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Leaders who expect organisational change to be hard, and understand the three main barriers, are better placed to manage it successfully, a transformation expert says.

"To design a successful transformation program and tailor it to the circumstances of your organisation and your professional context, you should not only acknowledge that transformation is hard, you should also understand why it's hard," says Adam Bennett, the principal of Great Change Consulting, in his new book Great Change: The best way to get strategy done.

Only by understanding the barriers can a leader design strategies and actions to overcome them, Bennett says...