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Of course, this works both ways: however well thought-out your plan is — unlikely, but let’s allow for the moment that it ''is'' “well thought-out” — you can be sure the workforce will ignore your change program, just as you ignored their feedback on it. They will just carry on with what they have always done, how they have always done it, until they are “[[Reduction in force|riffed]]”.

Those remaining ''after'' the [[Reduction in force|RIF]] will adjust their habits so that they can carry on, as nearly as possible, with that they were doing before.

Meantime, high in the Gods, an [[opco|Opco]] will present a weekly [[dashboard]] to a steerco, the [[RAG]]s will all be green lights, the [[steerco|Steerco]] will be happy, the project will be completed, everyone will move on to the next change project — and, magically, nothing will have changed. Those who were doing what they were doing before the consultation can continue doing it, however pointless or counterproductive it was, as if nothing has happened, because nothing ''has'' happened. The management consulting satellite has bounced off the outer atmosphere — not before collecting its fee — and carried on into deep space of new opportunity.