A. Bartlett Giamatti Quotes

Whenever culture has gone through a radical change, as ours has - from industrial age to information age - there are people who will deny that things have changed; they resist it and refuse to change.

Sudden change, even if it is for the good, is disruptive.

All change means disorganization of the old and organization of the new.

The climate of our culture is changing. Under these new rains, new suns, small things grow great, and what was great grows small; whole species disappear and are replaced.

People have to evolve.

Any company has got to reinvent itself again and again.

Change is always a little bit strange.

Reorganization to me is shuffling boxes, moving boxes around. Transformation means that you're really fundamentally changing the way the organization thinks, the way it responds, the way it leads. It's a lot more than just playing with boxes.

It's been quite a 'pattern interrupt', a massive change of the old programming.

Change is rarely comfortable.

When cultural change succeeds, it succeeds because it's so embedded in what we do that we don't have to think about.

Change is never easy.

Change is such hard work.

The world is wrong side up. It needs to be turned upside down in order to be right side up.

Well, changes have been made. The question is whether we've done enough by way of change.

I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention.

Something is happening to Britain and the British. Or has happened. We are said to be passing through a transition, or a turning point, or a transformation; nobody is quite sure which.

There certainly have been a lot of changes, although they come in such gradations that most people have either forgotten, or, if they're too young, they never knew about them in the first place.

That's the method: restructure the world we live in in some way, then see what happens.

Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.

We do as much harm holding onto programs and people past their natural life span as we do when we employ massive organizational air strikes. However, destroying comes at the end of life's cycle, not as a first response.

Every single change is fought by those who would be affected by it.

We have shaken things up when necessary.

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

We’ve already decided to change. The question is: In which direction do we change, and from where do we start?