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Our educational standards, and in the longer term our regulatory standards, will need to change.
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90 |
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Starting about ten years from now [2023], the aging of the American population, combined with rising healthcare costs, will force on us some very radical fiscal changes.
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236 |
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People resist changes they see as harmful to them or the organization, and they gladly welcome changes that they see as helpful.
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440 |
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…change must emanate from the top and be continually sustained by it.
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441 |
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…culture change is a long journey because it is never done perfectly, even after a careful experimental introduction. We are dealing with human beings, and they never fail to surprise.
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454 |
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Little of lasting significance changes in an organization without the concurrence and involvement of the leadership.
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89 |
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…strong values – an inspiring purpose coupled with genuine cohesiveness as partners – generates a resilience that is immeasurably important as an organization’s conditions change.
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405 |
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…there are few if any periods since the Industrial Revolution in which the velocity of change has been as great or the changes as large and numerous and long-lasting as what we see today.
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406 |
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Adaptation of organization to changes in the business environment happen in two contexts: the needs of the human beings that are affected by the changes and the organizational culture.
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406 |
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Organizations need to change to cope with a changing environment and, in this endeavor, culture counts tremendously.
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406 |
