"Popular wisdom suggests that about 80 precent of all change initiative end in failure. More alarming still for top managers, a 2005 'BusinessWeek' survey of 1,087 corporate directors found that 31 percent of CEOs fired by their boards were removed because they mismanaged change--more than any other reason given. Why is this happening and why do we need another book purporting to have "the answer"?"--Page 2 of cover.