"When a change initiative is focused on changing a company's culture directly, it can take five to ten years to accomplish its objective. Company cultures don't change easily. My friend Peter Drucker used to argue that company cultures don't change at all."

-- James A. Champy

#Culture Quotes #Arguing Quotes #Initiative Quotes

“Chance ... must be something more than the name we give to our ignorance.”

Source : Henri Poincare (2012). “The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare”, p.666, Modern Library
“I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.”
“[About the demand of the Board of Regents of the University of California that professors sign non-Communist loyalty oaths or lose their jobs within 65 days.] No conceivable damage to the university at the hands of hypothetical Communists among us could possibly have equaled the damage resulting from the unrest, ill-will and suspicion engendered by this series of events.”
“On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.”
“You make mistakes as a parent. Then you wish you hadn't said that, or you wish you hadn't told them how to dress. You cringe.”
“The enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan.”
“Doing stand-up takes the fun out of being funny.”
“It doesn't service anyone any to say, "This is a terrible violation in any circumstance always," because that robs us of our ability to write our own lives. I've had people cheat on me and it's been devastating, and I've had people cheat on me and felt that it showed their true colors.”

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