Human, animals and in fact all living things learn to adapt to the environment as part of survival – they learn from their mistakes, avoid failures in order to improve their chance of successes.
The following video is a bit nostalgic. It was shown as part of management training from back when I was working in BC TEL. It shows how solutions valid at one point become the killer.
Asking questions and challenging the environment is needed as part of effective learning. Repeating the same mistake over and over again is not the solution either. In the pike’s case, a very limited vocabulary on how to test for changes in the environment is part of its problem.
Exercise
The pike syndrome is about:
– overly fearful of failures causes inaction as well as the ultimate failure. Getting past self imposed limitations is a key to success. Do provide for yourself a self learning environment.
– ineffective detection of changes or testing the waters can itself lead to failures. Expand your ability to ‘ask the right question’ or to ‘modify your approach’ in different situations.
You all know of real life examples of some company or individual that exhibit the sign of the “pike syndrome”. Describe.