Quotes About Transformation

Water's power is rooted in its ability to conquer all on its path - often not by destroying things in an instant but by patiently eroding the land over time.

How can you make your change a matter of identity rather than a matter of consequences?

make a switch, you need to script the critical moves

If you're struggling to make a transition, create a defining moment that draws a dividing line between Old You and New You.

Culture change is difficult and slow. To have any chance to succeed, the meeting needed to deliver a jolt.

Make the change small enough that they can't help but score a victory.

It changed their attitude from reactive and critical to active and creative.

Suppose that you go to bed tonight and sleep well. Sometime, in the middle of the night, while you are sleeping, a miracle happens and all the troubles that brought you here are resolved. When you wake up in the morning, what's the first small sign you'd see that would make you think, 'Well, something must have happened—the problem is gone!'?

What's least commonsensical is that pits can sometimes be flipped into peaks.

Transitions should be marked, milestones commemorated, and pits filled.

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.

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

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

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.

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

The Springboard. Denning

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

If you've finished Switch and are hungry for more, visit the book's website: heathbrothers.com

Switch podcast series.

The Heart of Change, by John Kotter and Dan Cohen [Business and organizational change].

One Small Step Can Change Your Life, by Robert Maurer [Individual and organizational change]. If you liked the chapter on shrinking the change, this is your book. Maurer shows how small steps can lead to great change.

Warren Buffett said, "In the past, I've observed that many acquisition-hungry managers were apparently mesmerized by their childhood reading of the story about the frog-kissing princess. Remembering her success, they pay dearly for the right to kiss corporate toads, expecting wondrous transfigurations." Unfortunately, said Buffett, "We've observed many kisses but very few miracles.