Quotes About Organizational Change

#1. This isn't just a book about organizational change - it's also about

Daryl R. Conner

#2. In most organizational change efforts, it is much easier to draw on the strengths of the culture than to overcome the constraints by changing the culture.

Edgar Schein

#3. 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

#4. Nothing so undermines organizational change as the failure to think through the losses people face.

William Bridges

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

Paul Gibbons

#6. Remind me one day to teach you how to achieve a sneer, Hugh. Yours is too pronounced, and thus but a grimace. It should be but a faint curl of the lips.

Georgette Heyer

#7. Taiwan matters because of its vital role in spreading democracy in East Asia. Taiwan matters because of its strategic importance to promote peace in the Pacific region.

Annette Lu

#8. People often resist change for reasons that make good sense to them, even if those reasons don't correspond to organizational goals. So it is crucial to recognize, reward, and celebrate accomplishments.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#9. The organizational fit is the good balance of the fitting attitude and misfit thinking.

Pearl Zhu

#10. Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts; and if people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.

John Muir

#11. The locus of corporate innovations has been product development. But in times of rapid and unpredictable change, the creation of individual products becomes less important than the creation of a general organizational aptitude for innovation.

John Seely Brown

#12. The phrase "Rest in peace" seems incredibly self-serving. It basically means, "Stay in your grave. Don't haunt me." The opposite would be "Fitfully toss" or "Go jogging.

Jenny Lawson

#13. I'm sad, but I'm laughing.

Alanis Morissette

#14. A few key terms that frame the dynamics of complexity theory will be a starting point for further study and further reflection on how complexity theory can increase our awareness of organizational dynamics and the nested systems of change that constitute life and change.

Milton Friesen

#15. What is it?" He stood naked before me, his hands still on his hips.
My curiosity arose. "Why didn't you kill me?"
"Is that what you want? Because if it is, I can take care of that for
you.

Lynn Mullican

#16. I could be one if I wanted to, I'm just way too overqualified for a job that simple.

Zach Braff

#17. Organizational maturity is not just about technical excellence or process efficiency, but also about business effectiveness, agility, innovation intelligence, and people-centricity.

Pearl Zhu

#18. I started being me about the songs, not writing objectively, but subjectively. I think it was Dylan who helped me realize that - not by any discussion or anything, but by hearing his work.

John Lennon

#19. We owe it to the victims of the suicide bombers who struck London on 7 July 2005 to find out how the attacks happened and to learn the lessons that will spare lives in the future.

Pauline Neville-Jones

#20. 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

#21. One man's modus ponens is another man's reductio, as epistemologists are forever pointing out (In Critical Condition, p. 70)

Jerry A. Fodor

#22. If the world wants you, it's gonna keep on coming till it gets you. And who am I that can fix it? Who am I that can change this if the world wants it so badly? Who am I to stop the end of the world if it keeps on coming?

Patrick Ness

#23. Today most habeas involves the federal courts overriding state convictionswhere it used to be mostly the reverse.

Anthony Gregory

#24. Willful ignorance or resistance to alleged facts has been a big ingredient in any success I've had.

Rob Delaney

#25. We keep a change in place by helping to create a new, supportive, and sufficiently strong organizational culture.

John P. Kotter

#26. Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel like he could bench-press a city bus. With a jet plane on its roof.

J.R. Ward

#27. Prayer serves a dual purpose; the blessing of man and the glory of God.

Billy Graham