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Designating Roles, Responsibilities, and Authority

When you’re working on a major change initiative, it can feel really daunting to involve all the right people in all the right ways. You want to give everyone who’s affected by the change an opportunity to provide input. And your stakeholders may be eager—really eager—to have their say. But how do you make sure that in your effort to be inclusive, you don’t end up with a free-for-all? Now that you’ve conducted your stakeholder analysis and have identified everyone who will be affected by the change, how do you make sure you don’t get stuck in “analysis paralysis,” where you keep receiving input and never make a decision about how to proceed? How can you make it clear who—among all the stakeholders ...

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