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

Change Starts Here

He also found in the same set of research that only 10% of executives said their change programs were completely/mostly unsuccessful. And notice the number is based on the opinion of executives, and not an actual study tracking projects over time to see if they actually achieved their goals. million results. by Jason Little.

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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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