Changes are inevitable and not always controllable. What can be controlled is how you manage, react to and work through the change process.
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Changes are inevitable and not always controllable. What can be controlled is how you manage, react to and work through the change process.
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Managers who don’t lead are quite discouraging, but leaders who don’t manage don’t know what’s going on. It’s a phoney separation that people are making between the two.
– Henry Mintzberg
If we are all in agreement on the decision – then I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until our next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement and perhaps gain some understanding of what the decision is all about.
– Alfred P. Sloan
The most difficult step is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. Your fears are paper tigers; you can do anything you decide to do
– Amelia Earhart
Business requires understanding financial matters, but management is different from running the financial aspects of the business – it requires understanding complex systems, how they operate, the nature of organisations, what happens when people interact in groups and how to motivate and guide people.
– Rosabeth Moss Kanter
If you feel like it’s difficult to change, you will probably have a harder time succeeding
– Andrea Jung
Successful careers are not planned. They develop when people are prepared for opportunities because they know their strengths, their method of working and their values
– Peter F Drucker
So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality, nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit.
– Christopher McCandless
After living with their dysfunctional behaviour for so many years people become invested in defending their dysfunctions rather than changing them
– Marshall Goldsmith
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves
– Viktor Frankl