Martin C. Tangora wrote:
> Not sure how the thread got here from there, but K wrote:
>   
>> We need an analogy for a small monster that grows up to be a big headache of a monster and to apply it to Project Management. If it is a small monster then we need to be able to identify it then stomp all over it to make sure it does not get a chance to grow up.
>>     
>
> The literary metaphor for this is the baobab tree. See The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. It tells of a tiny planet (easily walked around in minutes) where the occupant needed to weed out some baby baobab trees
Martin,

Excellent! From your suggestion I can see that kudzu would work too. It 
had not occurred to me to think outside of the animal kingdom. I will 
take it up with the peanut gallery.

It has been a long time since I have read The Little Prince. This is the 
2nd reminder in a week.

It began with my reading in a project management book The Godzilla 
Principle then my son, who when younger was obsessed w/ Godzilla spent 
almost an hour to explain to me not only why it was inaccurate for a 
small monster to grow into a large monster (Godzilla was always large) 
and from there into the complexities of the metaphor. Now I can see that 
when I present the BaoBab Tree Principle I will be able to delight in 
explaining the context.

Thnx,
Ken

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