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If you talk about change but don’t change the reward and recognition system, nothing changes.

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“There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.” —Aldous Huxley

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“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.”—Thomas Jefferson

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Tools soon get rusty if they are left in the toolbox!
Ideas are useless unless used.

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Nothing dies faster than a new idea in a closed mind.

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The best photograph in the world is no good if it is still in somebody’s camera.

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Even if you are on the right track, you get run over if you just sit there!

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The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shinning.

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What is the use of running when we are on the wrong side?
Direction is more important than speed.

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The harder we try, the luckier we are.

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If your organization stops improving - it starts falling!

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Change….. before your customers change their minds.

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If we really want to communicate a change in direction and a change in approach, what we need to do as senior managers is demonstrate that we are going to live by a new set of rules and play by these rules.

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Today’s good concepts are good only for today.

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Change is a friend when we manage it; it is a disaster if we just change to change.

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The only thing that is going to remain constant around here is the need for CHANGE!

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Quality is about continuously rejecting the status quo.

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If we really want to communicate a change in direction and a change in approach, what we need to do as senior managers is demonstrate that we are going to live by a new set of rules and play by these rules.

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Today’s good concepts are good only for today.

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Change is a friend when we manage it; it is a disaster if we just change to change.

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The only thing that is going to remain constant around here is the need for CHANGE!

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Quality is about continuously rejecting the status quo.

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