Organisational Change Management Volume 1

Some Interesting Quotes on Models/Frameworks

"...All models are wrong......some models are useful..."

Edward Deming, 1980

"...The value of the model is not in its predictive power but in its power to catalyse reflective conversations..."

Andrea Shariro, 1999

"...There is no science of transformation, only an art..."

Fortune Magazine, 1996

"...a mountain of theory built on a molehill of evidence..."

Geoffrey Carr as quoted by Bill Bryson, 2004

"...Every business's change initiative is unique..."

Michael Beer, 2000

"...NMBA = No More Bloody Acronyms..."

David Mair, 2000

"...YAA (yet another acronym)..."

Seth Godin, 2007

"...Our change models are not keeping pace with change..."

Di Bolton, 2004

"...a stunning common human tendency to take a new concept, new data, or new way of thinking and morph it so that it fits one's existing mental models..."

Clayton Christensen et al, 2003

"...there are too many factors to lay down fixed rules..."

David Hains as quoted by Andrew Cornell, 2009a