Solution becoming a Problem!
Every day, a small 🐜 Ant arrives at work very early and starts work immediately.
🐜 She produces a lot and she was happy.
The Chief, 🐯 a Tiger, was surprised to see that 🐜 the Ant was working without supervision.
🐯 He thought if the 🐜 Ant can produce so much without supervision, wouldn’t she produce even more if she had a supervisor!
So 🐯 he recruited a 🐝 Bee who had extensive experience as 👷supervisor and who was famous for 📝 writing excellent reports.
The 🐝 Bee’s first decision was to set up a 🔔 clocking in attendance system.
🐝 He also needed a secretary to help him write and type his reports and he recruited a 🐇Rabbit , who managed the archives and monitored ☎ all phone calls.
🐯 The Tiger was delighted with the 🐝 Bee’s reports and asked him to produce 📊 graphs to describe production rates and to analyse 📉 trends, so that he could use them for 📁 presentations at Board‘s meetings.
So the 🐝 Bee had to buy a 💻 new computer and a Laser printer and recruited a 🐈 Cat to manage the 🌐 IT department.
The🐜 Ant, who had once been so productive and relaxed, hated this new plethora of paperwork and meetings which used up most of her time…!
🐯 The Tiger came to the conclusion that it was high time to nominate a person in charge of the department where the 🐜 Ant worked.
The position was given to the 🐒 Monkey, whose first decision was to buy an Air Conditioner and an ergonomic 💺 chair for his office.
The new person in charge, 🐒 the Monkey, also needed a 💻 computer and a personal assistant , who he brought from his previous department, to help him prepare a 📑 Work and 📃 ‘Budget Control Strategic Optimisation Plan’ …
The Department where the 🐜 Ant works is now a sad place, where nobody laughs anymore and everybody has become upset…
It was at that time that the 🐝 Bee convinced the boss, 🐯 the Tiger; of the absolute necessity to start a climatic study of the environment .
Having reviewed the charges for running the 🐜 Ant’s department , the 🐯Tiger found out that the Production was much less than before.
So he recruited the 🐤 Owl, a prestigious and renowned consultant to carry out an audit and suggest solutions.
🐤 The Owl spent three months in the department and came up with an enormous report, in several volumes, that concluded…
“ The Department is overstaffed …”
Guess who the 🐯 Tiger fires first?
Of course, 🐜 the Ant………,
“….because she showed lack of motivation and had a negative attitude. ”
Learning from the story –
- Create a second line of Management from suitable internal human resources.
- Hiring top level management from outside will not always create desired results, in most cases outsiders tend to disrupt the hard earned culture. Hire them from outside if at all you need to transform the existing culture.
- Have the systems in place to identify & reward the actual performers. Systems in our business should be optimized for effectiveness. Systems should not increase the burden and costs of doing business.
- Try to keep your organizational structure as flat as possible.
Questions to Ask ourselves –
- What all people in my organization can be groomed for elevating them to Second level of Management?
- Are we happy with existing culture in the organization? Is there any need to transform the culture? Do we need to hire an outsider in top level?
- How can we build systems to Identify and rewards performers?
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