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| Start with a cage containing five monkeys. Inside the cage, hang a banana on a string and place a set of stairs under it.
Before long, a monkey will go to the stairs and start to climb towards the banana. As soon as he touches the stairs, all of the monkeys are sprayed with cold water.
After a while, another monkey makes an attempt with the same result - all the monkeys are sprayed with cold water.
Pretty soon, none of the monkeys will try to climb the stairs.
Now, put away the cold water. Remove one monkey from the cage and replace it with a new one. The new monkey sees the banana and wants to climb the stairs. To his surprise and horror, all of the other monkeys attack him. After another attempt and attack, he knows that if he tries to climb the stairs, he will be assaulted.
Next, remove another of the original five monkeys and replace it with a new one. The newcomer goes to the stairs and is attacked. The previous newcomer takes part in the punishment with enthusiasm!
Likewise, replace a third original monkey with a new one, then a fourth, then the fifth.
Every time the newest monkey takes to the stairs, he is attacked. Most of the monkeys that are beating him have no idea why they were not permitted to climb the stairs or why they are participating in the beating of the newest monkey.
After replacing all the original monkeys, none of the remaining monkeys have ever been sprayed with cold water. Nevertheless, no monkey ever again approaches the stairs to try for the banana. Why not? Because as far as they know that's the way it's always been done around here.
And that, my friends, is how company policy begins.
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| Jack,
That would have been a great story to initiate a training discussion. If I would have seen it before I retired, I would have had a lot of fun with it.
Take care,
Jim O | |
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Not sure how to implement that one Jack. Spraying my guys with cold water is a bit unusaul! | |
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Location: Westland, Mich. | rick:
just skip the part about spraying them with the water and go right to the beatings. personaly, i always liked the direct aproach heh, heh.
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Location: Southwest shore Bago | Where I work they have had the saying:
"The beatings will continue until moral improves" | |
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Location: Rhinelander | How to break a Company Policy:
1) Go out of business.
2)lose money for more than one year. Everyone then wants to know who 'they' are, as in 'They say this is how it has always been done here'.
3) Hire a new manager from a competitor. He will want to do things as his former employer'always did things', so you get a new set of beatings. | |
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How to start a company policy!