sacred cow slayer

I spent my day today slaying sacred cows. What is a sacred cow? TheFreeDictionary.com defines it as: a belief or system that is treated with much respect and is not usually criticized. As I have written about before the company I work for is made up of three companies that are having a little trouble letting go of the “old way” of doing things. As I told someone today we are suffering from “takeover-itis”. It is where people from an old company can’t let go and grasp the new way of doing things. Each person deep in their hearts believes that what they did for the old company is the only right way of doing things.

Now I am not immune to sacred cows. They just don’t seem to be in the area of work probably because I have worked for three different companies in the last four years. Now granted I was laid of from the first and I had been there for 11 years and I have only been at the current one for 2 months. For me my sacred cows come in other areas, like pizza; No Foo Foo Pizza.

We don’t recognize the sacred cows in our lives until we are confronted with them. It is never easy to slay a sacred cow and it is always messy, but usually there are many benefits; who doesn’t enjoy a good steak?