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

Change Starts Here

In 2011, I wrote a blog post called “ The Most Misleading — and Exploited — Statistic about Change ” at a time when I still believed the statistic to be true, but felt that measuring a failure rate didn’t make a whole lot of sense to me. Google “70% change failure rate,” and you’ll see 1.96

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Stop Using the Excuse “Organizational Change Is Hard”

Harvard Business Review

Most experts, for example, state that 70% of change efforts fail, but a 2011 study in the Journal of Change Management , led by the University of Brighton researcher Mark Hughes found that there is no empirical evidence to support this statistic. The insidious myth that change initiatives usually fail is disturbingly widespread.

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Radically Rethinking Health Care Delivery

Harvard Business Review

Jim Champy is a consultant and author. He is currently a 2011 Advanced Leadership Research Fellow at Harvard. It's time for health care professionals to take on the redesign of their work. No angel of government can or should do it for them. Learn more about the Advanced Leadership Initiative.