Worker ants are manipulated in this manner to evidence the personal worth and self-interested development of senior ants. The worker ants are told “your highly sought-after place in the pile isn’t totally secure but, as it’s all warm and cozy, you would be well advised to keep quiet and get on with it.” In some cases, all of the ants in a group end up losing the pheromone trail and everybody starts following everybody else in a big confused spiral until they. When workers question the raison d’être of these senior ants they’re usually gagged. Senior ants fail to support their workers, they fail to brief and train them correctly and they also manipulate statistics and use PR sound bite opportunities for personal gain. Its symptoms manifest themselves in the following manner senior ants keep worker ants in the dark and feed them a constant diet of bullshit, with monotonous regularity. Many ants are ‘carriers’ of the bug, one which tends to proliferate with increasing seniority. A phenomenon where army ants follow each other in circles, sometimes until they die and thus known as an ant death spiral was captured on camera at a university in Venezuela. The DBS virus attacks the ADC immune system of the ants. This highly viral bug, although carried by individuals, has a profound and debilitating effect upon the group of long-suffering ants.
Pretty depressing stuff indeed… Unfortunately, the ‘ADC’ infection is usually compounded by a liberal smattering of ‘DBS’ virus. Some ants use their eyes to look at a path toward a food source, while many ants cannot see clearly or are blind like army ants. Maybe you’re an ‘ant’ trudging along within the circle, finding it difficult to break away from the norm but wanting to go and look for that pheromone trail. The ant death spiral is formed when ants follow the pheromone signal and start moving round and round in a locked motion. Because it’s how we do things round here. How often do we unquestioningly follow the ‘ant’ in front and do what we’ve always done, for that reason alone? Because it’s the policy. The powerful and emblematic image of the ant death circle made me immediately think of parallels in conventional performance management – the self-perpetuating downward spiral of targets, binary comparisons, internalised peer vs peer competition, and so on. Here are a few techniques: Connect a food trail: To intervene in the ant death spiral, connect a food trail that serves as a pathway for. By providing new channels, ants can be guided out of the spiral and onto a different course. The ants then blindly follow this circular trail until they die of exhaustion. To rescue ants from the death spiral, offer alternative pathways that divert their pheromone-following behaviour. Each ant then follows the ant in front and the group forms a continuously rotating circle. What happens is that ants sometimes lose the pheromone track laid down for them to follow, and veer off course. On the train to work this morning, a friend told me about a fascinating phenomenon known as the ‘Ant Death Circle’ (also called the ‘Ant Death Spiral’ or ‘Ant Mill’).
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