A fun, easy to read book covering the basics of successful change management. Written in story format, readers follow the stages of a typical project, (riddled with problems) while solutions are revealed through lessons learned from pig farming. Introduces a new set of corporate jargon including the pig snout, the boar, the angry sow plus much more.
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"Finished the book on Saturday and read it again on Sunday. I'll read chapter 10 once a week!" -- Jeff Roider, Engineer
"Required reading for every change management (team) initiative in corporate America." -- Peg Lewin, Consultant
"This book is a LOT of fun and a great intro to corporate change and how to." -- Book Review Judge, Florida Publisher's Association
"Required reading for every change management (team) initiative in corporate America." -- Peg Lewin, Consultant
"This book is a LOT of fun and a great intro to corporate change and how to." -- Book Review Judge, Florida Publisher's Association
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Author Cathy Sumeracki first worked at a large swine farm before spending the last 16 years implementing new programs for large companies. She discovered the lessons she learned on the pig farm were the very things she needed to be successful in change management.
Cathy speaks nationwide using humor and her pig farming experience to point out key principles for effective change management in an everchanging world.
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Never Trust The Boar!,
This review is from: Lessons in Pig Farming, A Swine Farmer's Guide For Surviving in Corporate America (Paperback)
I received my autographed copy of "Lessons in Pig Farming" as a Christmas gift. The volume is slim, but makes many good points about surviving in a competitive corporate climate, mostly through analogies to pig farming. The author, Cathy Sumeracki, has experience working at large commercial swine producers and in other aspects of business. The guide is full of proverbs that apply nearly universally in most businesses, but the analogies to pig farming are sometimes a bit of a stretch (e.g. "There's always a pig snout", "Keep your head out of the pig crate", "Move sows gradually along a clear path", "Heterosity is vital for continued process improvement".)
The points made are all quite valid, but the stretch to applying pig farming wisdom to modern corporate culture is sometimes a bit much, especially in the example of "Heterosity is vital for continued process improvement", which does not roll off the tongue like many aphorisms of this ilk. Nonetheless, this is a good little book full of very general but applicable survival advice for people entering the business world.
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