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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

But the problem with this attitude, which permeates all levels of our organizations, is that it equates “hard” with “failure,” and, by doing so, it hobbles our change initiatives, which have higher success rates than we lead ourselves to believe. ” On the surface, this is true: change requires effort.

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Radically Rethinking Health Care Delivery

Harvard Business Review

And this complexity happens within a single health care delivery organization. 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.