Eat your elephant one piece at a time

"THE parable of the Blind Men and the Elephant appears in Buddhist, Jain, Hindu and Sufi teachings....There are many versions, but in each one a number of blind men are placed around an elephant and invited to describe it. The man who stands at its ears says it is like a fan; the man who stands at its tusks says an elephant is like a spear; the man who stands at its tail says it is like a rope – and so on. In most versions of the tale, the men come to blows on the matter before they are able to understand the truth. They are all equally correct – but all completely wrong in any meaningful sense. The story pertains to so many aspects of our lives that it’s not surprising it has been retold for so many centuries. ...If you ask different people what [NHS] governance is, you get a multitude of different answers. To some, it is about financial planning – to some, it is about clinical standards – to others, it is about patient safety."

- Nicola King

This took up about an hour of my day and is preparation for a top team walkabout and discovery of who does what on Friday. But it has already paid dividends as it has provoked quite a bit of discussion amongst my colleagues one of whom remarked that "it all made sense now".

I had to Google "how do you draw an elephant?"

Anyway this sort of thing is pretty much what I do for a living. That and eat a lot of chocolate....

Otherwise a bog standard day in the office.

Girl Racer had the first of her finals today, near the end of her University career. It went well. Fingers crossed ...