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The Key to Change Is Middle Management

Harvard Business Review

A hallmark of the successful 32% was the involvement of mid-level managers two or more levels below the CEO. Many change efforts fail because people reduce themselves to checking boxes in safe, defensible systems such as Lean and Six Sigma. Many change leaders use Six Sigma , Kaizen , and Lean for continuous improvement.