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This 4 page paper reports on the book “Teaching the Elephant to Dance” by James A. Belasco. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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when change is needed) they will fail. This paper is a brief discussion of Belascos book. Discussion First, the "nuts and bolts": The book is Teaching the Elephant to Dance
by James A. Belasco. The book was first published by Crown Publishers in New York in 1990; subsequent reprints were by Plume, also in New York. This paper uses the
version printed in 1991. The ISBN number is 0-452-26629-7 (thats the Crown hardback); the Library of Congress Control Number is 89025122. Brief summary: The books main idea is that organizations
have to change to survive. Belasco wrote the book because this is his field-hes a professor of management at San Diego State University; a speaker and best-selling author and he
was the founder and CEO of a "global software and service firm" that he guided to a "100 percent compounded average, annual ten-year growth rate, and 30 percent net-after-tax margins"
(James A. Belasco, 2004). He has launched several start-ups and high tech companies and he brings his knowledge of what makes businesses successful to his writing. The main idea of
the book is that change is necessary if companies are to remain viable, and that executives often fail to recognize that what worked in the past is actually keeping them
from succeeding in the present. That is, because methods worked for them before, they keep doing the same things, even though it may not longer be effective, or someone else
may be doing something even better. The most notable passage is also one of the simplest, but its startling: "Success ties you to the past" (Belasco, 1991, p. 2). When
a company is successful and has developed a certain way of doing things, getting it to change can be like-well-teaching an elephant to dance. The title comes from Belascos
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