I am reading this book right now, and think the metaphor of the rider and elephant is a great picture to how we have to overcome change. It also gives you a great tool to be able to understand better the people that you work with to understand how they will react when affected with change in the workplace.

As a new graduate myself, the advice I would give is to not go into your future thinking that you are entitled to anything. I have learned that success in the workplace is completely different from success in college. I myself thought that I could breeze through everything and succeed at it beyond anyone's expectations, but quickly found that it really does take a lot of hard work and working up and building from the ground up to achieve success and to really have the impact that you desire to have. It takes a lot of patience and humbling. Thanks for the great post!