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Volume 18, Issue 6
1 July 2002
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Viewpoint| July 01 2002

Resistance to change: enemy or ally?

Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-8588
Print ISSN: 0258-0543
© MCB UP Limited
2002
Strategic Direction (2002) 18 (6): 21–23.
https://doi.org/10.1108/02580540210793653

The recent spate of acquisitions, redundancies and CEO casualties ensure that change is an inevitability for many organizations. However, nearly two‐thirds of major change programs prove unsuccessful, and, according to Fortune 500 executives, the primary reason for this is not a lack of skill or resources, but resistance …

Keywords: Resistance, Theory of constraints, Leadership
© MCB UP Limited
2002
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