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Nothing undermines change more than behavior by important individuals that is inconsistent with the verbal communication.

— John Kotter

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We keep a change in place by helping to create a new, supportive, and sufficiently strong organizational culture.

The Heart of Change (2002)

Never underestimate the power of the mind to disempower.

The Heart of Change (2002)

Never underestimate the power of a good story.

The Heart of Change (2002)

Changing behavior is less a matter of giving people analysis to influence their thoughts than helping them to see a truth to influence their feelings.

The Heart of Change (2002)

A culture truly changes only when a new way of operating has been shown to succeed over some minimum period of time.

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Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

To say that the future will be different from the present is, to scientists, hopelessly self-evident.

Robert F. Kennedy

He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

Samuel Johnson The Idler (1758)

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. (Weil die Dinge sind, wie sie sind, werden die Dinge nicht so bleiben wie sie sind.)

Bertolt Brecht Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations (1976)

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