Quotes About Change

Big changes can start with very small steps. Small changes tend to snowball. But this is not the same as saying that change is easy.

In times of change, you may not know what options are available. And this uncertainty leads to decision paralysis as surely as a table with 24 jams.

It can sometimes be challenging, though, to distinguish why people don't support your change. Is it because they don't understand or because they're not enthused? Do you need an Elephant appeal or a Rider appeal?

Until you can ladder your way down from a change idea to a specific behavior, you're not ready to lead a switch. To create movement, you've got to be specific and be concrete. You've got to emulate 1% milk and flee from the Food Pyramid.

Learn to recognize your own scripts. Play with them, poke at them, disrupt them.

Novelty even changes our perception of time.

In this chapter, we've seen that what looks like a "character problem" is often correctible when you change the environment. The

Moments that break the script are critical for organizational change. They provide a demarcation point between the "old way" and the "new way.

Simple tweaks of the Path can lead to dramatic changes in behavior.

action triggers can have a profound power to motivate people to do the things they know they need to do.

Action triggers simply have to be specific enough and visible enough to interrupt people's normal stream of consciousness. A

Rescue—if people are facing a daunting task, and their instinct is to avoid it, you've got to break down the task. Shrink the change. Make the change small enough that they can't help but score a victory. Once

If you want to change things, you've got to appeal to both. The Rider provides the planning and direction, and the Elephant provides the energy. So if you reach the Riders of your team but not the

big changes come from a succession of small changes. It's OK if the first changes seem almost trivial. The challenge is to get the Elephant moving, even if the movement is slow at first.

Are you better off now than you were four years ago?" Ronald Reagan famously posed

The most basic way to get someone's attention is this: Break a pattern. Humans

To change yourself or other people, you've got to change habits

The first thing to realize is that even small environmental tweaks can make a difference

forming a habit isn't all environmental—it's also mental.

When you engineer early successes, what you're really doing is engineering hope. Hope is precious to a change effort. It's Elephant fuel.

The Springboard. Denning

Life is full of "form letter in an envelope" moments, waiting to be transformed into something special.

there's a good reason why change can be difficult: The world doesn't always want what you want.

When you engineer early successes, what you're really doing is engineering hope. Hope is precious to a change effort.