Change Without Pain offers an immensely sane, measured, and well-documented rebuttal to the long list of faddish managerial nostrums so popular in recent years -- and, more importantly, to the very basis of such faddishness in the first place. Abrahamson sees that the fitful, jagged shift of infatuation from one technique to the next -- a migration so full of both sour disillusion and uncritical hope -- is itself the heart the of the problem. When managers believe or are led to believe that nothing old will serve, something new must be invented. But as Abrahamson calmly reminds us, more often than not, we can build what we need for the future out of the various bits and pieces we have accumulated in the past. And we can do so with greater success and with far less pain, dislocation, and waste.
Alan
Kantrow
Chief
Knowledge Officer
The
Monitor Group