Context:
The story of the three Buddhist Monks is an anime film directed by A Da. The film has got many recognitions including:
- Won the outstanding film award at China's Ministry of Culture.
- Won the Best animated film prize at the first Golden Rooster Awards in 1981.
It is a short and beautiful movie
with a wonderful message. A must watch for managers and practitioners
who try to implement working-teams in an organization without looking at
the other side of the picture.
Here's the film, do watch it before you proceed:
Learnings:
The
movie throws light on some important concepts of management.
1) Productivity - It is a measure of how well an operations system functions.
2) Design of Operations systems: So how do we increase the productivity of a system. One of the most important tool is the designing the operation systems. It includes finding answers to 4 main questions:
This video talks about the importance of efficiency.
Efficiency can be described by productivity ratio which is Total output/
Total input.
Different
processes have different efficiency levels. One of the important
functions of a manager is to optimize the process, improve the work
design and try to aim for the most efficient process.
2) Design of Operations systems: So how do we increase the productivity of a system. One of the most important tool is the designing the operation systems. It includes finding answers to 4 main questions:
It
is a continuous process of optimizing the work so that maximum
efficiency can be derived out of it. So Now that we know the importance
of efficiency and a brief idea about how to improve efficiency, let us
look at the third part of the puzzle - Team work.
3) Teamwork
Without Cooperation, 1 monk can fetch 2 buckets of water, 2 monks can fetch 1 bucket of water and 3 monks will fetch no water at all.
With cooperation,
3 monks can increase the efficiency of the process to a level
previously unattainable. (Innovation, creativity etc plays an important
part).
Thus
every manager who profess the importance of team work should also look
at the flip side and the negative effects by having an imbalanced team.
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