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

Change Starts Here

He also found in the same set of research that only 10% of executives said their change programs were completely/mostly unsuccessful. 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. 70% of Change Projects Fail: Bollocks!

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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. Realize that individual executives will differ in their speed profiles as well, which can easily drive high-level divisions in the way that a merger or initiative is imagined and executed.

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