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

Change Starts Here

Other bloggers who have also explored the myth of the 70% failure rate make some great points as well: Time to Kill the Phantom 70% Failure Rate Quoted on Transformational Strategy by Gail Severini. 70% of Change Projects Fail: Bollocks! by Jen Frahm.

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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. Match merger strategy to the speed profile of the teams at hand. Create internal merger communication strategies that match the speed profile of the teams at hand. Is there an appreciation for the need for change?

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Should You Gamble on Your Company's Leadership?

Harvard Business Review

This motto is vastly more ambitious than the previous one — to educate leaders who "make a decent profit — decently" — and ambition, as Nitin Nohria (now HBS's Dean) and James Champy wrote in The Arc of Ambition , is usually a valuable quality. Another key strategy is to match the person to the situation.

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