Why do Change Efforts Fail?

Why do Change Efforts Fail? One of the things that assists leaders to effectively implement Organizational Development interventions is to also understand past successes and failures. For this assignment, use the Charter Oak Library to conduct an Internet search for 2-3 peer reviewed articles related to “Why do change efforts fail?” Be creative in your key word search and you will be successful in finding the articles. Once you have located the articles, prepare a 3 to 4-page paper (excluding cover and reference pages) on the following: Analyze and synthesize the various author’s reasons for failed change efforts. o Identify any similarities in the topics, data, trends, etc. Based on the articles top reasons on why change efforts fail create a list of “best practices” that leaders SHOULD follow to be successful Choose a change effort/intervention from Midstate Medical Center in Meriden, CT, that either succeeded or did not succeed and explain how well leadership did with respect to EACH of the best practices you have identified Please be explicit and provide solid recommendations on what could have been done better. Please remember to use citations and references.