What Are Your Monkeys and Bananas?

September 26, 2014

One of the phrases my coworkers and I used a lot (at another firm during my career) in times of frustration was “monkeys and bananas.” That was our way of saying that we were operating under a bunch of constraints and no one could explain a logical or rational reason for those constraints.  “That’s the way it’s always been done…” is the beginning of an explanation that would always irritate me.  Just because something has always been done that way doesn’t mean it’s the way it should continue to be done.  So…how does that relate to monkeys and bananas??? Continue reading “What Are Your Monkeys and Bananas?”

Is Inertia Costing You Money?

February 23, 2012

Let’s face it. We human beings are generally creatures of habit. We tend to do the same things over and over even if we aren’t always thrilled with the result, something Albert Einstein called the definition of insanity. Continue reading “Is Inertia Costing You Money?”