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

Change Starts Here

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. The 2008 “ Making Change Work ” study by IBM shares a survey of more than 1500 change practitioners, in which they found that 41% of projects met their objectives.

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Stop Using the Excuse “Organizational Change Is Hard”

Harvard Business Review

When a change project falls a day behind schedule, if leaders and employees believe that successful change is an unlikely outcome, they will regard this momentary setback as the dead canary in the coalmine of their change initiative. In organizational change initiatives, our negative biases can create a toxic self-fulfilling prophecy.

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