Top 100 Quotes About Management Change
#1. 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.
Tony Dovale
#2. 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
#3. The 'fear of change' excuse is something you see trotted out by organizations or management that believe customers are old, stupid, ignorant, and stubborn.
Ian Lamont
#4. Leaders are the human catalyst that overcomes our desire for the status quo.
Scott Hammerle
#5. 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.
A.J. Sheppard
#6. 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
#7. Master Yourself and you master your environment! Such is the nature of wisdom.
D. Nicole Williams
#8. Professional management was born from the desire to optimize and control, not to lead waves of change.
Scott Berkun
#9. In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
Eric Hoffer
#10. We need to learn ourselves before we can understand what really annoys us!
Auliq Ice
#11. Rethink change: Make change management irrelevant through Appreciative Leadership Innovation focused Expectations (ALIFE)
Tony Dovale
#12. Too few leaders have the emotional fortitude to take responsibility for failure.
Paul Gibbons
#13. 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
#14. The notion of "business as usual" is a harmful myth.
Paul Gibbons
#15. Don't buy into the campaign that people don't like change. We are built for it.
Stacy Feiner
#16. Selecting the right measure and measuring things right are both art and science. And KPIs influence management behavior as well as business culture.
Pearl Zhu
#17. Don't let Deepak Chopra manage your change program.
Paul Gibbons
#18. Many call this process 'the destruction of nature.' But it's not really destruction, it's change. Nature cannot be destroyed.
Yuval Noah Harari
#19. 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
#20. Simply put, this is one insight we heard echoed by tens of thousands of great managers:
People don't change that much.
Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out.
Try to draw out what was left in.
That is hard enough.
Marcus Buckingham
#21. Eighty-five percent of the reasons for failure are deficiencies in the systems and process rather than the employee. The role of management is to change the process rather than badgering individuals to do better.
W. Edwards Deming
#22. Changes are inevitable and not always controllable. What can be controlled is how you manage, react to and work through the change process.
Kelly A. Morgan
#23. To help others develop, start with yourself! When the boss acts like a little god and tells everyone else they need to improve, that behavior can be copied at every level of management. Every level then points out how the level below it needs to change. The end result: No one gets much better.
Marshall Goldsmith
#24. The role of the CEO is to enable people to excel, help them discover their own wisdom, engage themselves entirely in their work, and accept responsibility for making change. (164)
Vineet Nayar
#25. Kanban is not a software development lifecycle methodology or an approach to project management. It requires that some process is already in place so that Kanban can be applied to incrementally change the underlying process.
David J. Anderson
#26. 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
#27. Life is constantly teaching us that we are mirrors of one another and that no one is an island!
Auliq Ice
#28. 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
#29. Management that wants to change an institution must first show that it loves that institution.
John Tusa
#30. When business leaders talk about the next quarter, they ought to sometimes be talking about the next quarter century.
Paul Gibbons
#31. 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
#32. It's taken years, but part of my own personal growth has involved deciding that I can learn something from even the most annoying person.
Auliq Ice
#33. While we cannot accurately predict the course of climate change in the coming decades, the risks we run if we don't change our course are enormous. Prudent risk management does not equate uncertainty with inaction.
Steven Chu
#35. You must embrace change before change erases you.
Rob Liano
#36. Why this reluctance to make the change? We fear the process of reeducation.
Isaac Asimov
#37. When rate of problems is greater than rate of solutions, only radical changes can make the difference.
Sukant Ratnakar
#38. The change "grief cycle", for some people, may be excitement, enthusiasm, engagement, effort, and excellence.
Paul Gibbons
#39. When I came into the CEO office, I basically changed the entire management team. We knew that we had to change the company, so we needed a new set of leaders.
Hans Vestberg
#40. Change is not always easy when patterns in our lives have existed so long.
Lolly Daskal
#41. 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
#42. You mustn't let your emotions get the better of you. There is a great deal to be angry about, but anger doesn't change things.
Gemma Malley
#43. The purpose of people-centric Change Management is to build an ongoing change capability.
Pearl Zhu
#44. Those who disrupt their industries change consumer behavior, alter economics, and transform lives.
Heather Simmons
#45. Knowing your feelings won't change the facts, but knowing the facts can change your feelings.
Marlene Chism
#46. Successful weight management really means a permanent change in lifestyle - and success in this arena provides that person with a great opportunity to model that behavior for friends and family.
Francis Collins
#47. There's a moment in everybody's life when you're hopeless, just hopeless with hope and trust. And then something happens, something too big to understand, and then everything changes
Will Donner
#48. IF we don't start to rethink how we are acting now ... We will pay the price later for our "old-stinking-thinking" style
Tony Dovale
#49. With proactive support and full engagement of top leaders, Change Management can become an enjoyable voyage to discover the new landscape of businesses.
Pearl Zhu
#50. Leadership produces change. That is its primary function
John P. Kotter
#52. Good change-management
requires the right mix of urgency and empathy.
A.J. Sheppard
#53. 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
#54. 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.
Paul Gibbons
#55. 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
#56. Recognition of the value of time, the change in our attitude to time, time management and time consciousness translate into economic growth or increase in GDP.
Sunday Adelaja
#57. Change Management can become more successful with people at the core of change, the cause of change and the purpose of change.
Pearl Zhu
#58. 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
#59. Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet
Henry Mintzberg
#60. The hard part of ReThinking, is most people don't usually do much normal REAL thinking anyway. They live their lives on automatic reaction.
Tony Dovale
#61. Strategic-operational KPIs alignment gives the organization a powerful tool to use when implementing change.
Pearl Zhu
#62. 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
#63. ReThink culture, because it is the foundation of all strategic success.
Tony Dovale
#64. 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
#66. 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.
Paul Gibbons
#67. There was nothing scientific about Scientific Management (Taylorism), and neither was it good management.
Paul Gibbons
#68. Most of your struggles with managing your time are due to the self- limiting beliefs. Change your Mindset and you will be able to do lot more in lot less time
Vivek Naik
#69. Strategy has no value if your culture and leadership mindset are wrong
Tony Dovale
#70. Obviously it was happenstance, but it did change my opinion of human nature. I now saw war as a constant, akin to wildfires. They break out unless you work actively to prevent them. It's an atavistic thing, buried deep in our DNA.
Richard Engel
#71. Business people need to understand the psychology of risk more than the mathematics of risk.
Paul Gibbons
#72. 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
#73. 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.
Oli Anderson
#74. Control your own Destiny or somebody else will
Jack Welch
#75. People who appear to be resisting change may simply be the victim of bad habits. Habit, like gravity, never takes a day off.
Paul Gibbons
#76. Obama can't change his cool disposition, though it would be nice if he lost the vaguely grudging air he gives off that problems of management get in the way of ideas.
Tina Brown
#77. Strategy, role-model, systems thinking, trust, relationship management, balance, etc., are all important culture change principles.
Pearl Zhu
#78. Awareness is the first step of Change Management, it starts from the mindset level.
Pearl Zhu
#80. You can change only what people know, not what they do.
Scott Adams
#81. All organizations are perfectly designed to get the results they are now getting. If we want different results, we must change the way we do things.
Tom Northup
#82. Change is disturbing when it is done to us, exhilarating when it is done by us.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
#83. 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
#84. A poor attitude does not do the body any favours. Smile and the world will smile back at you.
Maurice Duffy
#85. Innovation is the change, Change Management needs to be an integral part of innovation management.
Pearl Zhu
#86. Most businesses would profit greatly from just applying Change Management 101 well.
Paul Gibbons
#87. Convincing a leader of the value of front-line ideas alone is rarely enough for that person to overcome years of entrenched bad habits and to change his management style.
Dean M. Schroeder
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. From the systems point of view, it is evident that one of the main obstacles to organizational change is the - largely unconscious - embrace by business leaders of the mechanistic approach to management.
Fritjof Capra
#92. 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
#93. There's more than one mosque in the world that used to be a church and before that was a temple. Because it's a lot easier to just change the sign on the top and say under new management than it is to change the whole building.
Bill Maher
#94. WHY has no value, if you cannot rethink resourcefulness in a limited context.
Tony Dovale
#95. 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
#96. 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.
Kevin Allen
#97. Leading change means bringing people with you to a better state than any of you could have envisaged alone.
A.J. Sheppard
#98. Creating change-agile businesses will eliminate the need for what we today call change management.
Paul Gibbons
#99. The truth is that no internal reviews or congressional hearings will change the Secret Service's broken management culture. It needs better leadership.
Ronald Kessler
#100. The future is coming so fast, we can't possibly predict it; we can only learn to respond quickly.
Steve Kerr
