Change Leadership Quotes

That which a team does not want to discuss, it most needs to discuss. ~ Paul Gibbons

If you want to do something that really changes someone's life, the best thing you can do is make the person you're trying to help a participant in the process. ~ John Stahl-Wert

We need leadership books that offer information as well as inspiration. Pop leadership is one of the most destructive forces today. ~ Paul Gibbons

When the world is in the midst of change, when adversity and opportunity are almost indistinguishable, this is the time for visionary leadership and when leaders need to look beyond the survival needs of those they're serving. ~ Chip Conley

I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it; it's more like jazz. There is more improvisation. Someone once wrote that the sound of surprise is jazz, and if there's any one thing that we must try to get used to in this world, it's surprise and the unexpected. Truly, we are living in world where the only thing that's constant is change. ~ Warren G. Bennis

Humanity can not afford to have 21st Century businesses run on 20th Century science, and (worse) pseudoscience. ~ Paul Gibbons

Leadership experts and the public alike extol the virtues of transformational leaders - those who set out bold objectives and take risks to change the world. We tend to downplay 'transactional' leaders, whose goals are more modest, as mere managers. ~ Joseph Nye

Just stamping out anti-science and bad science will eliminate an enormous amount of business waste ~ Paul Gibbons

The micro facial expression of contempt when engaging leaders about preparing for their organisation's change is often the norm, matched only by their leadership of change knowledge ~ Peter F Gallagher

Millions of young Americans have graduated from college during the Obama presidency, ready to use their gifts and get moving in life. Half of them can't find the work they studied for, or any work at all. So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years? ~ Paul Ryan

Let's start a revolution, a revolution with no gun, but words and action to inspire the next generation. The truth should make us better human beings, it shouldn't create enemies out of ignorance. "IGNORANCE" got Liberia way, way back, because some of us were blind back then and failed to see the clear picture before. Before it was the Americo VS the Native. Today is corrupt educated or not so educated Liberian brothers and sisters against those people who they call illiterate. STAND FOR CHANGE AND SAY NO! ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! ~ Henry Johnson Jr

I want to use my position of leadership to help move along at a faster pace what I believe and know the Obama administration wants to do around the urgency of climate change. ~ Kamala Harris

The change "grief cycle", for some people, may be excitement, enthusiasm, engagement, effort, and excellence. ~ Paul Gibbons

It was a hallmark of Nelson Mandela's leadership that being open to change made him appear not weaker, but even stronger. ~ Klaus Schwab

The new leader is one who commits people to action, who converts followers into leaders, and who may convert leaders into agents of change. ~ Warren G. Bennis

Many leaders get to the top of an organisation with skills less associated to leadership, but more the ability to eliminate greater competition on the way ~ Peter F Gallagher

To change you must want to change, you must be responsible for the change, and then take action to make the change. It is your race to run so you need to choose your road wisely. ~ Thomas Narofsky

China and India will take the global leadership on climate change: they are suffering for it. ~ Malcolm Turnbull

If you change your words to positive reinforcement, the negative reactions will lose their power ~ Bluenscottish

It's important to remember that peace, liberty and freedom changes many aspects in our thoughts as far as life is concerned. ~ Auliq Ice

Discontented people are exactly the kind of people that made America so Great. Sometimes it's good to be frustrated; it leads to change. ~ Bradford Winters

There is an inexorable correlation between leadership and change. ~ Andy Stanley

In leadership you can make the biggest impact by first working on yourself. ~ Chris Hutchinson

Denmark needs change, Denmark needs to move on and Denmark needs my leadership. ~ Helle Thorning-Schmidt

We are all cosmopolitan, what we are born into is an accident of birth, respect for difference, growth and learning is who we are ~ Peter F Gallagher

I can say with absolute certainty that I will run for one of two offices: my state Senate seat or for the governor. I'm still trying to decide, but I do think people are ready for a change from the partisan, very fractured leadership we have in Texas. ~ Wendy Davis

I feel fantastically excited that we have a leader who fought for the leadership without compromising his quite challenging view that the party has to change. ~ Francis Maude

Change can be your friend;
complacency is always your enemy. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Change happens when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change. ~ Tony Robbins

I regularly invite educators and leaders to send me their questions, and hundreds of them do so every month. The most common question, however, is one to which my response is probably most disappointing. The question is "How do I get better buy-in from my staff before I implement some critically needed changes?" The answer is "You don't. ~ Douglas B. Reeves

A typical response when starting a change journey and engaging organisational leaders, it is not us, it is the employees below me that have the problem with change and improvement ~ Peter F Gallagher

The truth is that no internal reviews or congressional hearings will change the Secret Service's broken management culture. It needs better leadership. ~ Ronald Kessler

After the November elections gave Republicans control of the Senate, voters made clear they wanted change, we were hopeful our leaders got the voters ' message. However, after our speaker forced through the( spending bill) by passing it with Democratic votes and without time to read it, it seemed clear that we needed new leadership. ~ Louie Gohmert

Teachers create and transform energy. They are the dynamos of educational change. ~ Andy Hargreaves

Psychological pseudoscience dies hard, especially when there are commercial interests at stake. ~ Paul Gibbons

Life is all about 'Continuous Never Ending Change and Improvement' (CNECI) as we grow, develop and regenerate ~ Peter F. Gallagher

One of the problems in the biotech world is the lack of women in leadership roles, and I'd like to see that change by walking the walk. ~ Jennifer Doudna

Progress does not occur without change. ~ John C. Maxwell

Let the government not be an instructor but a parent who loves and adjusts to the needs of the nation, But remember a parent does what makes things look good to the entire family without segregation. ~ Auliq Ice

For me, leadership is making a difference. It's using your agency to bring about change. ~ Melanne Verveer

The great task of statesmanship is to apply past lessons to new situations, to draw correct analogies to understand and act upon present forces, to recognise the need for change ... ~ Malcolm Fraser

The change question all leaders should be able to answer
Do you have a change vision, are you aligned on your strategic objectives, are you a high performing team and does you team have change leadership skills to lead the change or improvement that your organisation is facing? ~ Peter F Gallagher

Leaders make things better and that requires change. ~ Andy Stanley

Dr. King's leadership reaffirmed the promise of our democracy: that everyday people, working together, have the power to change our government and our institutions for the better. ~ Maria Cantwell

Don't buy into the campaign that people don't like change. We are built for it. ~ Stacy Feiner

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better. ~ Harry S. Truman

The most damaging cognitive bias is overconfidence (illusory superiority), making leaders use their "gut" when they should be more rational. ~ Paul Gibbons

Fixed mindset leaders will quickly contaminate an organisation by killing growth and creativity, as well as promoting incompetence based on their likeness. This cycle will be replicated unless shareholders intervene ruthlessly ~ Peter F Gallagher

If world problems feel too big to tackle, think small. Step by step. Small wins build confidence, lead the way to change. ~ Rosabeth Moss Kanter

To achieve this incredible feat of building Nigeria, we must all truly desire to see it happen ~ Fela Durotoye

We're trained to see the world in terms of charismatic organizations and charismatic people. That's who we look to for leadership and change, for transformation. We're awaiting the next J.F.K., the next Martin Luther King, the next Gandhi, the next Nelson Mandela. ~ Paul Hawken

Libertarians believe that any government interference is bad. Anyone with a brain knows that climate change needs governmental leadership, and they can smell this is bad news for their philosophy. Their ideology is so strongly held that, remarkably, it's overcoming the facts. ~ Jeremy Grantham

When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change. ~ Wadah Khanfar

If you can intervene early in the lives of girls here and in other parts of the world, you can begin to change the prospects for the future. ~ Jane Fonda

She has compared me to my sister every single day of my life, so why should I expect that to change now that she's dead? ~ Erika L. Sánchez

Well ... I had braces and I had to wear headgear! I loved my braces, actually. For me, they were like a piece of jewelry! Instead of the silver or pewter I had gold braces. It was so much fun, I loved them. I got to change the colors and stuff and I had the rubber bands. ~ Jordin Sparks

Look ahead

It's tempting to go through life looking in the rearview mirror. When you are always looking back, you become focused on what didn't work out, on who hurt you, and on the mistakes you've made, such as:
"If only I would have finished college."
"If only I'd spent more time with my children."
"If only I'd been raised in a better environment."
As long as you're living in regret, focused on the negative things of the past, you won't move ahead to the bright future God has in store. You need to let go of what didn't work out. Let go of your hurts and pains. Let go of your mistakes and failures.
You can't do anything about the past, but you can do something about right now. Whether it happened twenty minutes ago or twenty years ago, let go of the hurts and failures and move forward. If you keep bringing the negative baggage from yesterday into today, your future will be poisoned.
You can't change what's happened to you. You may have had an unfair past, but you don't have to have an unfair future. You may have had a rough start, but it's not how you start, it's how you finish.
Don't let a hurtful relationship sour your life. Don't let a bad break, a betrayal, a divorce, or a bad childhood cause you to settle for less in life. Move forward and God will pay you back.
Move forward and God will vindicate you. Move forward and you'll come into a new beginning. Nothing that's happened to you is a surprise to God. The loss of a l ~ Joel Osteen

YOU don't know her secret," Win said to me. "Should I?" Win shrugged. "It's bad?" I asked. "Very," Win said. "Then maybe I don't want to know." Two days before I learned the secret she'd kept buried for a decade - the seemingly personal secret that would not only devastate the two of us but change the world forever - Terese Collins called me at five AM, pushing me from one quasi-erotic dream into another. She simply said, "Come to Paris." I had not heard her voice in, what, seven years maybe, and the line had static and she didn't bother with hello or any preamble. I stirred and said, "Terese? Where are you?" "In a cozy hotel on the Left Bank called d'Aubusson. You'll love it here. There's an Air France flight leaving tonight at seven." I ~ Harlan Coben

A desire to succeed in politics is propelled by these two seemingly contradictory forces, which frequently change places and sometimes coexist: to save others and to save oneself. ~ Madeleine M. Kunin

Politics is good; when it works properly, disagreements get solved without people beating each other up. But when a regime knows its days are numbered, there's always the chance it may use its position to change the rules and make the debate it is losing irrelevant. ~ Vernor Vinge

The American president has a peculiar leadership responsibility to speak out for freedom. ~ Ted Cruz

You have to accept the fact that not all your decisions are going to be right - and when they are wrong, you have to own it right away. I try not to have an emotional connection or investment in the decisions I make so that when they need to change, I can quickly move on to: 'How do we fix this?' ~ Lynn Jurich

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them. ~ John C. Maxwell

Knowing what is right is not the same as doing what is right. ~ Christine Caine

My darkness reaches out and fumbles at a typewriter with its tongs. Your darkness reaches out with your tongs and grasps a book. There are twenty modes of change, filter and translation between us. What an extravagant coincidence it would be if the exact quality, the translucent sweetness of her cheek, the very living curve of bone between the eyebrow and hair should survive the passage! How can you share the quality of my terror in the blacked-out cell when I can only remember it and not re-create it for myself? No. Not with you. Or only with you, in part. For you were not there. ~ William Golding

Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow. ~ Woody Guthrie

It's hard to watch people change, but it's even harder to remember who they used to be. ~ Wiz Khalifa

I rewrite a great deal. I'm always fiddling, always changing something. I'll write a few words - then I'll change them. I add. I subtract. I work and fiddle and keep working and fiddling, and I only stop at the deadline. ~ Ellen Goodman

A little present from my run-in with a sword. Or should I say from when the sword had a run-in with me?" His eyes lit up.
"Want to see the scar? It's cool." He started pulling his shirt out of his pants.
"Janco," Ari warned. "We're not supposed to be fraternizing with the Sitians."
"But she's not Sitian. Right, Yelena? You haven't gone south on us, have you?" Janco's voice held mock horror.
"Because if you have I can't give you your present."
I took my switchblade out, showing the inscription to Janco. "What about 'Sieges weathered, fight together, friends forever'? Does that change if I become an official southerner?"
Janco rubbed the hair on his chin, considering.
"No," Ari said. "You could change into a goat and it would still apply. ~ Maria V. Snyder

Here's another definition I like, for different reasons: "An act of violence would be any act that inflicts physical or psychological harm on another."388 I like this one because its inclusiveness reminds us of the ubiquity of violence, and thus I think demystifies violence a bit. So, you say you oppose violence? Well, in that case you oppose life. You oppose all change. The important question becomes: What types of violence do you oppose? ~ Derrick Jensen

I'm very proud of my pro-life record, and I've always adopted the idea that, the position that the method of conception doesn't change the definition of life. ~ Paul Ryan

In my view, our approach to global warming exemplifies everything that is wrong with our approach to the environment. We are basing our decisions on speculation, not evidence. Proponents are pressing their views with more PR than scientific data. Indeed, we have allowed the whole issue to be politicized-red vs blue, Republican vs Democrat. This is in my view absurd. Data aren't political. Data are data. Politics leads you in the direction of a belief. Data, if you follow them, lead you to truth. ~ Michael Crichton

Woodrow Wilson says that if you want to make enemies, try to change something! Well, I think there is an easier way to make enemies: Tell the truths! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

But you cannot change your nature. If you are a lonely creature, this cannot be undone. Something will always crop up to remind you. ~ Adrienne Celt

The vagaries of the industry and show business itself would not lead one to conclude a lengthy career - because things change. Popularities come and go. The tragedy of it is that somebody like Robin Williams should suffer from that, and be driven to commit suicide. If ever there was an untimely, unfair death, it was him. ~ Chris Stein

People tend to look at their businesses from the inside out - that is, they get so focused on making and selling their products that they lose awareness of the needs and buying behaviors of their customers. ~ Lawrence Bossidy

When you can change something just by saying a word, that is magic. ~ Catherynne M. Valente

When you are reluctant to change, think of the beauty of autumn. ~ V V Brown

It is an act of homophobia to believe that people in the LGBT community are either too sinful to respond to God's call on their life, or to believe that people in the LGBT community have a fixed nature that will never, according to the blustering, unfounded, and uncharitable declarations of secular psychology, change by the power of God's command. What does God change? Our heart. That is where it all starts. ~ Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

There were occasional cold moments when she thought that she must somehow, even now, check herself on the fatal slope towards marriage, somewhere at the back of her mind was the belief that she would never get married, there would be time to change her mind later. And then the thought of what would happen if she did chilled her. ~ Doris Lessing

Son: 'Mum,
Tell me about love, how will I know if she's the one?
Mum: ' son, if there's one thing I could teach about love its to Embrace it when it touches your heart, & to release it when it's stagnating your journey. Love is not a maybe thing & if it doesn't change you in someway it's not worthy of your essence. ~ Nikki Rowe

She told me the first picture I should take should be of something beautiful and I should allow it to change me." "What did you take a picture of?" His eyes shifted to the window. He stared out into the clouds and his voice softened, "You. ~ Brittainy C. Cherry

If we do not like what is happening to us, it is a sure sign that we are in need of a change of mental diet. For man, we are told, lives not by bread alone but by every Word that proceeds from the mouth of God. And having discovered the mouth of God to be the mind of man, a mind which lives on Words or inner talking, we should feed into our minds only loving, noble thoughts. For with Words or inner talking we build our world. Let love's lordly hand raise your hunger and thirst to all that is noble and of good report, and let your mind starve e'er you raise your hand to a cup love did not fill or a bowl love did not bless. That you may never again have to say, What have I said? What have I done, O All Powerful Human Word? ~ Neville Goddard

Every prime minister has a whole series of networks, and there are official formal networks and there are unofficial informal networks. I'm lucky in that I have good official formal networks, starting with my own office, the leadership group, the cabinet and the party room. ~ Tony Abbott

We cannot change God. God is unchangeable. If changes are to be made, they must be made in us. ~ R.C. Sproul