Change Management Quotes

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing. ~ R.D. Laing

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

Some of those who are resisting change most strongly are only doing so because they care. They're the ones you need to be listening to. ~ A.J. Sheppard

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler. ~ Denis Waitley

God, give us the grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed. ~ Reinhold Niebuhr

IF we don't start to rethink how we are acting now ... We will pay the price later for our "old-stinking-thinking" style ~ Tony Dovale

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

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

Control your own Destiny or somebody else will ~ Jack Welch

Managing change is no longer a one-time initiative, and change management turns to be a strategical ongoing capability in today's digital organizations. ~ Pearl Zhu

The Lesson is, we all need to expose ourselves to the winds of change ~ Andrew S. Grove

Why this reluctance to make the change? We fear the process of reeducation. ~ Isaac Asimov

Deluded leaders and the 'yes men' that follow are barriers to successful organisational change" Peter F Gallagher
Change Management Handbook - The Leadership of Change Volume 3 ~ Peter F Gallagher

Nothing in your world is going to change unless you change. Because even if something changes you won't recognize it. You will still perceive it with an unchanged and out-dated vision. ~ Jacinta Mpalyenkana

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

The gap between thought and action, between belief and will, prevents us solving our most pressing individual and societal problems. ~ Paul Gibbons

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

Most change strategy models are not very strategic – change strategy is an important lynchpin between business strategy and change tactics. ~ Paul Gibbons

Perhaps the difficulty in measuring Change Management is that the very thing we are measuring is changing. ~ Pearl Zhu

In every change, ignite the new levels of creativity from the golden state of mind shake up long-standing beliefs with conviction and allow the sparks to fly. ~ Amit Ray

The sustainable success of digital transformation comes from a carefully planned organisational change management process that meets two key objectives, one being the company culture, and the other one is empowering its employees ~ Enamul Haque

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

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

Innovation happens when you change the game; you bring a different twist to what is currently established and perceived. ~ Pearl Zhu

Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got. ~ Peter Drucker

A poor attitude does not do the body any favours. Smile and the world will smile back at you. ~ Maurice Duffy

At that point where you have decided to upgrade from aspiration to expectation and have begun to visualize an outcome, something incredibly important has happened, you have committed to the process of change. ~ Lorii Myers

Change is disturbing when it is done to us, exhilarating when it is done by us. ~ Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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

The future is coming so fast, we can't possibly predict it; we can only learn to respond quickly. ~ Steve Kerr

The purpose of people-centric Change Management is to build an ongoing change capability. ~ Pearl Zhu

To be sure, the fundamental task of management remains the same: to make people capable of joint performance through common goals, common values, the right structure, and the training and development they need to perform and to respond to change. ~ Peter F. Drucker

At least since the time of In Search of Excellence in 1980, its first blockbuster bestseller, management literature has rejected the model of a business organization as a machine and its people as robots. Managers are exhorted to stop managing and start leading, to empower people, and to master something called "change management." The volume of the volumes has become cacophonous. However, many managers remain rather confused, as there is little consensus about how empowerment is actually supposed to work. ~ Stephen Bungay

The real problem is that most people fear failure, and thus take no action. They really they should be fearful of their thoughts that cause their failure to take action! ~ Tony Dovale

An Appreciative inquiry Conversation is the catalyst for strengths based innovation. ~ Tony Dovale

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

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

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

There's a moment in everybody's life when you're hopeless, just hopeless with hope and trust. And then something happens, something too big to understand, and then everything changes ~ Will Donner

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. ~ Paul Gibbons

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

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

The hard part of ReThinking, is most people don't usually do much normal REAL thinking anyway. They live their lives on automatic reaction. ~ Tony Dovale

When a change management fails, leadership change is brought in. A leadership change will always bring in change management ~ Peter M. Senge

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

Exponential Results Requires Exponential Thinking and High Performance Teamworking with Growth Oriented Mindsets. ~ Tony Dovale

Change Management can become more successful with people at the core of change, the cause of change and the purpose of change. ~ Pearl Zhu

The paradox of change is that while everyone says they want change, not many people actually like it, and even less want to lead it. ~ Sean A. Culey

If your business still needs to change, isn't it likely that your thinking needs to change first? ~ A.J. Sheppard

It is always easier to talk about change than to make it. ~ Alvin Toffler

A hardness to change reveals a hardness of heart. ~ Gary Rohrmayer

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

It is time to euthanize change management. ~ Paul Gibbons

Awareness is the first step of Change Management, it starts from the mindset level. ~ Pearl Zhu

several hundred thousand dollars in a challenging, relevant, and exciting systemic overhaul of our entire organization, focusing on our core competencies while maintaining full and listening cooperation with the communities we are proud to serve. We fully realize that our energetic attempts to mobilize the flawed infrastructure we inherited have been less than totally satisfactory, and hope and trust that our valued and loyal customers will bear with us in the coming months as we interact synergistically with change management in our striving for excellence. That is our mission." An ~ Terry Pratchett

Leaders need to sacrifice "power-over" to get "power-to". ~ Paul Gibbons

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

Change Management = The human side of change. ~ Pearl Zhu

Imagine if the pension funds and endowments that own much of the equity in our financial services companies demanded that those companies revisit the way mortgages were marketed to those without adequate skills to understand the products they were being sold. Management would have to change the way things were done. ~ Eliot Spitzer

By your choices you reveal your commitments. ~ Marlene Chism

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

Your habit of avoiding mental and emotional discomfort is your #1 reason for your being stuck where you are in life. ~ Tony Dovale

The psychological theories that inform day-to-day business practices are comprised mostly of folk-psychology, fads, and myths. ~ Paul Gibbons

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

What has this book got to do with Palaeoanthropology? The short answer is 'not one tiny bit'. But it has everything to do with stress, communication and change, especially for the modern Caveman. ~ Carl Rosier-Jones

Everybody has accepted by now that change is unavoidable. But that still implies that change is like death and taxes - it should be postponed as long as possible and no change would be vastly preferable. But in a period of upheaval, such as the one we are living in, change is the norm. ~ Peter Drucker

Don't ignore your discomforts about a place or person. They are normally vital signs for you to change. ~ Jacinta Mpalyenkana

The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor. ~ Alvin Toffler

Change Management is a journey, not just a one-time project, riding ahead of change curve takes both strategy and methodology. ~ Pearl Zhu

Good change-management
requires the right mix of urgency and empathy. ~ A.J. Sheppard

DevOps and its resulting technical, architectural, and cultural practices represent a convergence of many philosophical and management movements (including): Lean, Theory of Constraints, Toyota production system, resilience engineering, learning organizations, safety culture, Human factors, high-trust management cultures, servant leadership, organizational change management, and Agile methods. ~ Gene Kim

Most change initiatives have token elements of "change management," but these rarely address culture. They are mostly communications plans that inform but do not transform. ~ Larry Senn

If you do not change employee behaviour, you will not get organisational change and performance improvement"​ ~ Peter F. Gallagher

Alternating the thoughtful task of writing with the mindless work of laundry or dish washing will give you the breaks you need for new ideas and insights to occur. If you don't know what comes next in the story ... clean your toilet. Change the bed sheets. For Christ sakes, dust the computer. A better idea will come. ~ Chuck Palahniuk

described the relatively low number of fatalities as a miracle.1 President Bill Clinton ordered his National Security Council to coordinate the response. Government agencies swung into action to find the culprits.The Counterterrorist Center located at the CIA combed its files and queried sources around the world. The National Security Agency (NSA), the huge Defense Department signals collection agency, ramped up its communications intercept network and searched its databases for clues.2 The New York Field Office of the FBI took control of the local investigation and, in the end, set a pattern for future management of terrorist incidents. Four features of this episode have significance for the story of 9/11. 71 ~ Anonymous

What could be more heavier and more impenetrable than a rock, the densest of all forms? And yet some rocks undergo a change in their molecular structure, turn into crystals, and so become transparent to the light. Some carbons, under inconceivable heat and pressure, turn into diamonds, and some heavy minerals into other precious stones. ~ Eckhart Tolle

There are disagreements over whether autism is something that should be always and all the time embraced and celebrated as just a different way to be human, or whether autism sometimes can be really so debilitating to individuals that you want to do something to change those disabilities in them. ~ John Donvan

Nature, philosophy and social issues are the three things that always occupy my mind. You do not have any power over others but can only change yourself. ~ Pawan Kalyan

We hypostatize information into objects. Rearrangement of objects is change in the content of the information; the message has changed. This is a language which we have lost the ability to read. We ourselves are a part of this language; changes in us are changes in the content of the information. We ourselves are information-rich; information enters us, is processed and is then projected outward once more, now in an altered form. We are not aware that we are doing this, that in fact this is all we are doing ~ Philip K. Dick

Your next action could change the world, so make it a good one. ~ A. J. Jacobs

We need words from heaven. Too many words come from the human heart and not from heaven. God wants prophets who will bring words from heaven that will change things on earth. ~ Terry Collins

It is sometimes so bitterly cold in the winter that one says, `The cold is too awful for me to care whether summer is coming or not; the harm outdoes the good.' But with or without our approval, the severe weather does come to an end eventually and one fine morning the wind changes and there is the thaw. When I compare the state of the weather to our state of mind and our circumstances, subject to change and fluctuation like the weather, then I still have some hope that things may get better. ~ Vincent Van Gogh

To forgive ourselves for what we didn't do
Replay a scene over and over in mind
Change it change
Apologizing to our own story handful of soil
I could have planted something better here

To walk without remembering another walk
To wash off the hoped of a darkened day
Make a new one ~ Naomi Shihab Nye

I don't think I'm going to change jobs at this point. ~ Colin Hay

If you change your way of thinking about failure, you can transform your weaknesses into strengths & realize opportunities for growth. ~ Tanya Masse

But what no one tells you is that even when you decide which world you will live in, the world may not always see you as you would wish. Sometimes it demands that you be so outrageous as to transcend your very skin. You can change your name. Your eye colour. Make yourself a myth and live within it, so that you belong to no one but yourself. ~ Roshani Chokshi

I do a lot of inspirational talks for kids, to motivate them to change their lives and give them hope. ~ Adam Beach

When you realize the awesome power of words, you can change lives. ~ Tammy Kling

In December 2011, I will be opening up my production house, Sharmeen Obaid Films, and aspire to change the way Pakistanis approach nonfiction storytelling. There are thousands of stories to be found here. ~ Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

You have to plan ahead so that rather then seek revenge for the horse's misbehavior, you see his aggressive behavior shaping up and can redirect it. You change his mind before he's acted and move on to something else. ~ Buck Brannaman

People are allowed to change for the better, you know. But it's kind of hard when you won't let them. ~ Lindsey Ouimet

Hoping a situation will change keeps you at a distance from your true feelings-sadness, anger, fear. Each of these feelings is best appreciated up close. Feel them deeply, and they will cease to bother you. Hope they'll go away, and they'll bother you all day. ~ Gay Hendricks

Imperious, angry, furious, extreme in all things, with a disturbance in the moral imagination unlike any the world has ever known - there you have me in a nutshell: and one more thing, kill me or take me as I am, for I will not change ~ Marquis De Sade

Conspiracy theory is the ultimate refuge of the powerless. If you cannot change your own life, it must be that some greater force controls the world. ~ Roger Cohen

People's lives change dramatically over such a long time period, and I think that if you're still vital, and you're still interested in writing and things like that, of course your music evolves and reflects where you are in your life. ~ Pat Benatar

Sometimes your fall is not caused by your enemies, but it is caused by your stupid actions, behavior, and bad attitude. ~ De Philosopher DJ Kyos

I would never change having loved your mother. In fact, I should have never hidden it, because it's only when things remain in the shadows that they have the power to be used against one. The lesson I learned far too late is one I hope you'll embrace - live your life as if everyone will discover what you do and who you are. If no one holds your secrets, there's nothing to compel you to make choices that are not your own. - Will Shaw ~ April White

Trust yourself to do what you really feel like doing, and what you feel like doing will change. Don't, and it will plague you. ~ David Allen

Change can be terrifying, but I've come to expect that God has an even greater adventure awaiting me than the one I leave behind. ~ Toni Sorenson