Quotes About Change

expecting every moment some awful change, some diabolical sneer to disfigure the dear face bending over you

As soon as the pegs were driven in and the game started, the man was transfigured. From his habitual, slow, ponderous, rather rigid self, he changed into a terrifically mobile, scampering, mute, sly-visaged hunchback.

Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.

Shift from convergence to divergence

The hardest battle is simply to make people aware of the need for a strategic shift and to agree on its causes

Every blue ocean will eventually be imitated and turn red

Technology is not a defining feature. You can create blue oceans with or without it.

there is no such thing as a riskless strategy Strategy will always involve both opportunity and risk

In blue oceans, competition is irrelevant because the rules of the game are waiting to be set.

We hoped to push managers to create innovative proposals and break the boundaries of their conventional thinking.

Value innovation is not the same as technology innovation.

nos aferramos a lo que conocemos, incluso a sabiendas de que no deberíamos

Red oceans may not be the paths to future profitable growth, but they feel comfortable to people and may have even served an organization well until now, so why rock the boat?

Tal como nos decía uno de los ejecutivos de Virgin Group, «no debemos permitir que lo que podemos hacer ahora condicione nuestro punto de vista sobre lo que se necesita hacer para ganar mañana. Nuestro enfoque es de pizarra limpia».

executives are often reluctant to accept the need for change; they may have a vested interest in the status quo, or they may feel that time will eventually vindicate their previous choices. Indeed, when we ask executives what prompts them to seek out blue oceans and introduce change, they usually say that it takes a highly determined leader or a serious crisis.

industry history shows, new market spaces are being created every day and are fluid with imagination.

A rising call for creative new solutions. Just look at a broad swath of industries that matter fundamentally to who we are: health care

Unless people believe that the strategic challenge is attainable, the change is not likely to succeed.

What a blue ocean strategist recognizes, and what most of us all too often forget, is that while industry conditions exist, individual firms created them. And just as individual firms created them, individual firms can shape them too

Thus in the far-away Southern village the world lay waiting, half consciously, the coming of two young men, and dreamed in an inarticulate way of new things that would be done and new thoughts that all would think. And yet it was singular that few thought of two John's, -- for the black folk thought of one John, and he was black; and the white folk thought of another John, and he was white. And neither world thought the other world's thought, save with a vague unrest.

I have found that when players break their habitual patterns, they can greatly extend the limits of their own style and explore subdued aspects of their personality.

Awareness of what is, without judgment, is relaxing, and is the best precondition for change

Perhaps the most indispensable tool for human beings in modern times is the ability to remain calm in the midst of rapid and unsettling changes.

2 and 2 are 4. 4 and 4 are 8. But what would happen If the last 4 was late? And how would it be If one 2 was me? Or if the first 4 was you Divided by 2?