Sacred Cows Make the Best Burgers : Paradigm-Busting Strategies for Developing Change-Ready People and Organizations

Demonstrates why the latest business panaceas -- re-engineering, virtual teams, outsourcing, reinventing, restructuring, downsizing -- almost always prove unsuccessful. Exposes how these buzzword programs overlook the most fundamental element of all business: people. They offer concrete strategies to help you: discover where sacred cows hide, round them up, & put them out to pasture; prepare an environment in which new ideas can grow & flourish; conquer the 4 types of resistance; motivate people to welcome change -- 5 surefire methods make it easy; cultivate the 7 personal characteristics of Change-Readiness; & perform at peak levels at all times.Kriegel, Robert is the author of 'Sacred Cows Make the Best Burgers : Paradigm-Busting Strategies for Developing Change-Ready People and Organizations', published 2002 under ISBN 9780756755515 and ISBN 0756755514.