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 Seeing as the minds whose hypotheses get tested tend to belong to those at or near the summit of their organisations, we see at once the [[paradox]]ical nature of ''mandated organisational change'': the mandate for change must come from those who have lived their best lives within, because of, and thanks to, the status quo: those who have flourished in the present state of affairs, ''without'' it being changed.
-Those, that is to say, ''who have most to lose'' ''from change''. We propose, therefore, a rhetorical question: why would ''they'' want to change anything?
+Those, that is to say, ''who have most to lose'' ''from change''. We pose, therefore, a rhetorical question: why would ''they'' want to change anything?
 The argument runs like this: a “will to change” derives from a conviction that one’s current configuration is, somehow, ''wrong'': that the organisation is sub-optimal, dysfunctional, elliptical or just ''broken''.