Best 70 quotes in «change management quotes» category

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

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.

It is worth the effort to break down silos, get out of the comfort zone, and prepare the future proactively, in order for individuals and businesses to reach the digital premium.

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

It is time to euthanize change management.

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

Organizations risk and fall, not on the quantum of plans and resources, but on the capabilities to lead and manage, yet most important to execute.

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

…most of the ways in which we know how to engineer change…are not effective. Given a…logical problem to solve, we are superb… But…the fundamental premises are different, which means that our logic is without power.

Leading change means bringing people with you to a better state than any of you could have envisaged alone.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Organizations naturally decline, so for optimum results, actively experiment and continuously tweak.

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

People who appear to be resisting change may simply be the victim of bad habits. Habit, like gravity, never takes a day off.

Ripple Leaders equip and guide their people to achieve the mission by anticipating challenges and bridging the gap between what's available and what's needed.

Successful nemawashi enables change to be the result of consensus among the parties.

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.

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

The drive of Change Leadership is for making progress and inspiring innovation.

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

The digital organization is a living thing with the ability to continually change as the world changes and evolves with an intersecting and interacting business ecosystem seamlessly.

The key to behavioral change is to pass behavioral control to the environment.

The 'fear of change' excuse is something you see trotted out by organizations or management that believe customers are old, stupid, ignorant, and stubborn.

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

The industrial model doesn’t work any more, yet many businesses still behave as if it does. They will have to wise up quick.

The modern work world requires tremendous flexibility. Anticipate working in different positions and different organizations. Expect startups, disruptive innovation, reorganizations and moving on to new adventures. Grow and change.

The most dangerous phrase in the English language is, “We have always done it this way”. Many parents use this phrase to answer curious children. Many employees in organizations use this phrase to oppose change. Many people use this phrase to convince themselves so that they can continue to live in a comfort zone. This mindset has killed many dreams and aspirations and has derailed many successful journeys, for individuals as well as organizations. Never kill your curiosity. Never accept anything without asking questions. Something that had relevance 20 years ago, now has become irrelevant. There is always a first time in life. Something hasn't happened till date, doesn't mean it will never happen. Life is all about opening up us to new experiences.

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

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

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.

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 can and watched the world float in magical silence past your window, the tall buildings of the city in the crisp autumn light and then the backs of the houses with laundry flapping and a crossing with gates where a boy was waving from his bicycle, and then the woods and fields and a single cow eating grass....... .....Because sometimes it was one way, easy, and sometimes it was the other, not easy; the things of your life roared down to you and it was all you could do to grab hold and hang on. Your old life ended, and the train took you away to another...

The truth is that digital transformation is actually not about adapting to new technology at all — it's about directing an organisation to be more adaptive to change itself.

The voice of leveraging Systems Thinking in Change Management to communicate with the spiral of conscious awareness is a compelling story to advocate change and digital transformation.

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?

Too few leaders have the emotional fortitude to take responsibility for failure.

Transformation rarely happens accidentally.

Use of analytics is accelerating, and that means more data-driven decision making and fewer hunches. Evidence-based management complements analytics by adding validated cause-and-effect relationships between policies and effects.

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 allow anybody to be the composer of your own destiny. Take control of your life, and never allow limitations implanted by society, tell you how your music is supposed to sound — or how your book is supposed to be written.

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

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

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.

A hardness to change reveals a hardness of heart.

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.

Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future.

Adaptability and change management requires strong emotional and social intelligence. It is a part of inside-out leadership.

Because of the rise of social media and the influence we have as a collective to lead change, the power has shifted from the individual, and is swiftly moving into the hands of the masses.