E59: Show Me the Money
Part one of two on an adventure to discovering the source of the claim that 70% of change management efforts fail.
How many of you have heard this statistic? I’ve heard it probably a million times, and I’m sure you have too! In fact, It makes me feel pretty competent because none of my change projects fail, so obviously I must be a genius!
In all seriousness, when I talk about this with other change professionals, none of us can figure out how this could possibly be true.
But, here’s the thing. I can’t find the source!
In this episode I talk about phase 1 of my search, and how far I got. And, we finish off with my beef with McKinsey, and about how you can’t quote your own market research data as “academic research”.
Here’s my hypothesis. I think its all made up.
Listen in to find out how far I got in the research and where it led me, and what you can learn from this along the way.
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