Change Management Quotes

“Success comes from the inside out. In order to change what is on the outside, you must first change what is on the inside.”
― Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability

“In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.”
― Eric Hoffer

“Changes are inevitable and not always controllable. What can be controlled is how you manage, react to and work through the change process.”
― Kelly A. Morgan

“The things of your life arrived in their own time, like a train you had to catch. Sometimes this was easy, all you had to do was step onto it, the train was plush and comfortable and full of people smiling at you in a hush, and a conductor who punched your ticket and tousled your head with his big hand, saying, Ain’t you pretty, ain’t you the prettiest girl now, lucky lady taking a big train trip with your daddy, while you sank into the dreamy softness of your seat and sipped ginger ale from a can and watched the world float in magical silence past your window, the tall buildings of the city in the crisp autumn light and then the backs of the houses with laundry flapping and a crossing with gates where a boy was waving from his bicycle, and then the woods and fields and a single cow eating grass.......
.....Because sometimes it was one way, easy, and sometimes it was the other, not easy; the things of your life roared down to you and it was all you could do to grab hold and hang on. Your old life ended, and the train took you away to another...”
― Justin Cronin, The Passage

“Many call this process 'the destruction of nature.' But it's not really destruction, it's change. Nature cannot be destroyed.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, קיצור תולדות האנושות

“You must embrace change before change erases you.”
― Rob Liano

“Effective change communication is at the heart of successful change, it acts like the blood in our bodies, but instead of supplying vital oxygen and nutrients, communication supplies information and motivation to the impacted stakeholders”
― Peter F Gallagher

“If you do not change employee behaviour, you will not get organisational change and performance improvement"​”
― Peter F Gallagher

“Nothing remains the same and at some point in time, everything changes”
― Peter F Gallagher

“Change Leadership is action, not a position”
― Peter F Gallagher

“Life is all about 'Continuous Never Ending Change and Improvement' (CNECI) as we grow, develop and regenerate”
― Peter F. Gallagher, Change Management Handbook: The Leadership of Change Volume 3

“The business environment is constantly evolving. Economic fluctuations, technological disruptions, regulatory shifts, and competitive pressures demand that companies be able to adjust their goals and strategies.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr., Board Room Blitz: Mastering the Art of Corporate Governance

“Too often the change team will engage a leader with success delusion, this look is obvious on their face when you enter their office. They think to themselves, ‘Who is this plebeian and dullard before me?’"
Change Management Handbook - The Leadership of Change Volume 3”
―  Peter F Gallagher

“The change question all leaders should be able to answer
Do you have a change vision, are you aligned on your strategic objectives, are you a high performing team and does you team have change leadership skills to lead the change or improvement that your organisation is facing?”
― Peter F Gallagher

“The best leadership teams have purpose, they are aligned on their strategic objectives, they are a high performing team and have change leadership skills to navigate 4IR”
― Peter F Gallagher

“Fixed mindset leaders will quickly contaminate an organisation by killing growth and creativity, as well as promoting incompetence based on their likeness. This cycle will be replicated unless shareholders intervene ruthlessly”
― Peter F Gallagher

“We are all cosmopolitan, what we are born into is an accident of birth, respect for difference, growth and learning is who we are”
― Peter F Gallagher

“I once knew one person in a leadership position who promoted diversity, unfortunately their policy excluded groups that were not aligned to his demeanour”
― Peter F Gallagher

“A typical response when starting a change journey and engaging organisational leaders, it is not us, it is the employees below me that have the problem with change and improvement”
― Peter F Gallagher

“Many leaders get to the top of an organisation with skills less associated to leadership, but more the ability to eliminate greater competition on the way”
― Peter F Gallagher

“It doesn’t matter which continent I am working in; I typically encounter three-employee change standpoints: Advocates, Observers and Rebels. However, to successfully implement organisational change management, we must engage, communicate and entice these three employee groups to get buy-in, change adoption and benefits realisation”
― Peter F Gallagher

“There are 3 groups of employees in any change journey: ‘Advocates’, ‘Observers’ and ‘Rebels’. Each reacts differently to organisational change and will have different levels of resistance”
― Peter F Gallagher

“To the trolls, my work is about people, leadership and change. If the scribe reminds me of Churchill, dog and stone, then I have already wasted time”
― Peter F Gallagher

“Constructive feedback is leadership gift and driver of organisational behavioural change”
― Peter F Gallagher

“From my experience, I see a high number of change initiatives fail, so why is it that change experts and leadership coaches continually praise organisations for their great efforts?”
― Peter F Gallagher

“The micro facial expression of contempt when engaging leaders about preparing for their organisation's change is often the norm, matched only by their leadership of change knowledge”
― Peter F Gallagher

“Change resistance is inevitable, ignore it at your peril”
― Peter F Gallagher

“Change waits for no leader and the skills required for leading day-to-day operations are very different to change leadership”
― Peter F Gallagher

“Organisational change leadership is about effectively and proactively articulating the vision, modelling the new way and intervening to ensure sustainable change”
― Peter F Gallagher

“Change Blindness is a condition, where people cling to an old belief without considering the future or better options”
― Peter F Gallagher