Change Strategy Quotes

Designing and implementing a strategy for change is a waste of time until you have discovered and embraced the current reality. If you don't know where you really are, it is impossible to get where you need to be.

One of the most common ways to overcome resistance to change is to educate people about it beforehand. Communication of ideas helps people see the need for and the logic of a change. The education process can involve one-on-one discussions, presentations to groups, or memos and reports.

I think that in order to make revolution, you need to make reforms, but you should make these reforms with revolution in mind.

Until we start thinking in terms of revolution instead of compromise the Church will continue to pat itself on the back with token steps of renewal.

We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.

Our focus has to be on changing reality, not changing laws.

If you want to make change, 'Show me how' can be a stronger, more effective approach than 'Just say no.' That's what I think.

In an interview with Univision, President Obama said if there's one thing he's learned, it's that you can't change Washington from within. So what is he saying - that if we want real change, we should throw him out?

If it's not a hit, switch.

If you want to change something, you’ve got to go where the people are.

The most effective way to manage change is to create it.

In a change effort, culture comes last, not first.

When you're coming into a company and, you know, have to do a transformation, what you really want to do is look at the company and say, 'Okay, here are the parts that the company does well. How do we get those genes to hyper-express? The genes that are getting in the way, how do you turn those off?'

Before you can change your industry positively, you need to understand how to go about doing so.

If you wish to draw off the people from a bad or wicked custom, you must beat up for a march; you must make an excitement, do something that everybody will notice.

Worrying about a problem is not a strategy for change.

If we're going to change leadership, we need to do it in a very systematic and organized way.

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

Most organizations fail in driving change.

It's fine to be an activist, but you're not - if you're not putting up candidates, if you're not getting political, if you're not in your party, then you're probably not going to have long-term change. You will probably dissipate.

I have a somewhat sneaky way of effecting political change.

Change is a process which has to be managed. If it's managed and managed well in the interest of the nation and the people, the likelihood is that it will end well.

I think the way to change it is to handle issues individually when it's essential to do so.

I adapt more to the match for the second set.

If they are truly nonviolent, they must also realize that civil disobedience is an impossibility till the preliminary work of construction is done.