"The Change Monster" Finds Home in Corporate America

The July results are in, and 'The Change Monster ' has found a place as the month's second best-selling business book for corporate America as compiled by 800-CEO-READ. The Change Monster: The Human Forces that Fuel or Foil Corporate Transformation & Change,' by Jeanie Daniel Duck, is the first book to point out one of the biggest managerial problems prevalent in companies today: management's reluctance and lack of sophistication in dealing with the human emotions that major changes elicit, and their failure to recognize and bring to bear authority and humanity. Nothing they've learned in business school will have taught them do that. Written in an informal, storyteller style, Duck is fond of quoting her mother's homespun wisdom and sharing anecdotes from her personal experiences. This fresh approach comes at least in part from Duck's nontraditional background for a top management consulting firm. Trained as a sculptor, she was a supervisor of student teaching in the New York City public school system and the head of training for a savings and loan. No stranger to change, she became a consultant when the S&L was disbanded during the financial crisis of the early 1980s.