cannot even truly predict where is will lead us. -- R.a. Salvatore
Navigating change is the new stability. -- Sharon Weil
View change as the one constant in your life. Welcome it. Expect it. Anticipate it. -- Denis Waitley
Don't fear change; embrace it! -- Debasish Mridha
Change capability is one of the strategic capabilities which underpin successful execution and move the organization from efficiency to agility. -- Pearl Zhu
Change is the law. Stability and consistency are illusions, temporary in any case, a heroic achievement of human will and persistence at best. When we want things to stay the same, we'll always wind up playing catch-up. -- John Brockman
Change is the very fabric of our time. -- David Brin
Long-term commitment to new learning and new philosophy is required of any management that seeks transformation. The timid and the fainthearted, and the people that expect quick results, are doomed to disappointment. -- W. Edwards Deming
To be successful one must make change an ongoing process. Quality is a race with no finish line. -- David T. Kearns
Businesses always have opportunities to improve service, product lines, manufacturing techniques, and the like, and obviously these opportunities should be seized. But a business that constantly encounters major change also encounters many chances for major error -- Warren Buffett
For many people, change is more threatening than challenging. They see it as the destroyer of what is familiar and comfortable rather than the creator of what is new and exciting. -- Nido R. Qubein
Change happens when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change. -- Tony Robbins
Unlocking individual change starts and ends with the mental maps people carry in their heads-how they see the organization and their jobs. -- Ralph Christensen
We know that leadership is very much related to change. As the pace of change accelerates, there is naturally a greater need for effective leadership. -- John P. Kotter
Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change. -- James C. Collins
Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full time job. -- Adlai E. Stevenson Ii
Embrace change, even when the change slaps you in the face. -- Walter Breuning
I don't just talk about change. I actually have a plan to execute change and make it happen. -- Mitt Romney
Learn to adapt. Things change, circumstances change. Adjust yourself and your efforts to what it is presented to you so you can respond accordingly. Never see change as a threat, because it can be an opportunity to learn, to grow, evolve and become a better person. -- Rodolfo Costa
Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk. -- William Arthur Ward
Change is a quintessential element of progress. Without change, progress is non-existent. -- Abhijit Naskar
Change happens when you understand what you want to change so deeply that there is no reason to do anything but act in your own best interest. -- Geneen Roth
If everyone is a changemaker, there's no way a problem can outrun a solution -- Bill Drayton
Change, even if unwelcome, forces us to reevaluate what our best options are. Those times of transitions are great opportunities to look for recurring patterns in your life and make adjustments to build on the good and reduce the bad. -- Dan Miller
Change is a great and horrible thing, and people love it or hate it at the same time. Without change, however, you just don't move. -- Marc Jacobs
If you have these two things - the willingness to change, and the acceptance of everything as it comes, you will have all you need to work with. -- Charlotte Selver
Follow the customer, if they change, we change. -- Terry Leahy
But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of central authority. So it is best to manage the bottom-up change rather than try to institute it from the top down. -- Kevin Kelly
Change needs practice. And practice needs patience. -- John Fairclough
When we talk about change, we, the business leaders, have to implement it. We have to look at what we're not doing and what we should be doing. -- Ofra Strauss
Change helps you to adapt to various situations that will come your way. -- Sunday Adelaja
The prevailing style of management must undergo transformation. A system can not understand itself. The transformation requires a view from outside. -- W. Edwards Deming
Any time there is change, there is opportunity. So it is paramount that an organization get energized rather than paralyzed. -- Jack Welch
For the timid, change is frightening; for the comfortable, change is threatening; but for the confident, change is opportunity. -- Nido Qubein
There are only two things that I would do when there's change, either I stay and embrace it or I let go before I defeat its purpose. -- Laarni Venus Marie Giango
Change is the part of the very definition of life. The world changes, and flourishing demands constant growth and life-long learning. -- Paul Gibbons
Change is vital, improvement the logical form of change. -- James Cash Penney
Change is like a charging cow. Don't ignore it - milk it -- Andrew Leigh
We have to be prepared for change. -- Paulo Coelho
Change is just the vehicle to elevate you toward the ultimate destinations. -- Pearl Zhu
Incremental change is better than ambitious failure ... Success feeds on itself. -- Tal Ben-Shahar
There is so much inherent drama in the matter of change. Disappointment in yourself and others, coping with the fact that life is essentially shipwreck, becoming a person you yourself could not imagine yourself to be, for good and for bad, and then ultimately there is the basic matter of loss. -- Jane Hamilton
Change is inevitable, and when it happens, the wisest response is not to wail or whine but to suck it up and deal with it. -- Daniel H. Pink
