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Organizing for successful change management: A McKinsey Global Survey

• A McKinsey Quarterly online survey sheds new light on what drives a successful transformation in organizational performance.
• Transformations appear to produce the best results when executives mobilize organizational energy and communicate their objectives in a clear, comprehensive, and engaging way.
• Certain change mechanisms also were correlated with executives' satisfaction with transformation.
• The survey, which covered a range of contexts from turnarounds to restructuring, highlights the mixed emotions felt by those on the receiving end of deep-rooted change.