Metaphor for Naming Elephants in UK

[Esther Ewing]

Hi all:
I would like to specifically address my question to  those OS members in UK
or anywhere else  or to anyone who knows the  answer to my question.

In Canada many of us OS folks have used the metaphor  of the Dead Moose to
signify the sticky tough issue that no one wants to  discuss, that everyone
knows is there and which is blocking creativity and  progress. And that people
discuss anyway privately.

Sue Hammond and her colleague Andrea Mayfield have  published a brilliant
book called The Thin Book of Naming Elephants - Discussing  the Undiscussibles
(_www.thinbookpublishing.com_ (http://www.thinbookpublishing.com) ) and if  you
haven't seen it or read it, you should - it's  brilliant.

Naming Elephants is a metaphor that seems easily  understood and recognized
in the US (and indeed in Canada). However, in some  discussions with clients in
the UK, it has had to be  explained.

Does anyone know what the equivalent metaphor might be  in UK?  This would
help me market my services to my UK clients.

And for fun,  I would be curious to know what the  equivalent metaphor would
be in other parts of Europe or the rest of the  world (translated literally
into English). For example, is it un chat mort  (a dead cat) or something else
in German or Danish or Swedish etc. What do you  say in Australia for example?
Or New Zealand? Or Scotland?

Esther Ewing
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