Review
The beauty of a one-message book is that the reader comes away from it feeling that he or she has learned its lesson thoroughly. Robert D. Sherer gives us an in-depth education on fear and anxiety in the workplace-what causes it, how it manifests itself in employee and corporate dysfunction, and what to do about it. He uses clear, current examples to persuade business owners that an employee's fear of change, of being fired, or simply of being out of the communication loop can sabotage a company's present operations and future goals. The culmination of the book, "Fourteen Strategies for Reducing Fear," will go a long way toward helping management and employees exorcise the fear that inhibits their best efforts. Throughout the book, Sherer sounds his one-note caution, "But you gotta wanna." He urges business owners and management to change fear-inducing habits, conscious or unconscious, and uses high-profile examples of organizations that failed because they feared to fail. Believe me, once you read how NASA's Challenger mission ignored the warnings of its own engineers, killed seven people and set the space program back by several years, you'll "wanna" eradicate the fear in your own company. -- From Independent Publisher
