Managing Change & Transition!

• Identify changes you want in your PPF-Personal,Professional & Family Life!
• Be proactive about change-try to anticipate changes.
• Be prepared for change.
• NOTHING IS PERMANENT IN THIS WORLD, EXCEPT CHANGE.
• Live life by choice, not by chance.
• Manage people, to manage change.
• Try to come out of your comfort zone.
• Classify changes into:
• a. Predictable
• b. Unpredictable.
• Think long term to anticipate changes required.
• Have a visionary thinking.
• Be a wholistic change manager.
• Become a change agent - facilitator.
• Change induces stress - you've to live with it!
• Change is inevitable.
• Change requires risk taking.
• Have an open mind towards change.
• Be different, act different, but do not be indifferent.
• Have a Pro Change Personality(PCP).
• Do not allow your experience to confront change, sometimes change is good/better.
• Change induces vibrance.
• Make change a habit.
• "It is not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones who are most responsive to change" - Charles Darwin.
• "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit" - Aristotle.
• "I have not failed. I've just found 10000 ways that won't work" - Thomas Alva Edison.
• "They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. It is only the wisest and the stupidest that do not change." - Confucius.
• "In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy" - J Paul Getty.
• "To cope with a changing world, an entity must develop the capacity of shifting and changing - of developing new skills and attitudes; in short, the capacity of learning" - A De Gues.
• "We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden. Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Useful references:

a. Wikipedia
b. Answers.com
c. “Workshop on Managing Change & Transition" by Dr.Shailendra Gupta
d. www.amaindia.org