Sometimes business self help books can be a little preachy and will turn me off before I even get to the meat of the story. Surviving Your Serengeti is the exception. This “fable of self-discovery” does not seek to bore you with a twenty step plan toward business success. It limits the lessons to seven, in fact. The seven are presented in story format relating the seven skills of enduring, strategizing, enterprising, being graceful, being efficient, taking risks, and communicating to those skills demonstrated by animals in the wild Serengeti of Africa. By using a traveling American businessman as the main character who is learning about the link between nature and skills essential to leading a successful business, the lessons are easy to relate to and offer concrete action steps for recognizing and improving these skills in the workplace.
The support website listed at the back of the book provides an opportunity to take a short quiz to help readers discover their own dominant skill and offers tips for maximizing that skill and pitfalls to watch out for when doing so.
This book was an excellent narrative and I look forward to reading more from Stefan Swanepoel.
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