Quotes About Change

You start out with one thing, endup with another, and nothing'slike it used to be, not even the future.

When I was young, I was older than I am today.

Our situation is intolerable, but what's worse is to sit here and do nothing.

There is not going to be any change unless we can begin to talk about any little fear, any little hatred, any little bias that we might have and to admit that all human beings have them.

Perhaps it is the setting; rules tend to reduce their grip when you cross borders.

What I think it should have done was realize that preparing customers for transitions is just like getting them through the new product adoption process, except in reverse.

knights and no outside-the-industry saviors. Interestingly, and also consistent with the findings of other researchers over the years, the most senior leaders generally kept a low profile.

decline, downsizing, near death, desperation, bet the company, and revival that characterizes so many corporate histories (such as Nokia, IBM, Procter & Gamble, and many others).

So before you let people blunder around reinventing the process every time someone gets the urge to innovate, it makes sense to understand it first.

wrenching change seldom characterizes strategic shifts at the outlier companies

So even in firms that embrace change and appear to manage it well, there are elements of tremendous stability in their businesses.

allowing an existing structure to remain in place for too long creates inertia and results in an organization that is maladapted to the opportunities it finds.

Organizations have habits. And they will cling to their habits at the expense sometimes of their own survival.

that the speed of the new economy has caused people and firms to believe they don't have time to implement tools

rather than heavy annual budgeting processes and efficiency-oriented values, the outlier firms invest in increasing their flexibility, even if this might lead to a small degree of

Jake didn't like this turn

If the world was truly a rational place, men would ride sidesaddle.

Unfortunately, Susan didn't remember what Jane Fulton once said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.

Unfortunately, Susan didn't remember what Jane Fulton once said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.

unfortunately, facts are often a lagging indicator of what could potentially be important. By the time you are dealing with a fact on the ground, whatever led to it has already happened.

the relationship between strategic degrees of freedom and signal strength is practically inverse. In the unfair way in which life operates, the moment at which you have the richest, most trustworthy information is often the moment at which you have the least power to change the story told by that information.

I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.

Today we're going to be like the earth, spinning around and affecting many.

We didn't come for the revolution. We came for breakfast.