Acceptance…

Acceptance of change is dependent upon the validity of both of the competence and intent of those leading

– Paradigms of Leadership

Change…

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots

– Victor Hugo

I see…

I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.

– Anne Frank

Organisational structures…

Organisational structures that allow divisions and departments to own their turf and people with long tenure to take root, create group distinctions which makes it easier to resist compromise and prevent collaboration

– Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Nobody can…

Nobody can force change on anybody else. It has to be experienced. Unless we invent ways by which paradigm shifts can be experienced by large numbers of people then change will remain a myth

– Eric Trist

As for…

As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it

– Antoine de Saint-Exupery

We would…

We would rather be ruined than changed,
We would rather die in our dread
Than climb the cross of the moment
And let our illusions die.

– W. H. Auden

The greatest….

The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence – it is to act with yesterday’s logic

– Peter F. Drucker

Change is….

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

Nobody can….

Nobody can force change on anybody else. Change has to be experienced. Unless we invent ways where paradigm shifts can be experienced by large numbers of people, change will remain a myth

– Eric Trist