 How to effectively manage change in a business? This is a real simple question with a real hard answer. Change management is never easy. One of the main reasons is because human beings, in general, do not like change and they tend to resist it at every turn, even if it's in their best interest or it's something they've even asked for in the past. So if you're trying to implement a change in your business, ring about a new initiative, change the culture in your business, this is especially important and prevalent when you're talking about mergers and acquisitions of big companies. Think back over the last 20 years, there's a couple of mergers and acquisitions that went really well. There's a lot more that didn't go well and there's a lot written about those. I won't go into the details or name any names, but mergers and acquisitions can be really tough because that's a really big change management problem.