How Company Policy Begins

Read this interesting story in an email & thought of sharing it.
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There is a cage containing 5 monkeys.
Inside the cage, hang a banana on a string & place a set of stairs under it.
Before long, a monkey will go to the stairs & start to climb towards the banana.

As soon as he touches the stairs, spray all of the monkeys with cold water.
After a while, another monkey makes an attempt with the same result - all the monkeys are sprayed with cold water.

Pretty soon, when another monkey tries to climb the stairs, the other monkeys will try to prevent it.

Now, turn off the cold water.

Remove one monkey from the cage & replace it with a new one.
The new monkey sees the banana & wants to climb the stairs.
To his surprise & horror, all of the other monkeys attack him.
After another attempt & attack, he knows that if he tries to climb the stairs, he will be assaulted.

Next, remove another of the original five monkeys & replace it with a new one. The newcomer goes to the stairs & is attacked. The previous newcomer takes part in the punishment with enthusiasm.

Again, replace a third original monkey with a new one. The new one makes it to the stairs & is attacked as well. Two of the four monkeys that beat him have no idea why they were not permitted to climb the stairs, or why they are participating in the beating of the newest monkey.

After replacing the fourth & fifth original monkeys, all the monkeys that have been sprayed with cold water have been replaced. Nevertheless, no monkey ever again approaches the stairs.

Why not? Because as far as they know that's the way it's always been around here. And that's how company policy begins.