… has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless… someone’s got to make a wake up call
– Warren Bennis
Tag Archives: Change
We know…
… that leadership is very much related to change. As the pace of change accelerates, there is naturally a greater need for effective leadership
– John Kotter
Twenty years…
… from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
– Mark Twain.
As one…
… person I cannot change the world, but I can change the world of one person.
– Paul Shane Spear
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 B. Anthony
In the end…
.. it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
– Max De Pree
Without…
…continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, success and achievement have no meaning.
– Benjamin Franklin
Change is…
… hard because people overestimate the value of what they have and underestimate the value of what they may gain by giving that up.
– James Belasco
The productivity and…
… competitive problems American manufactures face result from ineffective top management, petrified in place, unwilling to accept change, failing to provide vision and leadership.
– Phillip Alspach, HBR 1986
Dreaming…
… is the first step to becoming. To dream of the time ahead is to welcome an inner fold of reality we long for but have not yet realized. It is an act not just of hope but of inspiration.
– Paul H. Ray and Sherry Ruth Anderson
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