Quotes about Change Management

Change before you have to. Votes: 3

The great growling engine of change - technology. Votes: 3

Slowness to change usually means fear of the new. Votes: 3

The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order. Votes: 3

It is always easier to talk about change than to make it. Votes: 3

Why this reluctance to make the change? We fear the process of reeducation. Votes: 3

The Lesson is, we all need to expose ourselves to the winds of change Votes: 3

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress. Votes: 3

The future is coming so fast, we can't possibly predict it; we can only learn to respond quickly. Votes: 3

If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near. Votes: 3

Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while. Votes: 3

In fact, people themselves are responsible for making the status quo so resistant to change. We are trapped by our own behavior. Votes: 3

Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time. Votes: 3

The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor. Votes: 3

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters. Votes: 3

Innovation requires us to systematically identify changes that have already occurred in a business - in demographics, in values, in technology or science - and then to look at them as opportunities. It also requires something that is most difficult for existing companies to do: to abandon rather than defend yesterday. Votes: 3

Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing. Votes: 1

The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy. Votes: 1

The truth is that no internal reviews or congressional hearings will change the Secret Service's broken management culture. It needs better leadership. Votes: 1

We live in a world where the laws are getting so tight that management has changed to micro-management to quantum-management to paralysis. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

As we get more transparent with data sets about infrastructure and systems management, I have a feeling we'll see big changes in how we think about complexity and our relationship to our actions. Votes: 1

For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men. Votes: 1

Unions can play a valuable role in large organisations where it is difficult to talk to a thousand people. They can negotiate annual pay awards with management, represent grievance cases, and explain and advise on complicated changes in employment or pension law. Votes: 1

Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country. Votes: 1

In terms of the actual curriculum for management education, my own view is very simple-minded: The world is incredibly complex, it changes all the time, and we should not even hope that we could create a general model that accurately describes the world in all its possible states. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Imagine if the pension funds and endowments that own much of the equity in our financial services companies demanded that those companies revisit the way mortgages were marketed to those without adequate skills to understand the products they were being sold. Management would have to change the way things were done. Votes: 1

Earlier, my priority was only work. I worked like a dog before I got married. After marriage, once you have a baby, time management is difficult. Your responsibilities change, your priorities change. And you have to concentrate on them if you have to work out your life. Your career is just a part of your life. For me, my family is my life. Votes: 1

The survival of love depends on the management of change. Votes: 0

Management that wants to change an institution must first show that it loves that institution. Votes: 0

Management is the gate through which social and economic and political change, indeed change in every direction, is diffused though society. Votes: 0

The 'fear of change' excuse is something you see trotted out by organizations or management that believe customers are old, stupid, ignorant, and stubborn. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0