70% of all change initiatives fail. But the odds turn in your company's favor once you understand that change is a multi-stage process--not an event--and that persuasion is key to establishing a sense of urgency, winning support, and silencing naysayers. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles on change management and selected the most important ones to help you lead your organization through transformation. -- Provided by publisher.

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Leading change: why transformation efforts fail / by John P. Kotter -- Change through persuasion / by David A Garvin and Michael A. Roberto -- Leading change when business is good : an interview with Samuel J. Palmisano / by Paul Hemp and Thomas A. Stewart (editors) -- Radical change, the quiet way / by Debra E. Meyerson -- Tipping point leadership / by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne -- A survival guide for leaders / by Ronald A. Heifetz and Marty Linsky -- The real reason people won't change / by Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey -- Cracking the code of change / by Michael Beer and Nitin Nohria -- The hard side of change management / by Harold L. Sirkin, Perry Keenan, and Alan Jackson -- Why change programs don't produce change / by Michael; Beer, Russell A. Eisenstat, and Bert Spector.