Elephants in the room

Greetings:

Being a leader means you have to do more than address the elephant(s) in the room. Sometimes you might have to lasso them with more stick than carrot. Other times you might only need to acknowledge their presence which could give you enough room to negotiate how they can come into the conversation.

Ah - how about that? Invite to them conversation!

Sometimes, you may have to find the elephant's owner. Come on, it is a bit naive to think so many elephants are just wondering around wild, unattached, and angry for no good contextualized reasons.

Perhaps it is not the elephant in the room that makes everyone uncomfortable, but their silent owners who are pushing us into discomfort land.

Revision: Being a leader means you can spot the elephant owners in the room AND bring them and their elephants into the conversation.

BRIGHT SPOT: Elephants don't really like too much conversation and once recognized many of them may leave forcing their owners into accountability.