Like Barnacles on the Titanic.

There are some organisations where people’s behaviour is so stuck, fixed, and unchangeable, that no amount of ‘off sites’, professional development, facilitation, motivation, incentive schemes, or leadership will budge them.

Somewhere in the organisations’ history, someone did what is being asked of the staff, and they were publicly humiliated, executed, and their scalp speared into a pike and hoisted high above the public square where it remained for months - if not years.

At least that’s how the staff remember it.

So they turn up to the latest pep talk, listen politely, then return to their desks and unlock their computers and go back to typing.

Like barnacles on the Titanic.