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Change before you have to. -- Jack Welch
The great growling engine of change - technology. -- Alvin Toffler
Slowness to change usually means fear of the new. -- Phil Crosby
The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order. -- Alvin Toffler
It is always easier to talk about change than to make it. -- Alvin Toffler
Why this reluctance to make the change? We fear the process of reeducation. -- Isaac Asimov
The Lesson is, we all need to expose ourselves to the winds of change -- Andy Grove
The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress. -- Charles Kettering
The future is coming so fast, we can't possibly predict it; we can only learn to respond quickly. -- Steve Kerr
If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near. -- Jack Welch
Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while. -- Jack Welch
In fact, people themselves are responsible for making the status quo so resistant to change. We are trapped by our own behavior. -- Chris Argyris
Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time. -- Alvin Toffler
The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor. -- Alvin Toffler
People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters. -- Bill Gates
Innovation requires us to systematically identify changes that have already occurred in a business - in demographics, in values, in technology or science - and then to look at them as opportunities. It also requires something that is most difficult for existing companies to do: to abandon rather than defend yesterday. -- Peter Drucker
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing. -- Warren Bennis
The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy. -- Lajos Kossuth
The truth is that no internal reviews or congressional hearings will change the Secret Service's broken management culture. It needs better leadership. -- Ronald Kessler
We live in a world where the laws are getting so tight that management has changed to micro-management to quantum-management to paralysis. -- Jane Siberry
I'm impatient. Typically people think they know all about change and don't need help. Their approach tends to be more management-oriented than leadership-oriented. It's very frustrating. -- John P. Kotter
Obama can't change his cool disposition, though it would be nice if he lost the vaguely grudging air he gives off that problems of management get in the way of ideas. -- Tina Brown
Successful weight management really means a permanent change in lifestyle - and success in this arena provides that person with a great opportunity to model that behavior for friends and family. -- Francis Collins
When I came into the CEO office, I basically changed the entire management team. We knew that we had to change the company, so we needed a new set of leaders. -- Hans Vestberg
Because management deals mostly with the status quo and leadership deals mostly with change, in the next century we are going to have to try to become much more skilled at creating leaders. -- John P. Kotter
As we get more transparent with data sets about infrastructure and systems management, I have a feeling we'll see big changes in how we think about complexity and our relationship to our actions. -- Aaron Koblin
For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men. -- Isabel Allende
Unions can play a valuable role in large organisations where it is difficult to talk to a thousand people. They can negotiate annual pay awards with management, represent grievance cases, and explain and advise on complicated changes in employment or pension law. -- Jim Ratcliffe
Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country. -- Edmund Phelps
In terms of the actual curriculum for management education, my own view is very simple-minded: The world is incredibly complex, it changes all the time, and we should not even hope that we could create a general model that accurately describes the world in all its possible states. -- Dan Ariely
I think a very good system in a world with a lot of passive investors is one in which there are at least a few entrepreneurial investors, prepared to say what they think, prepared to propose a change in management, change in strategy, change in cost structure, capital structure. -- Bill Ackman
Imagine if the pension funds and endowments that own much of the equity in our financial services companies demanded that those companies revisit the way mortgages were marketed to those without adequate skills to understand the products they were being sold. Management would have to change the way things were done. -- Eliot Spitzer
Earlier, my priority was only work. I worked like a dog before I got married. After marriage, once you have a baby, time management is difficult. Your responsibilities change, your priorities change. And you have to concentrate on them if you have to work out your life. Your career is just a part of your life. For me, my family is my life. -- Kajol
The survival of love depends on the management of change. -- Ari Kiev
Management that wants to change an institution must first show that it loves that institution. -- John Tusa
Management is the gate through which social and economic and political change, indeed change in every direction, is diffused though society. -- Robert McNamara
The 'fear of change' excuse is something you see trotted out by organizations or management that believe customers are old, stupid, ignorant, and stubborn. -- Ian Lamont
Convincing a leader of the value of front-line ideas alone is rarely enough for that person to overcome years of entrenched bad habits and to change his management style. -- Dean M. Schroeder

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