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

Change Starts Here

You don’t have to be in or near the field of change management long before you hear a daunting statistic: 70% of change initiatives fail. It’s mentioned in passing as a fact in most change management books and articles nowadays. A few of these corporate change efforts have been very successful.

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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. Our biases toward failure is wired into our brains.

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