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The Effective Change Manager's Handbook
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The Effective Change Manager's Handbook

by Richard Smith, David King, Ranjit Sidhu, Dan Skelsey, APMG (ARCHIVED)
November 2014
Beginner to intermediate
632 pages
17h 52m
English
Kogan Page
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11

Sustaining change

Helen Campbell

Introduction

Organizations invest time, money and energy in change because they want to do, be or have something different. Not just for a day or a week but as an integrated part of the evolving organization. As we have seen in previous chapters, humans love the status quo and will go to great lengths to get back to it. Despite evidence time and time again telling us that changes are not self-sustaining, we continue to turn a blind eye a week or two after ʻgo-liveʼ – long before the benefits have been sustainably delivered.

This chapter explains some of ...

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