A tree full of monkeys

[Penfold]

Someone told me this today.....

An organisation is like a tree full of monkeys, all on different branches at different levels - with some climbing up.
The monkeys on top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces.
The monkeys on the bottom look up and see nothing but a***holes.

how true.

[Benny]

Can we make this monkey business lesson thread?

Imagine a cage containing five monkeys. Inside the cage there is a banana on a string. Before long a monkey walks over and reaches for the banana. As soon as he touches the banana, all the monkeys are sprayed with cold water. After a while another monkey makes an attempt to grab the banana ââ,¬â€ with the same result. All the monkeys are instantly sprayed with cold water. Pretty soon, when another monkey tries to reach for the banana, the other monkeys will try to stop him.

Now forget the cold water. Remove one monkey from the cage and replace it with a new one. The new monkey sees the banana and obviously goes over and starts to grab it. But to his surprise, all of the other monkeys attack him to prevent him from touching the banana.

Next, remove another of the original monkeys and replace it with a new one. Now all of the monkeys currently in the cage stop the new one from getting to the banana. Replace the third, fourth and fifth monkeys with new ones. Each one becomes a willing opponent to allowing anyone to touch that banana.

Now, none of the monkeys in the cage at this point were every sprayed with cold water. But they continue to prevent each other from grabbing that banana ââ,¬â€ the one food that they should all naturally love. None of these monkeys ever approaches the banana again. They have no idea why itââ,¬â,,¢s off limits ââ,¬â€ But thatââ,¬â,,¢s just the way things have always been done around here.

[Luminance]

Can we make this monkey business lesson thread?



But thatââ,¬â,,¢s just the way things have always been done around here.

Excellent post, hope I can store it in my memory :g:

[delanvital]

Nice one Benninio.

[spiritus]

lol nice one indeed, saved my day
and reminded me of this one:
http://www.fortunewatch.com/career-path-wow-how-true/
the bird verion.

[Luminance]

a bit of topic, but since we are talking about career paths:
http://majorleaguejerk.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/career-path-flowchart-1498-1247685318-22.jpg

[spiritus]

lol lumi, either should i be a salesman or a gym teacher.
i'm a salesman :blink: i posess no skills at all :doh: