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• ‟ The rate of change is not going to slow down anytime soon. If anything, competition in most industries will probably speed up even more in the next few decades.

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• ‟ Because management deals mostly with the status quo and leadership deals mostly with change, in the next century we are going to have to try to become much more skilled at creating leaders.

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• ‟ Managers are trained to make incremental, programmatic improvements. They aren't trained to lead large-scale change.

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• ‟ Leadership is always about change: it's not about mobilising people to do what they've always done well to continue to do it well.

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• ‟ If the culture you have is radically different from an 'experiment and take-risk' culture, then you have a big change you going to have to make - and no little gimmicks are going to do it for you.

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• ‟ It's very difficult to innovate without requiring people to do something different. And whenever you require people to do something different, you're talking about change.

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• ‟ I am often asked about the difference between 'change management' and 'change leadership,' and whether it's just a matter of semantics. These terms are not interchangeable.

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• ‟ The vast majority of large scale change efforts fail. Which means that the probability that you have actually experienced a failure, and your people know that and are pessimistic, therefore, about trying something again, is very high.

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• ‟ I'm impatient. Typically people think they know all about change and don't need help. Their approach tends to be more management-oriented than leadership-oriented. It's very frustrating.

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• ‟ Kotter International is about leading large-scale change, not just managing it.

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• ‟ Over the years I have become convinced that we learn best - and change - from hearing stories that strike a chord within us.

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• ‟ Innovation is kind of a sub-piece of change.

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