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Your Change Initiative Failed Because You Trained for a Marathon and Made Everyone Else Sprint

Your Change Initiative Failed Because You Trained for a Marathon and Made Everyone Else SprintJohn Immel Published on: 05/08/2026

Your team started talking about "the change" almost two years ago. Two years to argue, to doubt, to change your mind, to change it back. Then, like a starter at a race, you gave the organization an email blast. "…and GO!"

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Organizational Change Management Is a Grief Problem

Organizational Change Management Is a Grief ProblemJohn Immel Published on: 05/08/2026

The pattern is old. The most catastrophic change initiative in recorded history — the Children of Israel, forty years in the wilderness, a generation dying before the Promised Land — was a grief failure at scale.

Organizational Change Management Is a Grief Problem

Organizational Change Management Is a Grief Problemby: John ImmelPublished on: 05/08/2026

The pattern is old. The most catastrophic change initiative in recorded history — the Children of Israel, forty years in the wilderness, a generation dying before the Promised Land — was a grief failure at scale.

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Organizational Change Management Is a Grief Problem

Your Change Initiative Failed Because You Trained for a Marathon and Made Everyone Else Sprint

Your Change Initiative Failed Because You Trained for a Marathon and Made Everyone Else Sprintby: John ImmelPublished on: 05/08/2026

Your team started talking about "the change" almost two years ago. Two years to argue, to doubt, to change your mind, to change it back. Then, like a starter at a race, you gave the organization an email blast. "…and GO!"

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Your Change Initiative Failed Because You Trained for a Marathon and Made Everyone Else Sprint