Building a House for Diversity: How a Fable About a Giraffe and an Elephant Offers New Strategies for Today's Workforce

"What could an elephant and a giraffe teach people about working together? Some very important lessons, it seems, about the complex—and critically important—issues of dealing with diversity in the workforce. Building a House for Diversity begins with a short fable about how a friendship between the two animals is threatened when the house built for a tall, skinny giraffe cannot accommodate his invited guest, a broad, bulky elephant. Using this story as a vivid metaphor for the difficult iss...