How company policy begins!
Start with a cage containing five chimpanzees. In the cage, hang a banana on a
string and put stairs under it. Before long, an ape will go to the stairs
and start to climb towards the banana. As soon as he touches the stairs,
spray all of the chimpanzees with freezing cold water.
After a while, another chimpanzee makes an attempt with the same result - all the
chimpanzees are sprayed with freezing cold water. This continues through several
more attempts. Pretty soon, when another chimpanzee tries to climb the stairs, the
other chimpanzees all move to prevent it.
Now, turn off the cold water. Remove one chimpanzee from the cage and replace it
with a new one. The new chimpanzee sees the banana and wants to climb the stairs.
To his horror all the other chimpanzees attack him. After another attempt, and
another attack he knows that if be tries to climb the stairs, he will be
assaulted.
Next, remove another of the original five chimpanzees 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. Again, replace a third
original chimpanzee with a new one. The new one makes it for the stairs and is
attacked as well. Two of the four chimpanzees that beat him have no idea why they
were not permitted to climb the stairs nor why they are participating in
the beating of the newest ape.
After replacing the fourth and fifth original chimpanzees, all the chimpanzee which have
been sprayed with cold water, have been replaced. Nevertheless, no chimpanzee ever
again approaches the stairs: Why not? Because that's the way they've always
done it and that's the way it's always been around here.
And that's how company policy begins
Author Unknown
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