Breaking Free: A Prescription for Personal and Organizational Change

Explore the spiritual side of business

The best-selling author of Healing the Wounds writes anotherprescription for our transition-induced ailments. Here he addressesthe self-defeating ways people and organizations react to rapid, seemingly relentless change, and advocates a steady diet oflearning as the surest way to break free. Associating variousresponses to change with four character types -- The Overwhelmed, The Entrenched, The BSers, and The Learners -- the author holds upThe Learners as the attainable ideal...and shows how to help thosein the other categories pursue the learning path. The ultimategoal: to facilitate transition to a more flexible, self-directedworkplace.