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Nothing endures but change.

No one ever hinted that the skills and tools that I so crafted in my youth, would become obsolete so early in my adulthood.

– R. Rabideau

Many people go through life doing the same things over and over but expecting different results.

Managers cope with change. Leaders cause it and make the competition change.

– John Kolter

Manage change and conflict or it will manage you.

– Terry Paulson

Leadership is about change… The best way to get people to venture into unknown terrain is to make it desirable by taking them there in their imaginations.

Just because everything is different doesn’t mean anything has changed.

– Southern California Oracle

It’s not so much that we’re afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it’s that place in between that we fear…It’s like being between trapezes. It’s Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There’s nothing to hold on to.

– Marilyn Ferguson

It’s always easier to ride the horse in the direction that it’s going.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times … it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us.

– Charles Dickens

It isn’t the changes that do you in, it’s the transitions.

– William Bridges

It should be borne in mind that there is nothing more difficult to arrange, more doubtful of success, and more dangerous to carry through than initiating changes. The innovator makes enemies of all those who prospered under the old order, and only lukewarm support is forthcoming from those who would prosper under the new. Their support is lukewarm … partly because men are generally incredulous, never really trusting new things unless they have tested them by experience.

– Niccolo Machiavelli

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but rather the one most responsive to change.

It is far more important that one’s life should be perceived than it should be transformed; for no sooner has it been perceived, than it transforms itself of its own accord.

Instead of constantly adapting to change, why not change to be adaptive?

– Merrelyn Emery

In today’s world there are two kinds of companies … the quick and the dead.

In times of change, learners shall inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.

In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.

In the wisdom of uncertainty lies the freedom from our past, from the known, from the prison of past conditioning. Uncertainty is the fertile ground of creativity and freedom.

– Deepak Chopra

In such a chaotic and complex environment, where changes and crises occur so rapidly, how can any organization hope to create a specific set of rules governing employee behavior? Most innovative organizations are rapidly replacing rules with roles, creating a strong sense of purpose and clear understanding of goals and mission and leaving employees to their own devices, absent rigidity.

– Richard W. Oliver

In a world where the outrageous has become the norm, stable organizations make no sense.

In any situation, ask yourself: What strengths do I possess that can contribute towards accomplishing something in this situation? Then follow through.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

If you’re not riding the wave of change … you’ll find yourself beneath it.

If you want to truly understand something, try to change it.

If you want to make an enemy, try to change someone.

If you want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.

– Giuseppe di Lamedosa

If you have always done it that way, it’s probably wrong.

– Charles Kettering

If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.

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