Dead Elephants are Everywhere

Can you imagine what a dead elephant would look like if it were in your workplace. It would be large - very large. It would take up a lot of room. It would get smelly if not attended to quickly - very smelly. How would you move it? Who would do it? Perhaps workers would attempt to ignore it because they don't have the solution to getting it out of the way. "What elephant? I don't see any elephant. If you see one, you figure out what to do with it." But the more everyone tries to ignore it the worse the problem gets. The longer it lies there the harder and harder it will be to get rid of.

Organizations frequently have one or more dead elephants lying around right in the middle of things. Dead elephants are anything that happens that causes discontent or discord and are not dealt with. The problems can start small and seem to go away, but more and more things happen, building upon the underlying problem. Workers don't know what to do so they try to remain productive, but invariably end up "walking around" the elephant, pretending not to see it. Productivity slips, employees leave, and no one seems to know why. Dead elephants are everywhere. Imagine what things would be like if they were gone...........

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