{"id":1173,"date":"2017-01-19T06:54:47","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T06:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/?p=1173"},"modified":"2017-01-19T06:54:47","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T06:54:47","slug":"how-company-policy-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/?p=1173","title":{"rendered":"HOW COMPANY POLICY BEGINS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">HOW COMPANY POLICY BEGINS<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Start with a cage containing five monkeys. Inside the cage,\u00a0 hang a<br \/>\nbanana on a string and place a set of stairs under it. Before long, a\u00a0 monkey<br \/>\nwill go to the stairs and start to climb towards the banana. As\u00a0 soon as he<br \/>\ntouches the stairs, spray all of the other monkeys with cold\u00a0 water.<\/p>\n<p>After a while, another monkey makes an attempt with the same\u00a0 result all the<br \/>\nother monkeys are sprayed with cold water. Pretty soon, when\u00a0 another monkey<br \/>\ntries to climb the stairs, the other monkeys will try to prevent\u00a0 it.<\/p>\n<p>Now, put away the cold water. Remove one monkey from the cage and replace<br \/>\nit with a new one. The new monkey sees the banana and wants to climb the<br \/>\nstairs.<\/p>\n<p>To his surprise and horror, all of the other monkeys attack him.\u00a0 After<br \/>\nanother attempt and attack, he knows that if he tries to climb the stairs,<br \/>\nhe will be assaulted.<\/p>\n<p>Next, remove another of the original five monkeys\u00a0 and replace it with<br \/>\na new one. The newcomer goes to the stairs and is attacked.\u00a0 The previous<br \/>\nnewcomer takes part in the punishment with enthusiasm! Likewise, replace<br \/>\na third original monkey with a new one, then a fourth, then the fifth.<br \/>\nEvery time the newest monkey takes to the stairs, he is attacked.<\/p>\n<p>Most of\u00a0 the monkeys that are beating him have no idea why they were not<br \/>\npermitted to climb the stairs or why they are participating in the beating of<br \/>\nthe newest monkey.<\/p>\n<p>After replacing all the original monkeys, none of the remaining monkeys<br \/>\nhave ever been sprayed with cold water. Nevertheless, no monkey ever\u00a0 again<br \/>\napproaches the stairs to try for the banana. Why not? Because as far as\u00a0 they<br \/>\nknow that&#8217;s the way it&#8217;s always been done around here.<\/p>\n<p>And that, my\u00a0 friends, is how a company policy begins.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOW COMPANY POLICY BEGINS \u00a0 Start with a cage containing five monkeys. Inside the cage,\u00a0 hang a banana on a string and place a set of stairs under it. Before long, a\u00a0 monkey will go to the stairs and start to climb towards the banana. As\u00a0 soon as he touches the stairs, spray all of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/?p=1173\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">HOW COMPANY POLICY BEGINS<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1174,"href":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173\/revisions\/1174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mathwise.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}