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It’s Time to Abolish the 70% Change Failure Rate Statistic

Change Starts Here

” This is the closest thing to real research Hughes found, but does that mean that everything short of complete success is a failure? Isn’t that closer to a failure rate, in the truest sense of the term? The remaining 59% missed at least one objective or failed completely. It’s hard to argue with the experts!

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The False Promise of Free Capital Flows

Harvard Business Review

The models concluded — in a sort of "divine coincidence," as the MIT economist Olivier Blanchard and a colleague quipped — that if central banks merely maintained steady, low inflation, they would achieve economic stability and the best growth possible. Nobody wants to limit long-term investment in plant and equipment.)