Company experiment
THIS
HAS BEEN PROVEN BY EXPERIMENTS !!!!!!!!
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, spray
all of the other monkeys with cold water.
After
a while, another monkey makes an attempt with the same result all the other
monkeys are sprayed with cold water. Pretty
soon, when another monkey tries to climb the stairs, the other monkeys
will try to prevent it.
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 a company policy begins.