Quotes about Change

We've frequently been trapped by things that used to work well but no longer do.

If you stop thinking that you must change the world, you lift a tremendous burden off yourself and the people around you. There's no longer this convenient excuse for why it has to be all work all the time. The opportunity to do another good day's work will come again tomorrow, even if you go home at a reasonable time.

You'll often hear that people don't like change, but that's not quite right. People have no problem with change they asked for. What people don't like is forced change—change they didn't request on a timeline they didn't choose. Your "new and improved" can easily become their "what the fuck?" when it is dumped on them as a surprise.

If you want to make a product better, you have to keep tweaking, revising, and iterating. The same thing is true with a company.

Later is where excuses live. Later is where good intentions go to die. Later is a broken back and a bent spirit. Later says "all-nighters are temporary until we've got this figured out." Unlikely. Make the change now.

This real world sounds like an awfully depressing place to live. It's a place where new ideas, unfamiliar approaches, and foreign concepts always lose. The only things that win are what people already know and do, even if those things are flawed and inefficient.

In this world very few leaps of progress arrive exclusively as benefits

If you still want people in the office every day, change that requirement to every afternoon instead. Then let your troops have their mornings to themselves.

In fact, for many, the hybrid approach is the right place to start. If you still want people in the office every day, change that requirement to every afternoon instead. Then let your troops have their mornings to themselves. You may be surprised to find out more work gets done this way.

Evolution doesn't linger on past failures, it's always building upon what worked. So should you.

Say no by default If I'd listened to customers, I'd have given them a faster horse. —HENRY FORD It

Once ego and pride are on the line, you can't change your mind without looking bad. The desire to save face trumps the desire to make the right call.