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Stop Using the Excuse “Organizational Change Is Hard”

Harvard Business Review

Suddenly, employees disengage en masse and then the change engine begins to sputter in both perception and reality. ” From that point on, Hammer and Champy’s “unscientific estimate” took on a life of its own. .” Never mind the fact that three other initiatives are still on time or ahead of schedule.)

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The Soft Things that Make Mergers Hard

Harvard Business Review

As Jim Champy says of major organization change, "One of the things I always look for is the appetite for change. Consider the well-documented conflict between fast-paced sales organizations and the necessarily more structured pace of engineering groups. Is there an appreciation for the need for change?

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