RIP: The Change Curve

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Thirty years ago, we left behind most of the things that seemed like a good idea in the eighties – but probably weren’t: the avocado bathroom suite, Kajagoogoo and the Ford Sierra. But somehow ‘The Change Curve’ clung on. Today I’ll try to kill it off.

It has always baffled me why business schools went to a bereavement academic’s 1960’s writings to find a model to support leaders in delivering the evolution of their business. But that’s where they went. And boy, did it stick!