Change Starts Here

JUNE 3, 2014

Despite the authors and consultants that tout the failure rate statistic, none of them claim that their methodology has a better success rate. Google “70% change failure rate,” and you’ll see 1.96 million results. The trouble — and the great news — is that there is no solid evidence that it’s true.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

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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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2011

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.

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