Shaving Yaks

Leanne Gordon
3 min readNov 20, 2023
Photo by Lieve Ransijn on Unsplash

Who knew that yaks needed shaving so often. Every time I think I’m done, I find myself right back there again, poised with clippers in hand next to a hairy yak.

Whilst moving to Tibet and becoming a yak farmer does have its appeal sometimes, this yak shaving is of the figurative kind.

According to Urban Dictionary, yak shaving is any seemingly pointless activity which is actually necessary to solve a problem which

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Leanne Gordon

Thinker ▪️ Writer ▪️ Speaker 🇦🇺 Founder - changingfutures.com.au Recent altMBA alumnus #makingworkplaceshuman #changeseekers #futureofwork