An
in-depth look at demotivational posters - Irresponsibility
 Human
nature is such that people tend to look for others to blame when things go
wrong, or when things don't work out the way they want them to. Blaming others
is second nature in most people.
And
in what more beautiful way could such nature be captured than has been done by
the Irresponsibility demotivational poster: "No single raindrop believes it
is to blame for the flood."
Anyone
who has worked in a managerial role in a company knows all-too-well the
frustration that comes when things go wrong say, in a project. Such frustration
hardly results from the fact that things have gone wrong, but that no single
employee is often willing to take the blame. It's all-too-common! John blames
Sarah. Sarah blames Ahmadi. Ahmadi blames Kojo. Kojo blames Harry. Harry blames
Tanya....the list goes on. Yet, not a single person believes he or she is to
blame.
In
most cases, irresponsibility results not from a single action but from a
collection of actions. Each time a project goes wrong, a chain of events lead up
to it. There are zillions of water drops in a flood yet, not one believes it
alone is responsible for the flood. True. For a single drop could never lead to
a flood. Yet, billions of drops could. The same holds in running a company. A
single dishonest employee will likely not do sufficient harm to run a company
down. But if half your employees happened to be dishonest, you could as well
start envisaging the end of the company.
Collective
errors are often required to bring about catastrophically negative
results. And that's exactly what the Irresponsibility demotivational poster
tries to say.
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