David L Grieve

Eat The Elephant David L Grieve

The book describes the challenges of managing and owning a business.

How often are you as managers or business owners confronted with tasks or challenges that seem insurmountable?

Being a business owner and manager can often be a lonely experience, with seemingly impossible and unsolvable tasks and overwhelming problems, ranging from people and customers to economic circumstances.

Written by a successful business owner and advisor based on his experiences of establishing, owning, managing and successfully selling a business, working as a trusted advisor to business owners and examples from history. It uses the African proverb 'how do you eat an elephant?' - 'one bite at a time'. The book divided is into sections based on the author's Five Ps or dimensions of business success; People, Planning, Processes, Productivity leading to more Profits.

The book has many anecdotes that can be used in everyday in business providing food for thought and consideration when confronting everyday problems, challenges and opportunities.