Lets first watch the Chinese award winning animated short film "Three Monks" Produced by Shanghai animation studio, After the Cultural Revolution and fall of the political Gang of Four in 1976, the film was one of the first animated film created as part of the rebirth period. It is also referred to as The Three Buddhist Priests.
The film is based on the ancient Chinese proverb "One monk will shoulder two buckets of water; two monks will share the load, but add a third and no one will want to fetch water. The film does not contain any dialogues, allowing it to be watched by any culture, and a different music instrument was used to signify each monk.
The short film teaches many Management Lessons, lets discuss them in Detail.
Effort: When only one monk lived in the monastery, the effort to fill the buckets of water and bring them back to the monastery was more than the individual effort required to fetch water when two monks were living. When more and more people are added in an organization, the amount of effort per person must reduce and the synergy of all individual efforts must produce the desired results.
Process Improvement for productivity : The first monk, second monk and in the end all the three monks together used different processes to satisfy their needs of water. Every method is full filling the need, But the same method might not be effective in a different case. What a management needs to learn that different tasks need different processes or the same process to be improved over time, if necessary replaced. The primary purpose is to get the task done using the most economical and productive process.
Lets compare the process in some attributes.
Active Participation: There is one incident where the two monks measure the length of the stick to hang the barrel, center is measured by one while marking is done by the other. This shows that there is active participation from both the monks to get the work done. A management should strive for such participation because it improves productivity, efficiency and also acts as a motivator.
Team Wok: The importance of working as a team can clearly be learnt from the movie. It was only co-operation and team work that finally helped in saving their monastery from the fire and team work use with the improved process also reduce the efforts and conflict.
The film is based on the ancient Chinese proverb "One monk will shoulder two buckets of water; two monks will share the load, but add a third and no one will want to fetch water. The film does not contain any dialogues, allowing it to be watched by any culture, and a different music instrument was used to signify each monk.
The short film teaches many Management Lessons, lets discuss them in Detail.
Effort: When only one monk lived in the monastery, the effort to fill the buckets of water and bring them back to the monastery was more than the individual effort required to fetch water when two monks were living. When more and more people are added in an organization, the amount of effort per person must reduce and the synergy of all individual efforts must produce the desired results.
Process Improvement for productivity : The first monk, second monk and in the end all the three monks together used different processes to satisfy their needs of water. Every method is full filling the need, But the same method might not be effective in a different case. What a management needs to learn that different tasks need different processes or the same process to be improved over time, if necessary replaced. The primary purpose is to get the task done using the most economical and productive process.
Lets compare the process in some attributes.
Attributes
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One Person
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Two Person
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Three Person
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Work Tools
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Stick and two bucket
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Stick and one bucket
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Pulley , rope and two bucket
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Effort
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Maximum
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Lesser than one person
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Least
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Output
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Two Buckets
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One bucket
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One bucket
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Efficiency(Per bucket)
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Least
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More than one person
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Maximum
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Active Participation: There is one incident where the two monks measure the length of the stick to hang the barrel, center is measured by one while marking is done by the other. This shows that there is active participation from both the monks to get the work done. A management should strive for such participation because it improves productivity, efficiency and also acts as a motivator.
Team Wok: The importance of working as a team can clearly be learnt from the movie. It was only co-operation and team work that finally helped in saving their monastery from the fire and team work use with the improved process also reduce the efforts and conflict.
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