Change Can Be Managed — Why 95% of Transformations Miss | Lies of HR #10

"Change is a project — give it a plan, a timeline and a steering committee, and you can manage it from A to B." Except you can't project-plan your way through a storm.

In the tenth and final Lie of the first series, we take it apart: why most meaningful change is a complex system you can only influence, not control; why roughly 95% of corporate AI initiatives fail — and why the failures are organisational, not technical; how "change fatigue" set in after the average employee faced ten enterprise changes in a single year; and why you can't project-manage a person through denial. Then the reframe: change can be led, shaped and navigated — but never managed in the tidy sense the word implies.

The voices are AI; the arguments come from Martin Spiteri Schillig's sixteen years in HR.

Full written breakdown, sources, and the mailing list: https://liesofhr.com/lies/change-can-be-managed

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This is the tenth and final lie of the first series. More is coming — new lies, and conversations with the leaders who've lived on the other side of them. Join the list at liesofhr.com to know when the next chapter lands.

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