…. can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe.
– Winston Churchill
Category Archives: Change
Every change…
…. looks like a failure in the middle
– Rosabeth M. Kanter
The idea of…
… a merit rating is alluring. The sound of the words captivates the imagination: pay for what you get; get what you pay for; motivate people to do their best, for their own good. The effect is exactly the opposite of what the words promise
– W Edward Deming
Change will not…
… come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek
– Barack Obama
The things…
…we fear most in organizations – fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances – are the primary sources of creativity
– Margaret Wheatley
Cautious…
…careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences
– Susan Anthony
Our lives…
… begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter
– Martin Luther King
A ship…
…. in the harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for
– William Shedo
Beware of…
… those who stand aloof and greet each venture with reproof. The world would stop if things were run by men who say ‘it can’t be done’
– Samuel Glove
I am…
personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a “transformer” in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader
– Stephen R. Covey
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