i read this story yesterday on Academy Learning Management and felt a lot implies to me....truly an exceptional one.....
It is a good story for all of us to hear relating to careers and social life........ ....very true...
Once upon a time a Washerman was bringing up two donkeys.
Let us say Donkey-A and Donkey-B.
Donkey-A felt it was very energetic and could do better than the other. It always tried to pull the washerman's attraction over it by taking more load and walking fast in front of him.
Innocent Donkey-B is normal, so it will walk normal, irrespective of the washerman's presence. After a period of time, Washerman started pressurizing Donkey-B to be like Donkey-A. But Donkey-B unable to walk fast, got continuous punishment from washerman. It was crying and told personally to Donkey-A "Dear friend, only we two are here, why to compete with each other....we can carry equal load at normal speed ".
That made Donkey-A all the more energetic and next day it told to washerman that it can carry more load and even it can run fast also.
Obviously happier washerman looked at Donkey-B.., his BP raised and he started kicking Donkey-B. Next day with smile, Donkey-A carried more load and started running fast. But it was breathtaking for Donkey-B and it couldn't act that way....But the washerman was frustrated, so he harassed Donkey-B terribly, and finally it fell down hopelessly.
Then Donkey-A felt itself as a supremo and happily started carrying more load with great speed. But now the Load of the Donkey-B is also being carried by Donkey-A., and still it has to run fast. For some period it did, finally due to fatigue it got tired and started feeling the pain. But washerman expected more from Donkey-A. It also tried best, but couldn't cope up with his owners demand. The Washerman got angry with Donkey-A also and started harassing to take more load... Donkey-A was crying for long time and then tried its best... But it couldn't meet the owner's satisfaction. Finally the day came when due to frustration the washerman killed Donkey-A and went for searching some other Donkeys.
Its an endless story....... ..
But the moral of the Story in Corporate and Social life is......, "Think all colleagues are same and that everyone is capable... Always share the Load equally..... Don't ever act smart in front of your Boss and never try for getting over-credit. ..
Don't feel happy when ur colleague is under pressure.. "
It doesn't matter if u r A or B, for the Boss u shall be always DONKEY
And most importantly,
Never Work Hard, Work Cleverly.... .
From India, Hyderabad
40It is a good story for all of us to hear relating to careers and social life........ ....very true...
Once upon a time a Washerman was bringing up two donkeys.
Let us say Donkey-A and Donkey-B.
Donkey-A felt it was very energetic and could do better than the other. It always tried to pull the washerman's attraction over it by taking more load and walking fast in front of him.
Innocent Donkey-B is normal, so it will walk normal, irrespective of the washerman's presence. After a period of time, Washerman started pressurizing Donkey-B to be like Donkey-A. But Donkey-B unable to walk fast, got continuous punishment from washerman. It was crying and told personally to Donkey-A "Dear friend, only we two are here, why to compete with each other....we can carry equal load at normal speed ".
That made Donkey-A all the more energetic and next day it told to washerman that it can carry more load and even it can run fast also.
Obviously happier washerman looked at Donkey-B.., his BP raised and he started kicking Donkey-B. Next day with smile, Donkey-A carried more load and started running fast. But it was breathtaking for Donkey-B and it couldn't act that way....But the washerman was frustrated, so he harassed Donkey-B terribly, and finally it fell down hopelessly.
Then Donkey-A felt itself as a supremo and happily started carrying more load with great speed. But now the Load of the Donkey-B is also being carried by Donkey-A., and still it has to run fast. For some period it did, finally due to fatigue it got tired and started feeling the pain. But washerman expected more from Donkey-A. It also tried best, but couldn't cope up with his owners demand. The Washerman got angry with Donkey-A also and started harassing to take more load... Donkey-A was crying for long time and then tried its best... But it couldn't meet the owner's satisfaction. Finally the day came when due to frustration the washerman killed Donkey-A and went for searching some other Donkeys.
Its an endless story....... ..
But the moral of the Story in Corporate and Social life is......, "Think all colleagues are same and that everyone is capable... Always share the Load equally..... Don't ever act smart in front of your Boss and never try for getting over-credit. ..
Don't feel happy when ur colleague is under pressure.. "
It doesn't matter if u r A or B, for the Boss u shall be always DONKEY
And most importantly,
Never Work Hard, Work Cleverly.... .
From India, Hyderabad
Good one! I guess team work always works better than individual task. Better for both types of performer. Jhuma
From India, Mumbai
From India, Mumbai
hiee.
I purely agree to this.
The smarter you try to be, the more the expectations and at the end of the day one sees himself in a pit dug by none other than he himself!
I wanna share here.
When I was in mumbai working in an Event mgt firm. I was quite excited to prove my capability since I was working in a so called professional organization.
Although my role was client servicing bringing corporate accounts, I was good in making PPT presentations. I would help another colleague of mine who was a level junior to mine since he dint know anything in PPT.
Everyone wud come to me asking for help...
Suddenly I one day realised, that this junior colleague of mine wud nicely give me Excel files/PPT very sweetly and then himself relax and show off!
Even i wud be busy doing double work helping out my colleagues and even taking blames coz i had helped them.
That was the day i realised better to perform just your own tasks as best you can within the given time frame and abilities and not stretch yourself too much that you end up losing.
Thats true its more important to work smarter than harder!
Cheers
Nisha
From India, Pune
I purely agree to this.
The smarter you try to be, the more the expectations and at the end of the day one sees himself in a pit dug by none other than he himself!
I wanna share here.
When I was in mumbai working in an Event mgt firm. I was quite excited to prove my capability since I was working in a so called professional organization.
Although my role was client servicing bringing corporate accounts, I was good in making PPT presentations. I would help another colleague of mine who was a level junior to mine since he dint know anything in PPT.
Everyone wud come to me asking for help...
Suddenly I one day realised, that this junior colleague of mine wud nicely give me Excel files/PPT very sweetly and then himself relax and show off!
Even i wud be busy doing double work helping out my colleagues and even taking blames coz i had helped them.
That was the day i realised better to perform just your own tasks as best you can within the given time frame and abilities and not stretch yourself too much that you end up losing.
Thats true its more important to work smarter than harder!
Cheers
Nisha
From India, Pune
Hi,
Very good story.
But, why did Donkey A took more load? I do not find a reason in the story? Is it for appreciation from the washerman or more feed from him or for what? Just for the sake of carrying more load? Or, for humiliating the donkey-B? The story does not tell anything on the reason or motive of donkey-A.
Thanks,
Jeevan
From India, Bangalore
Very good story.
But, why did Donkey A took more load? I do not find a reason in the story? Is it for appreciation from the washerman or more feed from him or for what? Just for the sake of carrying more load? Or, for humiliating the donkey-B? The story does not tell anything on the reason or motive of donkey-A.
Thanks,
Jeevan
From India, Bangalore
Well the story has a sadistic angle in a way it indicates that no matter how much u work ur boss will never be satisfied. Well HR is about believing in people...so i would suggest beleive in ur boss tooo!!! if u really want to grow up the corporate ladder u need to work hard put in that extra effort and i am sure u will get returns...yes i do agree to the fact that instead of competing with the collegues we should collaborate and work in teams..anyways it was a good attempt
Cheers
Shikha Sahai
From India, New Delhi
Cheers
Shikha Sahai
From India, New Delhi