The ancient Roman poet Ovid is best known for his poem, Metamorphoses, which trumpets change and transformation.
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President Obama and Panetta have their agenda of change and transformation.
Recently, I was in a meeting where the CIO of an organization undergoing IT transformation shared that keeping the right perspective is the key to getting through with the ups and downs facing the IT teams during the change accompanying transformation.
The change continues a transformation going back to the Times' 2003 purchase of The Washington Post Co.
He has written extensively about driving transformation change, and you can find a very informative article here.
So even when leaders identify the big opportunity to accelerate change, the transformation never gets off the ground or rapidly runs out of steam.
The approach to legal billing needs to change but such a transformation can only be realized when a deep analysis of the industry is done to reveal the true drivers of rates.
Our man Ed Colligan said of the switch, "There are a lot of moving parts here, but the goal is to bring in a transformation and change the dynamics of the company, " er... okay.
Everyone has an agenda for transformation and change.
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Only through behavioral change can information become transformation.
She said that "we support this Day to emphasize the importance of freedom of expression and free flow of diversified opinions because Media - old and new, print or broadcasting, text-based or visual - have an increasingly important power to boost dynamic and positive change, positive social transformation in the country".
Agile transformation has to do with change, the being side of the equation.
This cultural transformation was marked by a change in the growth rate of return on assets from -8.7% to 14.1% over 11 years.
Personal transformation before enterprise or organizational change.
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As he said to me yesterday, he is concerned that the current wave of protest votes against excessive executive pay could turn out to be a passing fad - and he therefore wants a constitutional change that would lead to a permanent transformation of big institutional shareholders into properly informed and engaged proprietors.
Over the last half-dozen years, the town has experienced a transformation more dramatic than the welcome change in seasons.
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Just as telling as the change in selling methods, however, is a transformation in what is sold.
It unnerves people, and as a result, they often under communicate and send inconsistent messages about the change, both of which lead directly to stalled transformation efforts.
The slow transformation of the LAPD was not the only change wrought by the riots.
It has a portfolio of activities and partners, with programs spanning advocacy, market transformation, community-based conservation and climate change.
In his view, a corporate transformation never really ends for would-be change agents.
Where you as the leader may be part of the problem in the mutual learning process, it may be necessary to ask a third party inside the organization, or a consultant from outside the organization to facilitate the transformation, or the resolution of a tough change issue.
The idea is to change three small behaviors everyday and use those as a springboard for further transformation.
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We predict the future by dreaming big, but sometimes the small innovations and the transformation of something like a phone into a portable computer are what really change the world.
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Mr Mayo was seen by City analysts as the brains behind Marconi's transformation from a diversified group into a firm focused on telecoms, a change which left the company worryingly vulnerable to the downturn in technology markets.
But officials are wary of reading too much into the mini-boom in tourism, noting that to the outside world eastern DR Congo remains "a war zone" and that although there are some signs of positive change, the country is a long way from emulating neighbouring Rwanda's dramatic transformation.
The transformation of the electricity industry is newer, and reflects in part a radical change in thinking.
Innovation is often a way of not discussing transformation, a way of keeping enterprise and economic transformation somehow in the hands of groups who are excluded from the levers of change.
On one hand, sustainability creates huge opportunities by catalysing innovation and on the other, it calls for transformation in which global challenges of growth, urbanization, scarcity of natural resources and environmental change will become key strategic business drivers.
The move to a low-carbon economy requires a transformation in consumer behavior, but we should not assume that consumers are willing or able to change their habits.
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