It’s Time to Abolish the 70% Change Failure Rate Statistic
Change Starts Here
JUNE 3, 2014
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. Interestingly, many people quote the 70% failure rate in John Kotter’s seminal HBR article, “Leading Change” from 1995, but the statistic just isn’t there.
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