Work Politics .... Corporate Culture

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1. Put five apes in a room.

2. Hang a banana from the ceiling and place a ladder underneath the banana to enable them to reach it.

3. Have it set up so any time an ape starts to climb the ladder, the room is sprayed with ice cold water.

4. The apes will soon learn not to climb the ladder.

5. Now take one ape out and replace him with another one – Ape #6 –

6. Now, disable the sprayer.

7. The new ape will start to climb the ladder and will be attacked unmercifully by the other four apes who do not want to get sprayed by that cold water. The new ape has no idea what is happening.

8. Replace another of the original apes with a new one and the same thing will happen, with Ape #6 doing the most hitting.

9. Continue this pattern until all the original apes have been replaced.

10. You wind up with 5 apes who have never been sprayed with water but know damn well to stay away from that banana.