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

Change Starts Here

Interestingly, many people quote the 70% failure rate in John Kotter’s seminal HBR article, “Leading Change” from 1995, but the statistic just isn’t there. Google “70% change failure rate,” and you’ll see 1.96 million results. ” How do they know? Is the 70% Failure Rate a Myth? by Jason Little.

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