Random thought for the day...

At a former employer we created an on-boarding process that was designed to indoctrinate newhires into the company culture. This included values and ways of thinking the company cherished.

One of the scenarios we gave to young newhires was the following:

"You are late for something very important and hurry to make it on time. As a result you are pulled over and ticketed by the local police. What do you do? Explain your approach."

The newhires are asked to discuss their answer in small groups and present it to the class.

The creativity, variety and rationalizations we saw were truly amazing. Breathtaking in some instances. We were truly amazed at what they came up with to avoid the ticket.

However after a few years we actually stopped being surprised by the looks of amazement and disbelief on the newhire's faces when we presented our alternative answer...

"You did something against the rules. Simply pay the ticket and plan ahead next time"

Not once in all the years of doing that exercise did we have a group come up with that.