People must know that their ideas will be listened to and, if they have merit, acted upon. If they do, it is possible to mobilize individual creativi…

- James A. Champy

When a change initiative is focused on changing a company's culture directly, it can take five to ten years to accomplish its objective. Company cult…

- James A. Champy

My engineering training taught me to be a systems thinker. I looked at companies as "systems" and saw work as a system of tasks - that needed to be r…

- James A. Champy

Very soon, most companies will need to have a global operating model - even if you only sell locally. Even mid-sized companies will source globally. …

- James A. Champy

I think that many people have lost their sense of loyalty to their company. That's because very few companies remain loyal to their people. The old "…

- James A. Champy

Most business leaders don't consider their own causality in the creation of problems. They fail to see that their company could have avoided breakdow…

- James A. Champy

A change initiative can fail for multiple reasons - in fact, there are just too many things that can go wrong. The focus of the initiative might be w…

- James A. Champy

There is not much new in management, but there is a lot new in business.

- James A. Champy

I think that we can all learn from what smart companies are doing. My objective is to demonstrate what's possible, even during tough economic times. …

- James A. Champy