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Major organizational changes create uncertainty. -- Irene Rosenfeld
Nothing so undermines organizational change as the failure to think through the losses people face. -- William Bridges
In most organizational change efforts, it is much easier to draw on the strengths of the culture than to overcome the constraints by changing the culture. -- Edgar Schein
It's generally much easier to kill an organization than to change it substantially. -- Kevin Kelly
I do think a founder has special permission to make sweeping changes across an organization. -- Michael Dell
If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization. -- Mary Douglas
If I can impact an executive and his or her team, I can help to change the culture of an organization. -- Srikumar Rao
You can't build an adaptable organization without adaptable people - and individuals change only when they have to, or when they want to. -- Gary Hamel
An employee who's one of hundreds, rather than one of a few, is unlikely to feel personally responsible for helping the organization adapt and change. -- Gary Hamel
I take mentoring very seriously and I am on the board of an organization called Girls Write Now, where we match teen girls and writing mentors because it changes their lives. -- Tayari Jones
I've seen, all too often in my career, people coming in to lead agencies and organizations and trying to impose change from the top down. Never works. You never have enough time. -- Robert M. Gates
An organization's reason for being, like that of any organism, is to help the parts that are in relationship to each other, to be able to deal with change in the environment. -- Kevin Kelly
Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you're likely to have issues. -- Larry Page
Organizations want small changes in functionality on a more regular basis. An organization like Flickr deploys a new version of its software every half hour. This is a cycle that feeds on itself. -- Kent Beck
In most organizations, change comes in only two flavors: trivial and traumatic. Review the history of the average organization and you'll discover long periods of incremental fiddling punctuated by occasional bouts of frantic, crisis-driven change. -- Gary Hamel
I think in all cultural organizations there has to be renewal. I'm also of a certain age that someone new can come in with a breath of fresh air. Things change, and I think that's important. -- Zarin Mehta
Outside of being an actress, I feel like being out is the biggest way that gay people can change perception. There are people that give millions of dollars to gay organizations but are closeted to their own families. -- Jill Bennett
We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries. -- H. G. Wells
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. -- Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
Every successful organization has to make the transition from a world defined primarily by repetition to one primarily defined by change. This is the biggest transformation in the structure of how humans work together since the Agricultural Revolution. -- Bill Drayton
The church wasn't an organization in the first century. They weren't writing checks or buying property. The church has matured and developed over the years. But for some reason, the last thing to change is the structure of leadership. -- Andy Stanley
The best way to make change is to know how something works. If you're going to go build something or change whatever it is, if you don't know how it works and you're trying to go make a change in it, the first thing you're doing is you're spending time figuring out how it works. The same thing happens in organizations. -- Brian Krzanich
We keep a change in place by helping to create a new, supportive, and sufficiently strong organizational culture. -- John P. Kotter

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