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You can change only what people know, not what they do. — Scott Adams

The psychological theories that inform day-to-day business practices are comprised mostly of folk-psychology, fads, and myths. — Paul Gibbons

In fact, people themselves are responsible for making the status quo so resistant to change. We are trapped by our own behavior. — Chris Argyris

A hardness to change reveals a hardness of heart. — Gary Rohrmayer

We need to learn ourselves before we can understand what really annoys us! — Auliq Ice

You can change your life to become YOUR life — Eddie De Jong

Most businesses would profit greatly from just applying Change Management 101 well. — Paul Gibbons

Time is a treasure on earth. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Leading change means bringing people with you to a better state than any of you could have envisaged alone. — A.J. Sheppard

The survival of love depends on the management of change. — Ari Kiev

Strategy, role-model, systems thinking, trust, relationship management, balance, etc., are all important culture change principles. — Pearl Zhu

Time kills essence! Don't give people reasons to say you wasted your time! Use your time well now! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Control your own Destiny or somebody else will — Jack Welch

When business leaders talk about the next quarter, they ought to sometimes be talking about the next quarter century. — Paul Gibbons

Leaders are the human catalyst that overcomes our desire for the status quo. — Scott Hammerle

The gap between thought and action, between belief and will, prevents us solving our most pressing individual and societal problems. — Paul Gibbons

There was nothing scientific about Scientific Management (Taylorism), and neither was it good management. — Paul Gibbons

Change is not always easy when patterns in our lives have existed so long. — Lolly Daskal

You must embrace change before change erases you. — Rob Liano

We must be drawn by the idea of where we want to go more than we dislike the idea of all the work it is going to take to get there. — Scott Hammerle

Good change-management
requires the right mix of urgency and empathy. — A.J. Sheppard

Leadership produces change. That is its primary function — John P. Kotter

Changes are inevitable and not always controllable. What can be controlled is how you manage, react to and work through the change process. — Kelly A. Morgan

Some of those who are resisting change most strongly are only doing so because they care. They're the ones you need to be listening to. — A.J. Sheppard

Those who disrupt their industries change consumer behavior, alter economics, and transform lives. — Heather Simmons

Transformation rarely happens accidentally. — A.J. Sheppard

Change shouldn't be treated as a singular occurrence when it is an ongoing, continued process and dynamic capability within the organization. — Pearl Zhu

A poor attitude does not do the body any favours. Smile and the world will smile back at you. — Maurice Duffy

Strategic-operational KPIs alignment gives the organization a powerful tool to use when implementing change. — Pearl Zhu

People who appear to be resisting change may simply be the victim of bad habits. Habit, like gravity, never takes a day off. — Paul Gibbons

It's taken years, but part of my own personal growth has involved deciding that I can learn something from even the most annoying person. — Auliq Ice

Change Management can become more successful with people at the core of change, the cause of change and the purpose of change. — Pearl Zhu

Selecting the right measure and measuring things right are both art and science. And KPIs influence management behavior as well as business culture. — Pearl Zhu

Life is constantly teaching us that we are mirrors of one another and that no one is an island! — Auliq Ice

Business people need to understand the psychology of risk more than the mathematics of risk. — Paul Gibbons

Rethink change: Make change management irrelevant through Appreciative Leadership Innovation focused Expectations (ALIFE) — Tony Dovale

Leaders need to sacrifice "power-over" to get "power-to". — Paul Gibbons

The future is coming so fast, we can't possibly predict it; we can only learn to respond quickly. — Steve Kerr

Strategy has no value if your culture and leadership mindset are wrong — Tony Dovale

Your habit of avoiding mental and emotional discomfort is your #1 reason for your being stuck where you are in life. — Tony Dovale

In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. — Eric Hoffer

Every organisation, not just business, needs 1 core competence: Tactical execution — Tony Dovale

Exponential Results Requires Exponential Thinking and High Performance Teamworking with Growth Oriented Mindsets. — Tony Dovale

Professional management was born from the desire to optimize and control, not to lead waves of change. — Scott Berkun

We have good leadership only by chance, not by management.

And we need to change that! — Amit Chatterjee

It is very important to understand why those annoying people annoy you and then figure out where that fits into your world. — Auliq Ice

People don't change that much. Instead of trying to put in what God left out, try drawing out what God left in! — Curt Coffman

ReThink culture, because it is the foundation of all strategic success. — Tony Dovale

Too few leaders have the emotional fortitude to take responsibility for failure. — Paul Gibbons

It is always easier to talk about change than to make it. — Alvin Toffler

If your business still needs to change, isn't it likely that your thinking needs to change first? — A.J. Sheppard

The hard part of ReThinking, is most people don't usually do much normal REAL thinking anyway. They live their lives on automatic reaction. — Tony Dovale

Change Management = The human side of change. — Pearl Zhu

The change "grief cycle", for some people, may be excitement, enthusiasm, engagement, effort, and excellence. — Paul Gibbons

An Appreciative inquiry Conversation is the catalyst for strengths based innovation. — Tony Dovale

Innovation is the change, Change Management needs to be an integral part of innovation management. — Pearl Zhu

Take time to regularly assess how you spend your time. Be ready to make changes that suit the goals pursue at a particular time. — Israelmore Ayivor

When rate of problems is greater than rate of solutions, only radical changes can make the difference. — Sukant Ratnakar

Master Yourself and you master your environment! Such is the nature of wisdom. — D. Nicole Williams

Don't buy into the campaign that people don't like change. We are built for it. — Stacy Feiner

You mustn't let your emotions get the better of you. There is a great deal to be angry about, but anger doesn't change things. — Gemma Malley

By your choices you reveal your commitments. — Marlene Chism

Any change holds an opportunity. — Daniel Egger

WHY has no value, if you cannot rethink resourcefulness in a limited context. — Tony Dovale

Green light, STOP - if you want to see where you are taking the most risk, look where you are making the most money. — Paul Gibbons

All organizations are perfectly designed to get the results they are now getting. If we want different results, we must change the way we do things. — Tom Northup

Life is a dance more than it is an assertion and there is more health in dynamism or fluidity than there is rigidity and stasis. — Oli Anderson

The purpose of people-centric Change Management is to build an ongoing change capability. — Pearl Zhu

Certain barriers do require a critical mass of action at the right time to overcome the inertia that is greater than incremental change. — David Jaber

Perhaps the difficulty in measuring Change Management is that the very thing we are measuring is changing. — Pearl Zhu

Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet — Henry Mintzberg

I never wanted to be a businessman, I just wanted to change the world — Richard Branson

Knowing your feelings won't change the facts, but knowing the facts can change your feelings. — Marlene Chism

Unless people are convinced about what you are asking them to do, they are not going to make it happen. — Ravi Kant

The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy. — Lajos Kossuth

We need leadership books that offer information as well as inspiration. Pop leadership is one of the most destructive forces today. — Paul Gibbons

The key to behavioral change is to pass behavioral control to the environment. — Paul Gibbons

Why this reluctance to make the change? We fear the process of reeducation. — Isaac Asimov

Don't let Deepak Chopra manage your change program. — Paul Gibbons

Management that wants to change an institution must first show that it loves that institution. — John Tusa

Creating change-agile businesses will eliminate the need for what we today call change management. — Paul Gibbons

Change the rule and you will get a new number. — W. Edwards Deming

Awareness is the first step of Change Management, it starts from the mindset level. — Pearl Zhu

Many call this process 'the destruction of nature.' But it's not really destruction, it's change. Nature cannot be destroyed. — Yuval Noah Harari

It is time to euthanize change management. — Paul Gibbons

Change the way you think and you will change the way you feel. — Charmaine Smith Ladd

The notion of "business as usual" is a harmful myth. — Paul Gibbons

IF we don't start to rethink how we are acting now ... We will pay the price later for our "old-stinking-thinking" style — Tony Dovale

Change is disturbing when it is done to us, exhilarating when it is done by us. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter