Daarom moeten (de) heersers hier bij ons, die vele jaren hun heerschappij hebben uitgeoefend en daarna hebben verloren, niet het lot de schuld geven, maar hun eigen slapheid. Want omdat ze in rustige tijden nooit aan een mogelijke verandering van de toestand gedacht hebben (een veel voorkomende fout bij mensen: bij goed weer geen rekening houden met de storm), waren ze er, toen er later tijden van tegenspoed aanbraken, alleen maar op bedacht om de vlucht te nemen en niet om zich te verdedigen.

Nicolló Machiavelli

Reengineering cannot be entrusted to the semi-competent, the hangers-on with nothing better to do.

Michael Hammer & James Champy

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

Blaise Pascal

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.

John C. Maxwell

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Peter F. Drucker

Four goals of improvement: 1) make things easier 2) better 3)
faster and 4) cheaper

Shigeo Shingo

Verandering is één, vooruitgang is iets anders. ‘Verandering’ is wetenschap, ‘vooruitgang’ is ethiek; verandering kent geen twijfel, maar vooruitgang komt voort uit een scala van verschillende opvattingen.

Bertrand Russell

You can't do today's job with yesterday's methods and still be in business tomorrow.

Alfred Chandler

There are times at which it is right not to listen to customers.

Clayton Christensen

A relentless barrage of “why’s” is the best way to prepare your mind to pierce the clouded veil of thinking caused by the status quo.  Use it often.

Shigeo Shingo

Forget the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the Industrial Revolution - ours is the golden age of innovation.

Gary Hamel

Not to innovate is the single largest reason for the decline of existing organizations.

Peter F. Drucker

When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.

Larry Ellison

In times of change, the learners will inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

Eric Hoffer

In a world that's changing so quickly, you're guaranteed to fail if you don't take any risks.

Mark Zuckerberg

Paradigma’s hebben een enorme invloed; ze vormen de lens waardoor we naar de wereld kijken. Een paradigmawisseling – of die nu plotseling of geleidelijk gecreëerd wordt – is de belangrijkste kracht achter een radicale verandering.

Stephen Covey

The most dangerous phrase in the language is: 'we've always done it this way'.

Grace Hopper

Creative ideas reside in people's minds but are trapped by fear of rejection. Create a judgement-free environment and you'll unleash a torrent of creativity.

Alex Osborn

Adaptive and evolutionary systems by their nature involve experimentation. Since the way ahead is a gray zone, if we want progress, we must experiment.

Mike Rother

Noodzaak is de moeder van de uitvinding.

Plato

Change is inevitable for any organization. Without change, it is impossible for an organization to retain its dynamic elasticity which is needed to respond to the calls of its surrounding environment.

Abdulmuhsen Ayedh Alqahtani & Sanad A. Alajmi

When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

Ronald Reagan

When to use iterative development? You should use iterative development only on projects that you want to succeed.

Martin Fowler

Change before you have to.

Jack Welch

We lijden alleen als we willen dat de dingen anders zijn dan ze zijn.

Epictetus

De snelheid van verandering zal nooit meer zo langzaam zijn als vandaag.

Carl Heser.

Change almost never fails because it's too early. It almost always fails because it's too late.

Seth Godin

Het moeilijkste is niet om nieuwe ideeën te hebben want die komen vanzelf. Het moeilijkste is om de oude ideeën los te laten en dat gaat niet vanzelf…

Dee Hock

Be clear about your goal but be flexible about the process of achieving it.

Brian Tracy

Cause change and lead;
accept change and survice;
resist change and die.

Ray Norda

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Lao Tzu

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old but on building the new.

Socrates

The Agile Manifesto was written to express shared values of people who saw a new way of developing software. (...) I perceive that many in our industry will continue to build better and better software based on these values

Ken Schwaber

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old but on building the new.

Socrates

It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.

Albert Einstein

Innovation is the creation of the new or the re-arranging of the old in a new way.

Michael Vance

Survival is optional. No one has to change.  

W.E. Deming

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.

Tom Peters

Endless conversation about change is the barrier. Actually committing to doing something and then acting is what is required.

David Jakes

Aangezien alles op aarde in beweging is en stilstand niet bestaat, zal er altijd vooruitgang of verval zijn, en zullen keuzes die je verstandelijk afwijst je vaak worden opgedrongen.

Niccoló Machiavelli

Er is niets moeilijker om aan te pakken, gevaarlijker om uit te voeren, of onzekerder in haar slagen dan de leiding te nemen bij het invoeren van een nieuwe ordening van zaken, omdat de vernieuwer vijanden heeft in allen die goed deden onder de oude omstandigheden en weinig geestdriftige verdedigers in allen die het misschien goed zullen doen onder de nieuwe omstandigheden.

Machiavelli

Hoop heeft twee dochters, woede en moed, woede over nu, moed om te veranderen.

Augustinus

Wie grote plannen heeft, neemt de tijd.

Sophokles

"Change starts at the top." That's true--but only when change has been long-stymied from below.

Gary Hamel ?

Organizations that do nothing but measure the numbers rarely create breakthroughs. Merely better numbers.

Seth Godin

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.

Martin Luther King

I'm as proud of many of the things we haven't done as the things we have done. Innovation is saying no to a thousand things.

Steve Jobs

You can’t start a fire without a spark

Bruce Springsteen (Dancing in the dark)

Change means movement. Movement means friction.

Saul Alinsky

The starting point for improvement is to recognize the need.

Masaaki Imai