Top 100 Quotes About Leadership Change
#1. The change "grief cycle", for some people, may be excitement, enthusiasm, engagement, effort, and excellence.
Paul Gibbons
#2. Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.
W. Averell Harriman
#3. Knowing your feelings won't change the facts, but knowing the facts can change your feelings.
Marlene Chism
#4. One of the most common ways to overcome resistance to change is to educate people about it beforehand. Communication of ideas helps people see the need for and the logic of a change. The education process can involve one-on-one discussions, presentations to groups, or memos and reports.
John P. Kotter
#5. Those who disrupt their industries change consumer behavior, alter economics, and transform lives.
Heather Simmons
#6. Mindfulness requires being a beginner. Setting absurdly high-standards, and being unwilling to be a novice, are the joint enemies of personal progress and change. Nobody benchpresses 100 kilos the first time they enter a gym.
Paul Gibbons
#7. Those who are to change significantly that which they freshly encounter must themselves be changed by the changing of it.
Reg Revans
#8. The new leader is one who commits people to action, who converts followers into leaders, and who may convert leaders into agents of change.
Warren G. Bennis
#9. The basis of leadership is the capacity of the leader to change the mindset, the framework of the other person.
Warren G. Bennis
#10. One of the problems in the biotech world is the lack of women in leadership roles, and I'd like to see that change by walking the walk.
Jennifer Doudna
#11. Change is not always easy when patterns in our lives have existed so long.
Lolly Daskal
#12. EMOTIONAL PAIN is an inevitable reality of life..while it gives discomfort, it is also a dynamic force to 'awareness'. Pain is a very human way of 'demanding change'.Whenever you feel pain about something, you need to CHANGE something! It is that simple...
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#13. Learning how to respond to and master the process of change - and even to excel at it - is a critical leadership skill for the twenty-first century. Constant, rapid change will be a fact of life for all of us.
Jennifer James
#14. But I'm hopeful some of that will start to change. The public is more libertarian, the public is saying we want people who are going to be independent and not bow to leadership in either of the major parties.
Justin Amash
#15. Leadership is often the afterthought of educational change.
Andy Hargreaves
#16. There's one thing you can start doing right now that will change how you communicate with any young human: Remember what it's like to be one.
Justin Young
#17. Implementation of technological change must involve critics as well as advocates.
Andy Hargreaves
#18. If you're a good experienced player, you wknow what it takes to do. If you're in trouble, you know how to change. One hundred percent of my game is instinct. I never stop and think I'm going to hit a ball crosscourt or down the line. I just do it.
Bjorn Borg
#19. Great leadership involves three things. The ability to realize when you are wrong, a willingness to learn from it, and an eagerness to change course if necessary.
Jeffrey Fry
#20. A prophet is one who sees what is happening and being done in the present that they can tell us what will happen to us if we do not change now, immediately, turning from our present course.
Megan McKenna
#21. Leadership is about change ... The best way to get people to venture into unknown terrain is to make it desirable by taking them there in their imaginations.
Noel Tichy
#23. The essence of extended rationality is to know when you are being irrational.
Paul Gibbons
#24. Leaders respond & change; the rest quit and blame.
Orrin Woodward
#25. Transformation is an acquired taste - not for the faint of heart.
Bob Anderson
#26. The conversation people need to have is no longer about women assuming positions of leadership within the existing power structure, it's about the power structures themselves, it's about how to go about assuming power, how to change the structures.
Elizabeth Lesser
#27. Knowing that an asteroid is going to hit the earth is not really useful if you are not planning to launch missiles to knock it out of the sky. You have to work massively overtime on the belief that innovation or massive change is going to happen.' - Tom Martin, former VP of marketing
Heather Simmons
#28. Performance depends upon our actions an behaviors, which are activated by emotions, which are created when our MINDSET meets reality ... Mindsets Matter Most
Tony Dovale
#29. Change happens when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change.
Tony Robbins
#30. The paradox of change is that the only way to alter the way we think is by doing the very things our habitual thinking keeps us from doing." p. 5
Herminia Ibarra
#31. Because management deals mostly with the status quo and leadership deals mostly with change, in the next century we are going to have to try to become much more skilled at creating leaders.
John P. Kotter
#32. What is the difference between project management and project leadership? Although there is an elusive line between them, the core difference is that management deals with complexity, whereas leadership deals with change.
Jim Highsmith
#33. We need to change the leadership model in the world. That's my passion in life: changing hearts and minds about leadership.
Bob Vanourek
#34. The challenge for us is to find some response that actually inspires change rather than clinging to the old ways that cause resentment, and more importantly, distract from the real problem.
Adele Faber
#35. Pop leadership abuts pop psychology, and is very destructive. In no other serious domain of human endeavor (surgery, playing the violin) is the subject distilled down to nice-sounding aphorisms that mean nothing.
Paul Gibbons
#36. It was due to his tact, to his judgment, to his sympathetic manipulation of human beings that the atmosphere had always been such a happy one ... If there was a change, therefore, the change must be due to the man at the top.
Agatha Christie
#37. To achieve this incredible feat of building Nigeria, we must all truly desire to see it happen
Fela Durotoye
#38. I think the script's actually pretty solid. It really is a labor of love for us to get this thing off the ground. It was scary but then there was the change in leadership and I think that the new guy in charge is basically like, "We should just do this."
Nicholas Stoller
#39. True leadership will not be measured by the ability to muzzle dissent, or to intimidate and harass political opponents at home. The people of the world want change. They will not long tolerate those who are on the wrong side of history.
Barack Obama
#41. The more you respond to change externally, the more solid you need to be internally.
Todd Stocker
#42. Leadership produces change. That is its primary function
John P. Kotter
#43. Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
Jesse Jackson
#44. Spiritual leadership is the power to change the atmosphere by one's presence, the unconscious influence that makes Christ and spiritual things real to others.
J. Oswald Sanders
#46. Whom the society deems worthless, once they discover their special inclination, it will change the very course of their lives as well as the shape of the very society that distastes them.
Abhijit Naskar
#47. The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?
Max De Pree
#48. Make a difference, change the game for the better, leave a legacy, be a guide that someone else can follow and make better, and then someone else will follow that and make that better.
Carlos Wallace
#49. 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
#50. Even though men and women are different in our thinking, we all share the need and desire for compassion, compliments, and companionship.
Germany Kent
#51. 21st Century Managers must change their thinking because they are now in the business of managing Mindsets & thinking, which impacts actions and behaviors.
Tony Dovale
#52. The word "influence" means the power to change or affect someone.
Johnny Hunt
#53. Nothing so undermines organizational change as the failure to think through the losses people face.
William Bridges
#54. Don't buy into the campaign that people don't like change. We are built for it.
Stacy Feiner
#55. As the prevailing voices in the public spotlight are predominantly men, stepping into the spotlight with the truth of who you are as a woman is political change.
Tabby Biddle
#56. Students are often the last to know about change that is occurring in their own school system.
Andy Hargreaves
#57. The notion of "business as usual" is a harmful myth.
Paul Gibbons
#58. Your Results will only change when you change your mindset, thinking and actions.
Tony Dovale
#59. I'm impatient. Typically people think they know all about change and don't need help. Their approach tends to be more management-oriented than leadership-oriented. It's very frustrating.
John P. Kotter
#60. Too few leaders have the emotional fortitude to take responsibility for failure.
Paul Gibbons
#61. Leadership experts and the public alike extol the virtues of transformational leaders - those who set out bold objectives and take risks to change the world. We tend to downplay 'transactional' leaders, whose goals are more modest, as mere managers.
Joseph Nye
#62. Believing in your potential and calling upon your courage to change will fuel your professional growth and help you accomplish goals.
John Manning
#63. You need strong leadership to effectuate change, and the easiest way is to keep everything status quo. And sometimes changes are necessary. If not, you build up too much potential energy.
Ronnie Chan
#64. When you choose to act on your problems, you cease to be a victim of circumstance and become a force of change; that's when you transition to not only being a survivor, but to being a leader or hero too, and an inspiration to those still in the victim's mindset.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#65. Rethink change: Make change management irrelevant through Appreciative Leadership Innovation focused Expectations (ALIFE)
Tony Dovale
#66. A level 4 leader's greatest asset is his ability to engage, empower, and equip his people; this is what creates the momentum for a significant change in the organization. He invests 80% in his people and 20% in the process.
Farshad Asl
#67. Sustainable change, after all, depends not upon compliance with external mandates or blind adherence to regulation, but rather upon the pursuit of the greater good.
Douglas B. Reeves
#68. Master Yourself and you master your environment! Such is the nature of wisdom.
D. Nicole Williams
#69. People don't change that much. Instead of trying to put in what God left out, try drawing out what God left in!
Curt Coffman
#70. Although everyone wants to change the teacher, it's time for the agents of educational reform to change themselves.
Andy Hargreaves
#71. Leaders are the human catalyst that overcomes our desire for the status quo.
Scott Hammerle
#72. You can provide the conditions for the motivation of others and the leadership to help them find a way but they must have the intrinsic spark, the desire, to move, to overcome the inertia of the status quo and change things.
Graham Speechley
#73. Big-picture, hands-off leadership isn't likely to work in a change situation, because the hardest part of change - the paralyzing part - is precisely in the details.
Chip Heath
#74. The success of any change depends, in large measure, on your attitude about that change.
David Cottrell
#75. Teachers create and transform energy. They are the dynamos of educational change.
Andy Hargreaves
#76. Growing a business requires that we look at ourselves and change the way we make decisions.
David J. Greer
#77. 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.
Scott Hammerle
#78. When business leaders talk about the next quarter, they ought to sometimes be talking about the next quarter century.
Paul Gibbons
#79. REAL Leaders are experts at bringing out the best in others ... Thinking , feelings and actions. They improve their teams' thinking skills and Mindsets.
Tony Dovale
#80. Dr. King's leadership reaffirmed the promise of our democracy: that everyday people, working together, have the power to change our government and our institutions for the better.
Maria Cantwell
#81. Who you are when you have no power to say anything, and who you become when you have power to say everything will determine whether you are a leader or not.
Israelmore Ayivor
#82. For me, leadership is making a difference. It's using your agency to bring about change.
Melanne Verveer
#83. You can't make a difference unless you are different.
Chris Hodges
#84. Leaders make things better and that requires change.
Andy Stanley
#85. Humanity can not afford to have 21st Century businesses run on 20th Century science, and (worse) pseudoscience.
Paul Gibbons
#86. Libertarians believe that any government interference is bad. Anyone with a brain knows that climate change needs governmental leadership, and they can smell this is bad news for their philosophy. Their ideology is so strongly held that, remarkably, it's overcoming the facts.
Jeremy Grantham
#87. I don't believe our country will last the way we know it much longer unless there's a change. And we just continue this moral decline going down, and the only hope, I believe, is God. We just hope and pray that maybe he'll hear our prayers and give us some godly leadership.
Franklin Graham
#89. Successful leaders know how to line up support for their initiatives and create the right environment for change and innovation.
Bonnie Marcus
#90. Those with visible responsibility for leadership are nearly always too visible to take responsibility for change ...
Harlan Cleveland
#91. Leaders can change the tenor of the workplace and create harmony in motion toward a favorable result. So every time you say to your team, "Let's rock and roll," make sure you have already set up the stage to where they can actually perform like rock stars.
Thomas Huynh
#92. There is no debate in the scientific community ... We need [Congress] to change things, not to deny what's happening.
Bill Nye
#93. If you want to do something that really changes someone's life, the best thing you can do is make the person you're trying to help a participant in the process.
John Stahl-Wert
#94. Emotions or feelings stem from your attitude and they become the basis on which you decide or act. All decisions, choices and actions have some kind of underlying emotional influence. To change the way you feel about someone or something you must first change the way you think about them.
Archibald Marwizi
#95. Take care of your people is one of the principle lessons of military leadership. If we take care of our people on deployment, why should that change when we come home?
Eric Greitens
#97. To embrace God is to embrace change. God does not operate by a predictable paradigm. He works through flux and chaos - and so should we. When crises come, don't panic - innovate! That's the essence of leadership.
Pat Williams
#98. Leaders respond & change; the rest quit and blame.
Orrin Woodward
#99. We know we must address climate change. We may not have sorted out every detail, but we are willing to take a leadership position and embrace open dialogue ... that will get us all to our common goals of protecting our world for future generations,
Alain J. P. Belda
#100. Don't let Deepak Chopra manage your change program.
Paul Gibbons
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