Creating environments in which
Cookie cutting is placed
On precarious pedestals
As the peak of workplace
Productivity –
Whilst new moulds are
Shattered into a million
Pieces before they can
Travel from neural pathways
To production lines –
Is an extremely effective
Approach to promoting
Intolerance,
Frustration,
And stagnation,
In the workplace.
The following behaviours
Will not be tolerated:
Tolerance of variation
Tolerance of adaptation
Tolerance of innovation
Tolerance of revolution.
The following benefits
Will not be procured:
Satisfaction
Creativity
Curiosity
Mental wellbeing.
A failure to innovate lies
Not with the biological synapses
Of a misrepresented workforce,
But with the decrepitude of
An employer who is intolerant
To change.
Distress tolerance plays a crucial role in ensuring employees exercise their curiosity in order to innovate.
This poem is inspired by recent research from Merck, which
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