It didn't take long while on safari in Botswana, to begin to recognize the animal calls heralding a predator roaming in the area. What intrigued me was the pass-along path those calls took, from animal group to animal group. The shrieks of baboons, the trumpeting of elephants, the screams of francolins, the cries of impalas were picked up by adjacent animals and sent out for as long as the threat remained. In that predator-prey world, where survival depends on heeding and passing on warning calls, this was nature's equivalent of a "heads up." It got me thinking. Why isn't there as effective a process in the workplace?
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