Kevin Kelly Quotes

We started Kotter International to improve leaders' ability to deal with big, important transformations in organizations - and in their lives.

Culture change means we will do things differently.

We know that leadership is very much related to change. As the pace of change accelerates, there is naturally a greater need for effective leadership.

My goal is to change NXT. It is to change every company I've ever been to, and I've changed every company.

The transformation will come from leadership.

Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.

To me, success in the job is setting a vision, guiding an organization through change - which is exactly what I did at Digitas, and I'm very proud of that - and bringing people together and with you. That, to me, is what it takes to be successful.

I'm impatient. Typically people think they know all about change and don't need help. Their approach tends to be more management-oriented than leadership-oriented. It's very frustrating.

If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.

Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.

When we talk about change, we, the business leaders, have to implement it. We have to look at what we're not doing and what we should be doing.

You have to seed internal disruptors. You need sources of internal disruption. They don't guarantee your survival, but you have got to try.

Companies can change. Culture can change.

To survive and succeed, every organization will have to turn itself into a change agent

You must be on top of change or change will be on top of you.

Leaders make things better and that requires change.

Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.

A leader's job is to look into the future and see the organization, not as it is, but as it should be

There is an inexorable correlation between leadership and change.

A corporation is a living organism; it has to continue to shed its skin. Methods have to change. Focus has to change. Values have to change. The sum total of those changes is transformation.

Change is the norm; unless an organization sees that its task is to lead change, that organization will not survive.

If I can impact an executive and his or her team, I can help to change the culture of an organization.

Change before you're forced to change.

It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you.

Every successful organization has to make the transition from a world defined primarily by repetition to one primarily defined by change. This is the biggest transformation in the structure of how humans work together since the Agricultural Revolution.