Do 70% of change projects really fail?

There is a much repeated statement in business at the moment that 70% of change management projects fail.

70% fail to change*

Wow!

If after all this time and focus on managing change projects as still 70% failure, what’s going on?

I teach a session for various corporate clients on implementing change, and I’ve seen this statistic quite a bit, and I’m revising an upcoming session and looking for a motivator to get people to pay attention to the session.Read more