Monks who changed their lives

Three Monks

Prof Mandi - a monk in terms of his teaching pedagogy has yet again arrived with a distinguishing style of teaching.Graphics coupled with good audio enhances the impact of the Educational medium.

Three Monks is a Chinese animated short, released in 1980 and directed by A Da. It is one of the most famous and beloved of Shanghai Animation Film Studio's productions, and has won awards at film festivals throughout the world.
In the movie : -
"one monk fetches water to drink",
"two monks carry water to drink"
"three monks"
The unfinished third sentence reflects the film's central question, which is whether the three main characters will learn to work together so that they can all have water to drink.






The movie highlights the following learnings that we must incorporate in order to achieve the management in an organization. 

1. Designing Team Work.
2. Defining Team Roles.
3. Cohesiveness.
4. Achieving Excellence Efficiency & Effectiveness.

Designing Team Work: -

The movie succinctly portrays the transformation monks carried while designing the work;
In first case monk 1 carries two buckets of water on his shoulders so as to achieve the best possible ergonomics and efficiency.

In case 2 monks design the system using scale to design the best possible way to carry the bucket of water with minimum effort i.e. max efficiency.

In case 3 monks design a system using Pulley (an involvement of innovation) to come up with a solution to divide the work. 

Scientific and objectives measurements and instruments  used to resolve the conflict.

Defining team roles : -

When only one Monk was there he was doing all the work necessary for the monastery but as the monks increased the work increased and they started facing problems. Even though they came with a design to solve the efficiency they could not work effectively.

The problem of effectiveness could only be solved when they designated the roles to each other in the end. The roles were not only specific but also equivalent.

Cohesiveness : -

In the situation of crises Individual sums become bigger than what was there individually .

Excellence Efficiency & Effectiveness : - 
Workplace efficiency, performance and productivity can often be improved by introducing and measuring any change to working practice.
Three Monks did it by making change in the working practice by pulling the water through pulley instead of fetching it each time.