Quotes About Change

Larry E. Greiner's classic Harvard Business Review article titled "Evolution and Revolution as Organizations Grow

So how do you figure out an X-Factor? Start by asking: What is the one thing I hate most about my industry? What is driving me nuts? What is the choke point constraining the company? It could be a massive cost factor. It could be a massive time factor. The challenge is that you're often too close to the situation and as blind as everyone else to the real problems that have been accepted as industry norms.

All executives and middle managers should have a coach (or peer coach) holding them accountable for behavioral changes. We

Remember, your company is a living organism that needs to survive in an environment that's always changing. To thrive, it has to be able to adapt. Charles Darwin found that survival is determined by the ability to adapt to circumstances.

Charles Darwin found that survival is determined by the ability to adapt to circumstances.

if Romeo had lived to see Juliet grow old and develop a slight moustache upon her upper lip—what then?

The larger themes of the new signature progressivism were identity politics, radical environmentalism, and redistributionism.

saw rearming as reactionary and coming at the expense of achieving social justice.

when we all went to the universities, when we abandoned what made us good & embraced what made us comfortable & secure, we lost something essential, knew we lost it & yet chose to lose.

As we see, the priority stays with creatively changing the situation that causes us to suffer. But the superiority goes to the "know-how to suffer," if need be.

We must never forget that we may also find meaning in life even when confronted with a hopeless situation, when facing a fate that cannot be changed. For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a triumph, to turn one's predicament into a human achievement. When we are no longer able to change a situation... we are challenged to change ourselves.

If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.

Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.

Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water.

There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.

Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this is recognised: that the human race has been harshly treated, but that it has advanced.

No force on earth can stop an idea whose time has come

To destroy abuses is not enough; Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there. ~old man G--- to Monseigneur Bienvenu Myriel

One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.

More powerful than the mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.

It all seemed to him to have disappeared as if behind a curtain at a theater. There are such curtains that drop in life. God is moving on to the next act.

Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.