Leadership And Change Management Quotes & Sayings

ReThink culture, because it is the foundation of all strategic success. — Tony Dovale

Strategy has no value if your culture and leadership mindset are wrong — Tony Dovale

Knowing your feelings won't change the facts, but knowing the facts can change your feelings. — Marlene Chism

But such people (Moderate Conservatives) aren't liberal. What they are is corporate. Their habits and opinions owe far more to the standards of courtesy and taste that prevail within the white-collar world than they do to Franklin Roosevelt and the United Mine Workers. We live in a time, after all, when hard-nosed bosses compose awestruck disquisitions on the nature of 'change,' punk rockers dispense leadership secrets, shallow profundities about authenticity sell luxury cars, tech billionaires build rock'n'roll musuems, management theorists ponder the nature of coolness, and a former lyricist fro the Grateful Dead hail the dawn of New Economy capitalism from the heights of Davos. Coversvatives may not understand why, but business culture had melded with counterculture for reasons having a great deal to do with business culture's usual priority - profit. — Thomas Frank

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

I have observed an analogy between a force field equilibrium and resistance to change in organizations. Let us imagine change to be a coiled spring in a field of opposing forces, such that some forces support change and others resist it. By increasing supporting forces such as supervisory pressure, prospects of career growth and monetary benefits or decreasing the resisting forces such as group norms, social rewards and work avoidance, the situation can be directed towards the desired result - but for a short time only, and that too only to a certain extent. After a while the resisting forces push back with greater force as they are compressed even more tightly. Therefore, a better approach would be to decrease the resisting force in such a manner that there is no concomitant increase in the supporting forces. In this way, less energy will be needed to bring about and maintain change.
The result of the forces i mentioned above, is motive. — Arun Tiwari

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

Control your own Destiny or somebody else will — Jack Welch

There was nothing scientific about Scientific Management (Taylorism), and neither was it good management. — Paul Gibbons

We have good leadership only by chance, not by management.

And we need to change that! — Amit Chatterjee

DevOps and its resulting technical, architectural, and cultural practices represent a convergence of many philosophical and management movements (including): Lean, Theory of Constraints, Toyota production system, resilience engineering, learning organizations, safety culture, Human factors, high-trust management cultures, servant leadership, organizational change management, and Agile methods. — Gene Kim

Creating change-agile businesses will eliminate the need for what we today call change management. — Paul Gibbons

Master Yourself and you master your environment! Such is the nature of wisdom. — D. Nicole Williams

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

By your choices you reveal your commitments. — Marlene Chism

Rethink change: Make change management irrelevant through Appreciative Leadership Innovation focused Expectations (ALIFE) — Tony Dovale

Those who disrupt their industries change consumer behavior, alter economics, and transform lives. — Heather Simmons

The notion of "business as usual" is a harmful myth. — Paul Gibbons

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

Don't buy into the campaign that people don't like change. We are built for it. — Stacy Feiner

If you don't have true, deep, enduring conviction about the importance of the change you're pursuing, you will be buffeted, worn down, ground down, and diverted at those critical points where leadership is the only force that keeps the change moving. The biggest mistakes that I see come during those points. At root, the mistakes arise from the dissipation of conviction - leadership and management conviction. — David S. Pottruck

A hardness to change reveals a hardness of heart. — Gary Rohrmayer

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

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

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

When business leaders talk about the next quarter, they ought to sometimes be talking about the next quarter century. — Paul Gibbons

Leaders are the human catalyst that overcomes our desire for the status quo. — Scott Hammerle

It is time to euthanize change management. — Paul Gibbons

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

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

We need leadership books that offer information as well as inspiration. Pop leadership is one of the most destructive forces today. — Paul Gibbons

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

The change "grief cycle", for some people, may be excitement, enthusiasm, engagement, effort, and excellence. — Paul Gibbons

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

Don't let Deepak Chopra manage your change program. — Paul Gibbons

Only experience can refine a leader's art. High-uncertainty projects are full of anxiety, change, and ambiguity that the team must deal with. It takes a different style of project management, a different pattern of team operation, and a different type of project leader. I've labeled this type of management leadership-collaboration. — Jim Highsmith

Leadership produces change. That is its primary function — John P. Kotter

Every organisation, not just business, needs 1 core competence: Tactical execution — Tony Dovale

An Appreciative inquiry Conversation is the catalyst for strengths based innovation. — Tony Dovale

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

Change is not always easy when patterns in our lives have existed so long. — Lolly Daskal

Too few leaders have the emotional fortitude to take responsibility for failure. — Paul Gibbons

Unless people are convinced about what you are asking them to do, they are not going to make it happen. — Ravi Kant

Leaders need to sacrifice "power-over" to get "power-to". — Paul Gibbons