Teaching the Elephant to Dance: Empowering Change in Your OrganizationTrainers shackle young elephants to deeply embedded stakes to make them stay in one place. Older elephants never try to leave even though they have the strenght to pull the stakes and move beyond. Using this analogy, the author shows how many organizations are stuck fast in obsolete working methods and practices which completely disqualify them from success, or even survival, in today's hectic, ever-changing business environment. |
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Teaching the Elephant to Dance | 1 |
Getting Ready to Change | 17 |
Anticipate the Obstacles | 31 |
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