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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. Isn’t that closer to a failure rate, in the truest sense of the term? It’s mentioned in passing as a fact in most change management books and articles nowadays. by Jen Frahm.

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The Soft Things that Make Mergers Hard

Harvard Business Review

With a bit more attention, this general term can be separated into concrete human traits, applicable to a company, teams, and individuals. As Jim Champy says of major organization change, "One of the things I always look for is the appetite for change. Match merger strategy to the speed profile of the teams at hand.

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