The Fable of the Ant
Every day, A small ant arrives at work very early and starts work immediately. She produces a lot and she is very happy. The chief, a lion, thought that the ant can produce so much without a supervisor; wouldn’t she produce even more if she had a supervisor? So, he recruited a cockroach who has extensive experience as a supervisor.
The cockroach’s first decision was to set up a clocking in attendance system. He also needed a secretary to help him write and type his reports. He recruited a spider that managed the archives and monitored all phone calls.
The lion was delighted with the cockroach’s reports and asked him to produce graphs to describe production rates and to analyze trends so that the lion could use them for presentation at board meetings. The cockroach had to buy a new computer and a laser printer and recruited a fly to manage the IT department.
The lion came to the conclusion that it was high time to nominate a person in charge of the department where the ant worked. The position was given to the cicada whose first decision was to buy a carpet and an ergonomic chair for his office.
The cicada also needed a computer and a personal assistant whom he brought from his previous department to help him prepare a Work and Budget Control Strategic Optimization Plan.
The department where the ant works is now a sad place where nobody laughs anymore and everybody has become upset. The cicada convinced the boss, the lion, of the absolute necessity to start a climate study of the environment. Production was less than before.
So, he recruited the owl, a prestigious and renowned consultant to carry an audit and suggest solutions. The owl spent 3 months in the department and came up with an enormous report in several volumes that concluded: “The Department is overstaffed.” Guess who the lion fires first? The ant, of course, because she showed ‘lack of motivation and had a negative attitude.”
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5 年Beautiful story