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It’s Time to Abolish the 70% Change Failure Rate Statistic

Change Starts Here

The 2008 “ Making Change Work ” study by IBM shares a survey of more than 1500 change practitioners, in which they found that 41% of projects met their objectives. ” How do they know? ” Again, this is an estimate (albeit from one of the fathers of change management) and not a research-based statement.

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