Quotes in change

Time makes more converts than reason.

Change brings opportunities. On the other hand, change can be confusing.

There is nothing permanent except change.

95% of changes made by management today make no improvement.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.

You're either part of the solution or part of the problem.

I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

It is one of the favourite pastimes of management to decide, from within their professional ivory tower, what help the field organisation needs and then to design and develop programs for meeting these needs.

Then it becomes necessary to get the field organisation to accept the help provided. This is normally the role of the Change Manager; to implement the change that no-one asked for or wants.