Change Management Quotes

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

Change management is kind of a weird concept to me. We can' t control events any more than we can control the weather. But we control how we deal with it and we can control the opportunities that these moments of change create.

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

Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.

We cannot change anything unless we accept it.

In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.

Unless you are prepared to give up something valuable you will never be able to truly change at all, because you'll be forever in the control of things you can't give up.

God, give me grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed.

Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.

If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.

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.

The great growling engine of change - technology.

The Lesson is, we all need to expose ourselves to the winds of change

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

All is connected ... no one thing can change by itself.

After living with their dysfunctional behavior for so many years, people become invested in defending their dysfunctions rather than changing them.

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic.

If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow.

Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.

People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.

In fact, people themselves are responsible for making the status quo so resistant to change. We are trapped by our own behavior.

The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Be the change you want to see.

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Be the compromise you want to see in the world.

If you don't change direction, you end up where you are headed.

The key to change is to let go of fear.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

Build what you want to see in the world.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

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.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

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

Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

Innovation requires us to systematically identify changes that have already occurred in a business - in demographics, in values, in technology or science - and then to look at them as opportunities. It also requires something that is most difficult for existing companies to do: to abandon rather than defend yesterday.

If you always do what you did, you'll always get what you got.