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Stop Using the Excuse “Organizational Change Is Hard”

Harvard Business Review

Most experts, for example, state that 70% of change efforts fail, but a 2011 study in the Journal of Change Management , led by the University of Brighton researcher Mark Hughes found that there is no empirical evidence to support this statistic. The insidious myth that change initiatives usually fail is disturbingly widespread.

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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. With such measurements, one can make reasonable predictions (pre-merger) about how companies and teams will collaborate, where it will be easy, and where there will be conflict. Confidence suffers.

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