Top 39 Quotes On Change Management Leadership
#1. Leaders are the human catalyst that overcomes our desire for the status quo.
Scott Hammerle
#2. 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
#3. Master Yourself and you master your environment! Such is the nature of wisdom.
D. Nicole Williams
#4. Rethink change: Make change management irrelevant through Appreciative Leadership Innovation focused Expectations (ALIFE)
Tony Dovale
#5. Too few leaders have the emotional fortitude to take responsibility for failure.
Paul Gibbons
#6. 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
#7. The notion of "business as usual" is a harmful myth.
Paul Gibbons
#8. Don't buy into the campaign that people don't like change. We are built for it.
Stacy Feiner
#9. Don't let Deepak Chopra manage your change program.
Paul Gibbons
#10. When business leaders talk about the next quarter, they ought to sometimes be talking about the next quarter century.
Paul Gibbons
#11. 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
#12. The change "grief cycle", for some people, may be excitement, enthusiasm, engagement, effort, and excellence.
Paul Gibbons
#13. Change is not always easy when patterns in our lives have existed so long.
Lolly Daskal
#14. Those who disrupt their industries change consumer behavior, alter economics, and transform lives.
Heather Simmons
#15. Knowing your feelings won't change the facts, but knowing the facts can change your feelings.
Marlene Chism
#16. Leadership produces change. That is its primary function
John P. Kotter
#18. 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
#19. 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
#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. ReThink culture, because it is the foundation of all strategic success.
Tony Dovale
#22. 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
#23. There was nothing scientific about Scientific Management (Taylorism), and neither was it good management.
Paul Gibbons
#24. Strategy has no value if your culture and leadership mindset are wrong
Tony Dovale
#25. Control your own Destiny or somebody else will
Jack Welch
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. Creating change-agile businesses will eliminate the need for what we today call change management.
Paul Gibbons
#29. 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
#30. An Appreciative inquiry Conversation is the catalyst for strengths based innovation.
Tony Dovale
#31. Imagine going to work every day to do only and exactly what you love!! All the work gets done because of the abundant diversity of your team. Different skills, interests and talents are woven together into a whole that is much greater than the sum of the parts!
Denise Moreland
#32. We have good leadership only by chance, not by management.
And we need to change that!
Amit Chatterjee
#33. Leaders need to sacrifice "power-over" to get "power-to".
Paul Gibbons
#34. It is time to euthanize change management.
Paul Gibbons
#36. Every organisation, not just business, needs 1 core competence: Tactical execution
Tony Dovale
#37. Although science is not easy in complex human systems, we cannot afford to throw our hands in the air and give up. It may take decades, but it is a game worth playing and winning.
Paul Gibbons
#38. Unless people are convinced about what you are asking them to do, they are not going to make it happen.
Ravi Kant
#39. We need leadership books that offer information as well as inspiration. Pop leadership is one of the most destructive forces today.
Paul Gibbons
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