Some quotations, sayings and slogans I have seen/heard about change management. Feel free to add your own visuals, select and augment this posting results of SS.
2. Selected Quotations
“The only constant in organizations today is
change. “ … Charles Handy
“All management is change management”
… Partner, Ernst & Young
> “Very often it’s not that people don’t like change,
it’s that people hate to BE changed.” … Geert Heling
“Whatever the level or degree of organizational
change, the people on the receiving end are (all)
individual human beings” … Cameron & Green
3. Pithy and Humorous sayings
Failure to change invites extinction (Advertisment)
Darwin never predicted survival of the fittest, he
predicted survival of the most adaptive.
Another word for Change Agency is ‘Leadership’
The only people who really like change are wet
babies and street-corner beggars
‘I will’ (motto of Chicago), `Yes, we can` (Obama
campaign slogan, 2008), I. Kant (German philospher
who never traveled further than he could walk)
4. Other `Change wisdom`
• Everything is in flux, it`s a naturally-occurring
process.
• Resistance to change is as naturally-occurring as is
change itself.
• Change varies in speed, direction and impact, but it
is never-ending.
• Everything possessing a `life cycle`experiences
changes, growth, development, decay….
• Other naturally-occurring changes are learning and
forgetting; these can be understood & influenced