What to do with bad apples

Ever heard of the expression “one bad apple can spoil the barrel”? It came up during a class in the Agile People Coach at #agilepeople that Im attending right now, great inspirations, learnings and discussion there by the way :).

The expression states that one apple can corrupt or destroy the whole barrel. I think that this analogy for team och organisations is sometimes useful but as always it only catches one perspective or in this case a glimpse of a perspective. At the discussion a fellow participant Richard Svarre said “But what if it’s the barrel that is bad?” referring to the system. I felt that wow now I got a new perspective of an already existing expression and of course I had to make that into a bloggtoon, I hope you like it.