As you navigate the choppy waters of your next transformation initiative, here are my top 10 quotes on organizational change to help guide the way:
- “The sinkhole of change is communication and motivation. It’s where change projects go to die.” Nancy Rothbard
- “If you want to truly understand something, try to change it.” Kurt Lewin
- “The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday’s logic.” Peter Drucker
- “Understand that commitment to a major change is always expensive, and that you either pay for achieving it or pay for not having it.” Daryl Conner
- “You don’t change a culture by talking, you change it through action.” Mario Moussa
- “Adults are much more likely to act their way into a new way of thinking than to think their way into a new way of acting.” Richard Pascale
- “Culture isn’t just one aspect of the game. It is the game.” Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
- “Organizations are communities of human beings, not collections of human resources.” Henry Mintzberg
- “There is nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency something that should not be done at all.” Peter Drucker
- “Whatever got you here may well prevent you from getting there.” Marshall Goldsmith