Slow and steady wins the race.

Aesop

It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new. This coolness arises partly from fear of the opponents, who have the laws on their side, and partly from the incredulity of men, who do not readily believe in new things until they have had a long experience of them.

Niccolò Machiavelli

All that is not information, not redundancy, not form and not restraints - is noise, the only possible source of new patterns.

Gregory Bateson

The reality is that today’s organisations were simply never designed to change proactively and deeply.

Gary Hamel

If you can't solve a problem, then there is an easier problem you can solve. Find it.

George Polya

Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I cannot say whether things will get better if they change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.

Georg Lichtenberg

Neither stability nor change have any intrinsic value. The worth of stability is in the goodness it preserves, while the worth of change is in the goodness it brings about.

Don Ely

People don’t determine their future.
They determine their habits, which determine their future.

John C. Maxwell

Yes, we need to start with a purpose, a direction, a target. From there we experiment to move towards it. And learn along the way.

Katie Anderson

It’s easier to act your way into a new way of thinking, than think your way into a new way of acting.

Jerry Sternin

In tijden van snelle verandering kan ervaring  je grootste vijand zijn.

J. Paul Getty

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

John F. Kennedy

The hardest thing for competitors to emulate is a fundamental change.

Eliyahu M. Goldratt

When people are operating within their comfort zone, you can expect open minds and action; when they are pushed outside their comfort zone, expect hesitance and resistance.

Eliyahu M. Goldratt

When the why gets stronger, the how gets easier.

Jim Rohn

Entrepreneurs deal with change by not trying to create hierarchies

John P Kotter

I often make the mistake of only asking what people want rather than observing what they need.

Jurgen Appelo

Change is difficult. It’s hard, and people avoid it when we can, but change eventually happens when the consequences of standing still look worse than the consequences of taking a chance on change. It’s time for all of us to change — standing still is not an option, and we can only imagine the disruptions ahead.

Denis Pombriant

If a process of ongoing improvement is to be effective, we must first of all find — What to Change.

Eliyahu M. Goldratt

Automation is good, so long as you know exactly where to put the machine.

Eliyahu M. Goldratt

Experiments don’t come with a guarantee of success, unless learning is the goal.

Esther Derby

Patterns are a symptom, not a cause, and there is seldom only one cause.

Esther Derby 

I feel the most important point in common  between sports and work is the continuing need for practice and training. It is easy to understand a theory with the mind. The problem is to remember it with  the body. The goal is to know and do instinctively. Having the spirit to endure the training is the first  step on the road to winning.

Taiichi Ohno

The problem with transformation is never a lack of ideas; it’s a lack of a change in behavior

Barry O'Reilly

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Lao Tzu

Change doesn’t start with a vision, change starts with where you are.

Esther Derby  

I never did anything worthwile by chance. My inventions were never created by change. I worked for them.

Thomas Alva Edison

When change programs fail it is because the attempt was non-systemic. Change in performance requires a change to the system.

John Seddon

To improve our methods of change, we need to understand more about what actually governs people's behavior. Deming and Juran demonstrated that people's behavior is governed by the system they work in. It was a finding which went against the accepted wisdom of their time and remains outside prevailing management thinking.

John Seddon

Scrum is not a methodology. Scrum replaces a pre-programmed algorithmic approach with a heuristic one, with respect for people and self-organization in order to deal with unpredictability and to solve complex problems.

Gunther Verheyen

As a Change Agent you can’t make change happen, but you can create an environment that increases the odds.

Henrik Kniberg

A storyteller, like  travel agent can help gather us up from wherever we are, and put us down in another setting.

John Leggett

It's easier for companies to come up with new ideas than let go of old ones.

Peter F. Drucker

If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance a lot less.

Tom  Feltenstein

If change is to occur, it must coe about through hard work within the organization itself.

Gordon Lippitt

Voorbeeldgedrag is de enige top-down-veranderstrategie die werkt.

André Wiersma.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.

Blaise Pascal

When the winds of change blow,
some people build walls and others build windmills.

Chinees spreekwoord

Het draait uiteindelijk niet om strategie, structuur, cultuur of systemen. De kern van de zaak is altijd het veranderen van het gedrag van mensen.

John Kotter

Many of results of Kanban are counterintuitive. What appears to be very mechanical approach - limit WIP and pull work - actually has profound effects on people and how they interact with one another.

David Anderson

Mensen vragen altijd: ‘Is de verandering voorbij? Kunnen we nu stoppen?’ Je moet hen dan vertellen: ‘Nee, het is pas begonnen.’ Leiders moeten een atmosfeer creëren waarin mensen begrijpen dat verandering een continu proces is, geen eenmalige gebeurtenis.

Jack Welch

Mensen vragen altijd: ‘Is de verandering voorbij? Kunnen we nu stoppen?’ Je moet hen dan vertellen: ‘Nee, het is pas begonnen.’ Leiders moeten een atmosfeer creëren waarin mensen begrijpen dat verandering een continu proces is, geen eenmalige gebeurtenis.

Jack Welch

Nothing pleases people more than to go on thinking what they have always thought, and at the same time imagine that they are thinking something new and daring: it combines the advantage of security and the delight of adventure.

T.S. Elliot

Bijna niets werkt goed top-down behalve het goede voorbeeld.

- Onbekend

Pure pragmatism can't imagine a bold future. Pure idealism can't get anything done. It is the delicate blend of both that drives innovation.

- Simon Sinek

The world is changed by examples, not by opinions.

Paulo Coelho

Kleine stapjes zijn too small to fail.

Jos Burgers