Change Quote by Tom DeMarco Download Open image “If nothing is declared unchangeable, then the organization will resist all change.” — Tom DeMarco ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Change Ifs Organization Unchangeable
“If nothing is declared unchangeable, then the organization will resist all change. When there is defining vision, the only way the organization can define… — Tom DeMarco Copy Share Image
Change is the norm; unless an organization sees that its task is to lead change, that organization will not survive. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The organization that can't communicate can't change, and the corporation that can't change is dead. — Nido R Qubein Copy Share Image
“A changeable organization is to creating organizations where change is the norm and happens the whole time.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
You cannot say that something is unchangeable as long as you don't even know what that is or the rules that govern it. — Mariana Fulger Copy Share Image
A significant idea of organization cannot be obtained in a world in which everything is necessary and nothing is contingent. — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
The unchangeable can only be realised in silence. Once realised, it will deeply affect the changeable, itself remaining unaffected. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
The only thing that can be safely predicted is that sometime soon your organization will be challenged to change in ways for which it… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
You can't build an adaptable organization without adaptable people - and individuals change only when they have to, or when they want to. — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
Change requires individuals who recognize that new things can be done and who take the initiative to get them done ... The existing bureaucracies,… — Lester Thurow Copy Share Image
“More important than any gimmick you introduce is a change in attitude. People must learn that it’s okay sometimes not to answer their phones,… — Tom DeMarco Copy Share Image
“We have become so obsessed with getting rid of people who are burdened with the characterization overhead that we have ended up with organizations… — Tom DeMarco Copy Share Image
The more you focus on control, the more likely you're working on a project that's striving to deliver something of relatively minor value. — Tom DeMarco Copy Share Image
“Internal competition has the direct effect of making coaching difficult or impossible.” — Tom DeMarco Copy Share Image
“The most obvious defensive management ploys are prescriptive Methodologies (“My people are too dumb to build systems without them” ) and technical interference by… — Tom DeMarco Copy Share Image
“The need for uniformity is a sign of insecurity on the part of management. Strong managers don’t care when team members cut their hair… — Tom DeMarco Copy Share Image
“If you’ve got decent people under you, there is probably nothing you can do to improve their chances of success more dramatically than to… — Tom DeMarco Copy Share Image
“While this [10 to 1] productivity differential among programmers is understandable, there is also a 10 to 1 difference in productivity among software organizations” — Tom DeMarco Copy Share Image
Training is practice doing a new task much more slowly than an expert would do it. — Tom DeMarco Copy Share Image
If you find yourself concentrating on the technology rather than the sociology, you're like the vaudeville character who loses his keys on a dark… — Tom DeMarco Copy Share Image
Only within yourself exists the other reality for which you long. I can give you nothing that has not already its being within yourself.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I can't believe that I'm sitting in meetings with Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, and Annette Bening. I want to take on that responsibility to… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
“…progress isn't necessarily about change but about things turning out as we want them to” — Phil Hogan Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Your world will change whether or not you choose to change, but you have the power to choose it's direction. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
“Stay focused on bringing people together and more on positive messaging so that you can be the change you wish to see in the… — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
The biggest change for me as a mom was realizing I needed to put someone else before me. Now the hardest part about the… — Kim Alexis Copy Share Image
“After the funeral, my life changed. I felt as if time were suddenly precious, water going down an open drain, and I could not… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
You practice mindfulness, on the one hand, to be calm and peaceful. On the other hand, as you practice mindfulness and live a life… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
