Change Management Theory Quotes

It is very humbling to see my own character defects in someone who annoys me. At the end of the day, I realize they have actually prompted positive change in me. ~ Auliq Ice

Stakeholders have varying levels of responsibility and authority when participating on a project. This level can change over the course of the project's life cycle. Their involvement may ~ Project Management Institute

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

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

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

up to five hundred genes change their output when a person makes positive lifestyle changes, such as improved diet, moderate exercise, meditation, and stress management. ~ Deepak Chopra

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

We did everything correctly, following the established plan approved by management!' Just as under socialism--we do and did everything correctly, yet life, the world, continues to collapse beneath our feet like a reactor that has entered a runaway state of nuclear meltdown. Is there any need to explain what those two great liberating words mean: chain reaction? ~ Georgi Tenev

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

Maybe we should teach schoolchildren probability theory and investment risk management. ~ Andrew Lo

I've concluded that getting the categories right is an absolutely crucial step to building useful management theory, and unfortunately too few writers do this. You've got to engage in serious scholarship, and then figure out how to write it in a way that lots of people can understand. ~ Clayton Christensen

In 1989, I was awarded the Von Neumann Prize in Operations Research Theory by the Operations Research Society of America and The Institute of Management Sciences. They cited my works in the areas of portfolio theory, sparse matrix techniques and the SIMSCRIPT programming language. ~ Harry Markowitz

Make their hate your stepping stones towards achieving something greater. This will be the best revenge you can give - by proving to people that they are wrong about you, and that you are better than they could ever imagine. ~ Auliq Ice

You can change only what people know, not what they do. ~ Scott Adams

A rational prediction has an explanation based on theory. ~ W. Edwards Deming

Whenever you become aware of a conflict in the world, realize that you only perceive it as a conflict because it resonates with something that's already inside of you. ~ Auliq Ice

Control your own Destiny or somebody else will ~ Jack Welch

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

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

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

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

What is an organization actually, even in organization theory, even in the most classical sense in management, if not a serial redescription which starts again (and it's true) every morning. ~ Bruno Latour

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

Almost all systems of economic thought are premised on the idea of continued economic growth, which would be fine and dandy if we lived on an infinite planet, but there's this small, niggling, inconvenient fact that the planet is, in fact, finite, and that, unlike economic theory, it is governed by physical and biological reality ~ George Monbiot

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

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

Virtually every company will be going out and empowering their workers with a certain set of tools, and the big difference in how much value is received from that will be how much the company steps back and really thinks through their business processes, thinking through how their business can change, how their project management, their customer feedback, their planning cycles can be quite different than they ever were before. ~ Bill Gates

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

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

Although science is not easy in complex human systems, we cannot afford to throw our hands in the air and give up. It may take decades, but it is a game worth playing and winning. ~ Paul Gibbons

Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is. ~ Friedrich Durrenmatt

We only pay for what we admire, want and recognize as necessary, even when a cup of coffee is priced at the same value of a book that can change our entire future. ~ Robin Sacredfire

Change the rule and you will get a new number. ~ W. Edwards Deming

Without theory there is nothing to modify or learn. ~ W. Edwards Deming

Time is a treasure on earth. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Only experience can refine a leader's art. High-uncertainty projects are full of anxiety, change, and ambiguity that the team must deal with. It takes a different style of project management, a different pattern of team operation, and a different type of project leader. I've labeled this type of management leadership-collaboration. ~ Jim Highsmith

We need to learn ourselves before we can understand what really annoys us! ~ Auliq Ice

When rate of problems is greater than rate of solutions, only radical changes can make the difference. ~ Sukant Ratnakar

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

The existential attitude is one of involvement in contrast to a merely theoretical or detached attitude. "Existential" in this sense can be defined as participating in a situation, especially a cognitive situation, with the whole of one's existence ... There are realms of reality or - more exactly - of abstraction from reality in which the most complete detachment is the adequate cognitive approach. Everything which can be expressed in terms of quantitative measurement has this character. But it is most inadequate to apply the same approach to reality in its infinite concreteness. A self which has become a matter of calculation and management has ceased to be a self. It has become a thing. You must participate in a self in order to know what it is. But by participating you change it. In all existential knowledge both subject and object are transformed by the very act of knowing. ~ Paul Tillich

The original and brilliant idea of an MBA was the opportunity for students to study the theory and application of business and management principles. ~ Warren Bennis

Of course the lower classes have always felt downtrodden and aspired to a better life. But there is this theory that people respond to a class structure in England - there was a time when people knew who they were and knew whom they served and as long as management wasn't abusive, it was a good life for people. ~ Damian Lewis