Change Basics

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Assessing Organizational Readiness for Change

What's Inside This Chapter

   In this chapter you'll learn:

• The value of reviewing an organization's past change efforts before implementing new ones
• The most common reasons why organizational change initiatives fail
• The role and importance of organizational culture in every change effort
• How to assess organizational readiness for change.

The Dismal Statistics on the Failures of Change Management

As should be clear by now, every organization, no matter how successful—and perhaps because they are successful—must embrace change as a central ingredient in its long-term success. Change must become ...