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Inside Change: How to use emotional intelligence to facilitate change inside organizations

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What do you think of when you hear CHANGE? Excitement? Anxiety? Frustration? Exhaustion? Almost certainly you have some feelings about this loaded topic and even people who thrive on change acknowledge that it’s incredibly challenging. And it’s accelerating.

Excerpt from Inside Change, Freedman & Ghini, 2010, Six Seconds Publishing. 771 In 1996, John Kotter published his best seller Leading Change and stated that 70% of change efforts fail. Now over a decade later, despite hundreds of “change breakthroughs” shared in books and conference talks, the percentage of failure remains about the same. In a 2008 McKinsey survey of thousands, people reported that 2/3 of change efforts failed. In IBM’s 2009 “Making change work” study of more than 1500 change leaders worldwide, IBM found that 60% of change efforts failed.

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Ghini, M., Freedman, J. (2018). Inside Change: How to use emotional intelligence to facilitate change inside organizations. In: Gölzner, H., Meyer, P. (eds) Emotionale Intelligenz in Organisationen . Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-19127-6_11

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