Change Management: sayings, quotations & slogans

Compiled by Steve Foster, Leiden

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

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 philospherwho never traveled further than he could walk)

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`experienceschanges, growth, development, decay….

• Other naturally-occurring changes are learning and forgetting; these can be understood & influenced