Manor Resources - Insights and ideas

Change Quotes

	"… it is possible to achieve quite respectable productivity with middling commitment and morale …In such a system, superficial answers to critical questions produce adequate results, and no one demands more.!

Chris Argyris, HBR July-August 1994.

	"There is nothing permanent except change."

Heraclitus

	" A leader is best when people barely know he exists. When his work is done, his aim is fulfilled. They will say - we did this ourselves."

Lao Tse

	"It is the thinking that has to be changed and also the method of operating. It is not enough merely to have a new policy: new methods of organisation are required, because, the policy is in the implementation."

E F Schumacher

	"Throughout the unknown, we'll find the new."

Charles Baudelaire

	"Look abroad thro' Nature's range, Nature's mighty law is change."

Robert Burns


	"Change is not what it used to be."

Charles Handy

	"Strangely enough, this is the past that somebody in the future is longing to go back to."

Ashleigh Brilliant

	"The trouble with the future is that it usually arrives before we're ready for it."

Arnold H Glasow

	"Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everybody gets busy on the proof."

John Kenneth Galbraith

	"We have met the enemy, and he is us!"

Pogo (Does anyone know the more optimistic sequel to this quotation?)

	"You must learn to look beyond the centre to the fringes of an organisation if you want to see where the new rules are developing." "Sometimes your paradigm can become the paradigm. We need to guard against 'Paradigm paralysis ... a terminal disease of certainty'."

Joel Barker

	"They stumble that run fast"

Shakespeare

AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN FIVE SHORT CHAPTERS
	I walk down the street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I fall in. I am lost ---- I am helpless It isn't my fault. It takes forever to find a way out.

	I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I pretend I don't see it. I fall in again. I can't believe I am in the same place. But it isn't my fault. It still takes a long time to get out.

	I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I see it is there. I still fall in ---- its a habit --- but, my eyes are open. I know where I am. It is MY fault. I get out immediately.

	I walk down the same street There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I walk around it!

	I walk down ANOTHER STREET.

With acknowledgement to the unknown author