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There's an Elephant in the Room
Discover the single most powerful tool for growth What would happen if you had an elephant in your team or organization? Its presence is felt by all, yet no one is willing to talk about it. The trouble is if you can't talk about something, you can't change it. If you can't change something, you miss out on new opportunities, creativity, achievements and success. Explore through this engaging story, with its insightful illustrations, what happens to an organization when its people are silenced and elephants are free to roam wherever they want. But then what would happen if you talked about the secrets everyone knows? Discover what happens when 4 misfits in a dying company choose the courage to be honest with each other.
124 pages, Paperback
First published July 1, 2008
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July 20, 2016
engaging story about what happen to an organization when its people are silenced and elephants are free to roam wherever they want.
April 12, 2020
097 🐘
If you can't talk about it, you can't change it.
Reading Kitty 😽 1/5
Goodreads 🌟3.25/5
✏️
1 point only for the on-point elephant sketches, which really get the point of “elephant in the room” across.
My top 3 favorite elephant sketches:
🐘Tic-tac-toe of HR workers interspersed with elephants
🐘Paperwork flowcharts leading from one elephant to another
🐘A field of elephants with office chairs strewn amongst them
✏️
I couldn’t finish the book in one sitting – the idea isn’t novel (the elephant idiom has been around since 1950s’?), and the writing is not fluid. It was difficult to read through the simple narration, and I find myself rereading several sentences because the structure just felt ‘off’. The first thought that popped into my head was the institution where I worked – red tapes of bureaucracy everywhere, incurring ridiculous amounts of unnecessary costs: money and timewise. The elephant forms are everywhere! Filling in one form requesting for attention for Issue A, only to find yourself to filling in more forms and ended up being sent back to review totally irrelevant Issue Z. Oh well, those elephants are not my war to fight. I have my own herds of indiscipline mother elephant with her babies of overthinking, procrastination, short-temperedness to tame!
If you can't talk about it, you can't change it.
Reading Kitty 😽 1/5
Goodreads 🌟3.25/5
✏️
1 point only for the on-point elephant sketches, which really get the point of “elephant in the room” across.
My top 3 favorite elephant sketches:
🐘Tic-tac-toe of HR workers interspersed with elephants
🐘Paperwork flowcharts leading from one elephant to another
🐘A field of elephants with office chairs strewn amongst them
✏️
I couldn’t finish the book in one sitting – the idea isn’t novel (the elephant idiom has been around since 1950s’?), and the writing is not fluid. It was difficult to read through the simple narration, and I find myself rereading several sentences because the structure just felt ‘off’. The first thought that popped into my head was the institution where I worked – red tapes of bureaucracy everywhere, incurring ridiculous amounts of unnecessary costs: money and timewise. The elephant forms are everywhere! Filling in one form requesting for attention for Issue A, only to find yourself to filling in more forms and ended up being sent back to review totally irrelevant Issue Z. Oh well, those elephants are not my war to fight. I have my own herds of indiscipline mother elephant with her babies of overthinking, procrastination, short-temperedness to tame!
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