Read the following change management articles: Managing Change: Winning Hearts and Minds When Good Plans Don't Work Out Answer the following  questions 1. According to the author, what percent of organizational transformations fail? Why is this?  2. Explain the "hard" side and "soft" side of change management. Provide an example of the hard and soft using a real or imaginary change. 3. Discuss the four psychological stages that employees experience in dealing with change in organizations.

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Read the following change management articles:
  1. Managing Change: Winning Hearts and Minds
  2. When Good Plans Don't Work Out
Answer the following  questions
1. According to the author, what percent of organizational transformations fail? Why
is this? 
2. Explain the "hard" side and "soft" side of change management. Provide an
example of the hard and soft using a real or imaginary change.
3. Discuss the four psychological stages that employees experience in dealing with
change in organizations. 
4. Using the four stages in the previous question, explain for each stage how
effective managers of change should communicate.
5. Think back on a large change that affected you in your life. Describe it and share
what 
6. you did to manage the change. What might you have done differently? 
 
 
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4. Using the four stages in the previous question, explain for each stage how
effective managers of change should communicate.
5. Think back on a large change that affected you in your life. Describe it and share
what 
 6. you did to manage the change. What might you have done differently? 

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