“The best organizational change is useless unless it is implemented and becomes part of how people do their work”
"Awareness is the greatest agent of change"
"If change is to occur, it must come about through hard work within the organization itself."
"Understanding is continuous and dynamic. What one understood yesterday may not be relevant today"
"The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn."
“Change is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change”
Charles Darwin
“Data is directional, Change is emotional”
Dan Feliciano (GE MBB)
“There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come”
Victor Hugo
“Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare
you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity”
R.I. Fitzhenry
"Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple."
Charles Mingus
"The world is moving so fast these days that the one who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it."
Harry Emerson Fosdick
"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."
Henry Ford
"Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life."
Sandra Carey
"Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly."
Stephen R. Covey
"The most difficult problem to solve is employee indifference: people closing their eyes and choosing to do nothing."
Katsuvoshi Ishihara
“ Problems breed problems and the lack of a disciplined method of openly attacking them breeds more problems."
Philip Crosby
“An old error is always more popular than a new truth."
German Proverb
"You can't do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow."
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
Aristotle
“Change is disturbing when it is done to us, exhilarating when it is done by us”
Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School
"Survival is not compulsary. Improvement is not compulsary, but improvement is necessary for survival"
W. Edwards Deming
“They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel”
Carl W. Buechner
“An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.”
Jack Welch
"Sharing knowledge is not about giving people something, or getting something from them. That is only valid for information sharing. Sharing knowledge occurs when people are genuinely interested in helping one another develop new capacities for action; it is about creating learning processes"
Peter Senge
"knowledge is the "force within" the organization"
"Knowledge is power but knowledge shared is power squared"
"Intellectual Capital must be converted into working capital – otherwise, it is nothing more than goodwill on a Balance Sheet"
”Trust is the bandwidth of communication” (Karl Eric Sveiby)
”Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It is the life-blood of an organization.
When people have a high degree of trust in each other - they work together extremely effectively” (Stephen Covey)
"Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them" Albert Einstein
"Change is the only constant" Heraclitus
"A stumble may prevent a fall" Proverb
"While all can see the tactics by which the battle is won, none can see the strategy by which the enemy is defeated" Sun Tzu, The Art of War
" When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness" Joseph Campbell
"The rate at which organizations learn may become the only sustainable competitive advantage" (Peter Senge)