Top 61 Change Strategy Quotes
#1. Adaptability is about the powerful difference between adapting to cope and adapting to win.
Max McKeown
#2. Current levels of Pentagon spending may not be able to support current defense strategy. The answer to this problem is right before our eyes: cut the money and change the strategy. That would be acting in the name of a conception of national security that was truly strategic.
William Hartung
#3. Doing nothing requires effort. Over time, that effort is greater than the effort necessary to improve, or move somewhere better. The trick is to redirect energy.
Max McKeown
#4. Creating change-agile businesses will eliminate the need for what we today call change management.
Paul Gibbons
#5. ...changing one's own behavior is a much more promising strategy than insisting on change from the other.
Terrence Real
#6. The underlying principles of strategy are enduring, regardless of technology or the pace of change.
Michael Porter
#7. When a plan or strategy fails, people are tempted to assume it was the wrong vision. Plans and strategies can always be changed and improved. But vision doesn't change. Visions are simply refined with time.
Andy Stanley
#8. Designing and implementing a strategy for change is a waste of time until you have discovered and embraced the current reality. If you don't know where you really are, it is impossible to get where you need to be.
Andy Stanley
#9. I think it's overly simplistic to say that any one single strategy is going to really change the focus and change the trajectory of drug use.
Michael Botticelli
#10. The major strategy of Satan is to distort the character of God and the truth of who we are. He can't change God and he can't do anything to change our identity and position in Christ. If, however, he can get us to believe a lie, we will live as though our identity in Christ isn't true.
Neil T. Anderson
#11. Leaders need to correct for cognitive biases the way a sharpshooter corrects for wind velocity or a yachtsman corrects for the tide.
Paul Gibbons
#12. Most of us fear change. Even when our minds say change is normal, our stomachs quiver at the prospect. But for strategists and managers today, there is no choice but to change.
Robert Waterman Jr.
#13. Strategy is empty without change, empty without passion, and empty without people willing to confront the void.
Seth Godin
#14. Shame often causes me to hide my mistakes from others. But really, when I make a mistake, I should make it loud and clear, so I can see that it didn't work as a strategy, and be able to make a course correction, either by myself or with the help of others.
Sharon Weil
#15. Every new change forces all the companies in an industry to adapt their strategies to that change.
Bill Gates
#16. The scalable, profitable strategy is to change the game, not to become the most average.
Seth
#17. Green light, STOP - if you want to see where you are taking the most risk, look where you are making the most money.
Paul Gibbons
#18. My career goals generally remain the same, but my short time goals constantly change either because I've reached them all or they no longer fit into my current strategy.
Benjamin Stone
#19. Leaders need to sacrifice "power-over" to get "power-to".
Paul Gibbons
#20. Are you on the eve of change? Embrace it. Accept it. Don't resist it. Change is not only a part of life, change is a necessary part of God's strategy. To use us to change the world, he alters our assignments.
Max Lucado
#21. My putting strategy is simple: If you're not making putts, don't be afraid to change your technique.
Louis Oosthuizen
#22. A four percent growth strategy means you fix a convoluted tax code. You get in and you change every aspect of regulations that are job killers. You get rid of Obamacare and replace it with something that doesn't suppress wages and kill jobs.
Jeb Bush
#23. Ambiguity is not, today, a lack of data, but a deluge of data.
Paul Gibbons
#24. It is time to euthanize change management.
Paul Gibbons
#25. Measured against the scale and momentum of the Soviet empire's challenge, the Reagan administration has failed, is failing, and without a dramatic change in strategy will continue to fail ... President Reagan is clearly failing.
Newt Gingrich
#26. Strategic coherence is more important than strategic perfection.
Paul Gibbons
#27. Worrying about a problem is not a strategy for change.
Jody Williams
#28. In an increasingly non-linear economy, incremental change is not enough-you have to build a capacity for strategy innovation, one that increases your ability to recognize new opportunities.
Gary Hamel
#29. Growth is much more than a strategy. It is a complex change process that involves the right mindset, the right processes, experimentation, and an enabling environment.
Edward D. Hess
#30. Change is neither good nor bad. It creates different situations, and that difference is what we have to understand, embrace and explore as an opportunity.
Daniel Egger
#31. I think a very good system in a world with a lot of passive investors is one in which there are at least a few entrepreneurial investors, prepared to say what they think, prepared to propose a change in management, change in strategy, change in cost structure, capital structure.
Bill Ackman
#32. A pivot is a change in strategy without a change in vision.
Eric Ries
#33. Your strategy for success must constantly move, change, and evolve.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#34. The notion of "business as usual" is a harmful myth.
Paul Gibbons
#35. The well-being of the British people and the health of our economy are far more important than any government's commitment to a particular strategy, but to change course now would be fatal to the whole counter-inflation strategy.
Geoffrey Howe
#36. O take heart, my brothers. Even now ... with every leader & every resource & every strategy of every nation on Earth arrayed against Her - Even now, O even now, my brothers, Life is in no danger of losing the argument! - For after all ... (as will be shown) She has only to change the subject.
Kenneth Patchen
#37. You can always try another approach; even change your subject when a scientific strategy or experiment fails.
Ada Yonath
#38. It may be necessary to change our brand, catch phrases, strategy, design, etc. once in awhile. It may give us competitive advantages. But a change that demands the change of the SOUL of who we're doesn't deserve to be entertained.
Assegid Habtewold
#39. Famous pivot stories are often failures but you don't need to fail before you pivot. All a pivot is is a change is strategy without a change in vision. Whenever entrepreneurs see a new way to achieve their vision - a way to be more successful - they have to remain nimble enough to take it.
Eric Ries
#41. The author says one of the sources of resilience is the ability to measure and perceive early warning signs so as to adapt.
Andrew Zolli
#42. The more usual reason for adopting a strategy of limited aim is that of awaiting a change in the balance of force ... The essential condition of such a strategy is that the drain on him should be disproportionately greater than on oneself.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#43. I think that the climate change policy and strategy that we have developed and that we have rolled out thus far is an example of incredibly high-quality work, incredible collaboration by an exceptionally large number of well-informed people.
Rachel Notley
#44. People who blame things rarely change things. Blame is an unassailable change-avoidance strategy.
Andy Stanley
#45. Yesterday's decision-making strategies are ill-equipped to deal with petabyte information flows.
Paul Gibbons
#46. In 2012, I see the potential for people to come together, huge moments of political and social engagement where elections are part of the strategy for change, but not the end goal and not the only thing that matters.
Olivia Wilde
#47. Mind-body integration is more than a personal health strategy. It is a movement of consciousness that can change the world.
Matthew Sanford
#48. ReThink culture, because it is the foundation of all strategic success.
Tony Dovale
#49. Many of the cataclysmic leadership failures were failures of rationality. The pendulum of leadership development needs to swing back toward the rational: strategy, creativity, foresight, decision-making, and analytics.
Paul Gibbons
#51. Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.
Rudy Giuliani
#52. Strategy has no value if your culture and leadership mindset are wrong
Tony Dovale
#53. Business people need to understand the psychology of risk more than the mathematics of risk.
Paul Gibbons
#54. Catastrophe is change on the fast track. Disaster is a laboratory for adaptability.
Robert Watson
#55. Strategy, role-model, systems thinking, trust, relationship management, balance, etc., are all important culture change principles.
Pearl Zhu
#56. If there are no new ideas, there is no innovation. And if there is no creativity, there are no new ideas.
Max McKeown
#57. At some point, you will hit a plateau. If you keep doing same things you did to get to that point, make a change.
J.R. Rim
#58. Strategy doesn't change when hard times arrive. Consumers' willingness to try, and to stay loyal, remains, the goal. Winners know this; their brand focus and strategy remains consistent.
Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison
#59. A change of strategy suggests there is a strategy. I don't see a strategy that deals with - that concerns with dealing wit with ISIL overall. There is some sort of strategy for dealing with it in Iraq. I'm not sure there is one in Syria. And Libya is another problem altogether.
David Ignatius
#60. Most businesses would profit greatly from just applying Change Management 101 well.
Paul Gibbons
#61. If you have difficulty reaching your goal, keep the goal, but change your strategy.
Ray Long
