The Blind Men and the Elephant

The Blind Men and the ElephantBy: David A. Schmaltz If you work, you probably manage projects every day even if "project manager" isn't in your official title and you know how frustrating the experience can be. Using the familiar story of six blind men failing to describe an elephant to each other as a metaphor, David Schmaltz brilliantly identifies the true root cause of the difficulties in project work: "incoherence" (the inability of a group of people to make common meaning

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