Incremental Change Quotes

• Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.

  Larry Page

  Technology, Needs, Revolutionary

  "Larry Page lays out his plan for your future" by Marcus Wohlsen, www.wired.com. March 19, 2014.

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• . . . it is worth discussing radical changes, not in the expectation that they will be adopted promptly but for two other reasons. One is to construct an ideal goal, so that incremental changes can be judged by whether they move the institutional structure toward or away from that ideal. The other reason is very different. It is so that if a crisis requiring or facilitating radical change does arise, alternatives will be available that have been carefully developed and fully explored.

  Milton Friedman

  Change, Moving, Two

  Milton Friedman, Kurt R. Leube (1987). “The essence of Friedman”, Hoover Inst Pr

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• Incremental change is better than ambitious failure. . . .Success feeds on itself.

  Tal Ben-Shahar

  Ambitious, Success Failure

  Tal Ben-Shahar (2011). “Complete Guide to Being Happier (EBOOK BUNDLE)”, p.9, McGraw-Hill Professional

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• I am fascinated by tiny, incremental changes, almost imperceptible shifts in how people orient themselves in the world, because those are in some ways the most hopeful.

  Leni Zumas

  People, Hopeful, World

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don’t want to make an incremental change in some technology in my life. I want to create a whole new technology, and one that is aimed at helping humanity at all levels regardless of geography or ethnicity or age or gender.

  Elizabeth Holmes

  Technology, Ethnicity, Humanity

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• Look at Google. They are re-organizing their businesses ,even renaming it with Alphabet, so they can be bolder and make strategic mistakes and then learn from them. But most companies aren't Google in that they make incremental changes and don't go for the moon shot.

  Kabir Sehgal

  Mistake, Moon, Google

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Managers are trained to make incremental, programmatic improvements. They aren't trained to lead large-scale change.

  John P. Kotter

  Improvement, Scales, Managers

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• I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.

  Steve Jobs

  Done, Improvement, Revolutionary

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• In an increasingly non-linear economy, incremental change is not enough-you have to build a capacity for strategy innovation, one that increases your ability to recognize new opportunities.

  Gary Hamel

  Opportunity, Innovation, Strategy

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• In Burma, we are being told by so-called experts and some governments that we must be patient and that there can be incremental change through Parliament. The UN did this, and failed spectacularly, and while they did, the human rights situation got worse. The dictatorship ignored the UN and international community, making not a single concession. Now we are being told again these Parliaments are new, we should engage with them and if improved they can bring positive change. I don't place any hope in that.

  Zoya Phan

  Rights, Government, Community

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Where big data is all about seeking correlations - and thus to make incremental changes - small data is all about causations - seeking to understand the reasons why.

  Martin Lindstrom

  Data, Reason Why, Bigs

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change.

  David Suzuki

  Years, Perspective, Environmental

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• I was lucky enough to build on the work of a number of people who had already run laps around this theory-building track. The original classification scheme, years ago, distinguished radical from incremental change. The theory said that established firms managed incremental change well, but would be expected to founder when their industry encountered a radical change.

  Clayton Christensen

  Running, Years, Numbers

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• Like the battleships of old, omnibus programs present too tempting a target, too easily destroyed by a single attack, to make it through a fight.... It is through incremental change after change, step after step, that a statesman of today can vindicate a bold vision.

  Dick Morris

  Fighting, Political, Vision

  Dick Morris (2007). “The New Prince: Machiavelli Updated for the Twenty-First Century”, p.179, St. Martin's Press

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• The most important form of incremental change is the decision by the individual to become vegan. Veganism, or the eschewing of all animal products, is more than a matter of diet or lifestyle; it is a political and moral statement in which the individual accepts the principle of abolition in her own life. Veganism is the one truly abolitionist goal that we can all achieve - and we can achieve it immediately, starting with our next meal.

  Gary L. Francione

  Animal, Goal, Decision

  "Ethics of Animal Use". Book by Peter Sandøe and Stine B. Christiansen, 2013.

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• I hear music that comes out of need, out of grief, sorrow, suffering and out of overcoming these things, as well. That journey to freedom still goes on today. It's an incremental change, the culmination of many events in your own life and the lives of your children and grandchildren.

  Kathleen Battle

  Children, Grief, Journey

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