Best Change Leadership Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Many of the cataclysmic leadership failures were failures of rationality. The pendulum of leadership development needs to swing back toward the rational: strategy, creativity, foresight, decision-making, and analytics.”

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Book:The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

Source: The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

“Constructive feedback is leadership gift and driver of organisational behavioural change”

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Author:Peter F Gallagher

“The change "grief cycle", for some people, may be excitement, enthusiasm, engagement, effort, and excellence.”

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Book:The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

Source: The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

“The most damaging cognitive bias is overconfidence (illusory superiority), making leaders use their “gut” when they should be more rational.”

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Book:The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

Source: The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

“Psychological pseudoscience dies hard, especially when there are commercial interests at stake.”

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Book:The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

Source: The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

“Just stamping out anti-science and bad science will eliminate an enormous amount of business waste”

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Book:The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

Source: The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

“Develop a compelling change vision that inspires employees with purpose and is aligned to the organisation’s strategy, values and beliefs”

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Author:Peter F Gallagher

“People who appear to be resisting change may simply be the victim of bad habits. Habit, like gravity, never takes a day off.”

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Book:The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

Source: The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

“That which a team does not want to discuss, it most needs to discuss.”

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Book:The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

Source: The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

“Behaviorism was a busted flush, but neo-behaviorist theories, especially choice architecture, achieve behavioral change without coercion or the downsides of carrots and sticks.”

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Book:The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

Source: The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

“Mindfulness requires being a beginner. Setting absurdly high-standards, and being unwilling to be a novice, are the joint enemies of personal progress and change. Nobody benchpresses 100 kilos the first time they enter a gym.”

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Book:The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

Source: The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

“Too few leaders have the emotional fortitude to take responsibility for failure.”

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Book:The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

Source: The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

“Creating change-agile businesses will eliminate the need for what we today call change management.”

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Book:The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

Source: The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

“We need leadership books that offer information as well as inspiration. Pop leadership is one of the most destructive forces today.”

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Book:The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

Source: The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

“Leadership must evolve into a “science-based craft”, like surgery.”

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Book:The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

Source: The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

“Pop leadership abuts pop psychology, and is very destructive. In no other serious domain of human endeavor (surgery, playing the violin) is the subject distilled down to nice-sounding aphorisms that mean nothing.”

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Book:The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

Source: The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

“Humanity can not afford to have 21st Century businesses run on 20th Century science, and (worse) pseudoscience.”

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Book:The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

Source: The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

“Nothing remains the same and at some point in time, everything changes”

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Author:Peter F Gallagher

“Change Leadership is action, not a position”

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Author:Peter F Gallagher

“Life is all about 'Continuous Never Ending Change and Improvement' (CNECI) as we grow, develop and regenerate”

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Book:Change Management Handbook: The Leadership of Change Volume 3

Source: Change Management Handbook: The Leadership of Change Volume 3

“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”

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Author: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”

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Author: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?”

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Author: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”

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Author: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”

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Author: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”

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Author: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”

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Author: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”

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Author: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”

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Author: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”

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Author: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?”

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Author: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”

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Author:Peter F Gallagher

“Change resistance is inevitable, ignore it at your peril”

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Author:Peter F Gallagher

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

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Author:Peter F Gallagher

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

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Author:Peter F Gallagher

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

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Author:Peter F Gallagher

“Don't let Deepak Chopra manage your change program.”

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Book:The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

Source: The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

“Let's start a revolution, a revolution with no gun, but words and action to inspire the next generation. The truth should make us better human beings, it shouldn't create enemies out of ignorance. "IGNORANCE" got Liberia way, way back, because some of us were blind back then and failed to see the clear picture before. Before it was the Americo VS the Native. Today is corrupt educated or not so educated Liberian brothers and sisters against those people who they call illiterate. STAND FOR CHANGE AND SAY NO! ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!”

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Author:Henry Johnson Jr

“Tough change leaders remain immovable in times of intense pressure. They are resilient, not giving up hope in the presence of adversity.”

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Book:Be a Change Agent: Leadership in a Time of Exponential Change

Source: Be a Change Agent: Leadership in a Time of Exponential Change

“It's important to remember that peace, liberty and freedom changes many aspects in our thoughts as far as life is concerned.”

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Author:Oscar Auliq-Ice

“We must be drawn by the idea of where we want to go more than we dislike the idea of all the work it is going to take to get there.”

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Book:Lessons from the Castle: My Journey From Prince Charming to Executive Level Leader and How You Can Find The Legendary Leader Within

Source: Lessons from the Castle: My Journey From Prince Charming to Executive Level Leader and How You Can Find The Legendary Leader Within

“The path to a great achievement is sometimes tortuous, long, and complex. Change leaders must be resolute in bringing their vision to fruition.”

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Book:Be a Change Agent: Leadership in a Time of Exponential Change

Source: Be a Change Agent: Leadership in a Time of Exponential Change

“The present is the key that we have to the future. Today is the future that we changed yesterday.”

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Book:Be a Change Agent: Leadership in a Time of Exponential Change

Source: Be a Change Agent: Leadership in a Time of Exponential Change

“Change can be your friend; complacency is always your enemy.”

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Author:Matshona Dhliwayo

“Future proof your organisation by prioritizing service excellence and leadership innovation.”

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Author:Janna Cachola