Quotes About Change

The world of tomorrow will not be created out of thin air either. It will come from the convergence of a wide variety of accelerating technologies.

strategic planning is less useful, what replaces it? Strategic experimentation.

Don't underestimate technology.

Pick just one trend that you consider unstoppable—5G, sensor technology, big data, AI, blockchain, quantum computing, nanotechnology, robotics, 3D printing, biotechnology, synthetic biology, renewable energy, augmented reality, virtual reality, satellite technology, genomics, gene editing, online education, etc.—and research how it is already impacting your industry.

Standing has the added benefit of making people uncomfortable. As a result, it tends to focus people's minds and move them to action that much faster.

Emerging technologies may not revolutionize the business world tomorrow, but they will transform it sooner than many people expect. Therefore, anticipate cheapness.

When exactly the virus got on an airplane and departed Wuhan isn't exactly known, but the world changed that day. It underwent a "phase change.

The questions Wile E. Coyote—and all business leaders—must ask themselves are these: How has my environment changed? How soon must I stop doing what I have been doing? And how do I change course?

Others include "The Vowel" rule: How do we need to Adapt? How is our world Evolving? How can we Innovate? Can we Organize differently? What do we need to Unlearn? WhY do we do things the way we do them?

Next, think about the future for one simple reason—you are going to spend the rest of your life in the future.

You are young; you have hopes. One by one they will go, and nothing will be left but the bare fact of life.

Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.

Don't manage - lead change before you have to.

If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.

Face reality as it is, not as it was, or as you wish it to be.

When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.

In the space of a few, bright years, something new stirred in this land; something unprecedented; something wonderful; and men, being men, perceived it with stunned awe and then, being men, destroyed it without thought, for being new and strange.

Don't get stuck with one pedal down and one pedal up.

what it is formed into.

Your danger is something other than death, and uglier. Because she will try to change you—to arouse something in you that should never be awakened.

You don't know who your friends are ... until you're not like them anymore.

If there is one 'constant' in the structure and theme of the wonder tale, it is transformation.

The literary fairy tale became an acceptable social symbolic form through which conventionalized motifs, characters, and plots were selected, composed, arranged, and rearranged to comment on the civilizing process and to keep alive the possibility of miraculous change and a sense of wonderment.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.