It's a fine sunny day in the forest and a rabbit is
sitting outside his
burrow, tippy-tapping on his typewriter. Along comes a
fox, out for a
walk.
Fox: "What are you working on?"
Rabbit: "My thesis."
Fox: "Hmm... What is it about?"
Rabbit: "Oh, I'm writing about how rabbits eat foxes."
Fox: "That's ridiculous! Any fool knows that rabbits
don't eat foxes!"
Rabbit: "Come with me and I'll show you!"
They both disappear into the rabbit's burrow. After
few minutes,
gnawing
on a fox bone, the rabbit returns to his typewriter
and resumes typing.
Soon a wolf comes along and stops to watch the
hardworking rabbit.
Wolf: "What's that you are writing?" Rabbit: "I'm
doing a thesis on how
rabbits eat wolves."
Wolf: "you don't expect to get such rubbish published,
do you?"
Rabbit: "No problem. Do you want to see why?"
The rabbit and the wolf go into the burrow and again
the rabbit returns
by himself, after a few minutes, and goes back to
typing.
Finally a bear comes along and asks, "What are you
doing?
Rabbit: "I'm doing a thesis on how rabbits eat bears."
Bear: "Well that's absurd! "
Rabbit: "Come into my home and I'll show you"
Scene: As they enter the! Burrow, the rabbit
introduces the bear to the
lion.
Moral:
IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW SILLY YOUR THESIS TOPIC IS; WHAT
MATTERS IS WHOM
YOU HAVE AS
A SUPERVISOR.
Management Lesson
In the context of the working world:
IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW BAD YOUR PERFORMANCE IS; WHAT
MATTERS IS
WHETHER YOUR
BOSS LIKES YOU OR NOT...
Sri
From India, Bangalore
sitting outside his
burrow, tippy-tapping on his typewriter. Along comes a
fox, out for a
walk.
Fox: "What are you working on?"
Rabbit: "My thesis."
Fox: "Hmm... What is it about?"
Rabbit: "Oh, I'm writing about how rabbits eat foxes."
Fox: "That's ridiculous! Any fool knows that rabbits
don't eat foxes!"
Rabbit: "Come with me and I'll show you!"
They both disappear into the rabbit's burrow. After
few minutes,
gnawing
on a fox bone, the rabbit returns to his typewriter
and resumes typing.
Soon a wolf comes along and stops to watch the
hardworking rabbit.
Wolf: "What's that you are writing?" Rabbit: "I'm
doing a thesis on how
rabbits eat wolves."
Wolf: "you don't expect to get such rubbish published,
do you?"
Rabbit: "No problem. Do you want to see why?"
The rabbit and the wolf go into the burrow and again
the rabbit returns
by himself, after a few minutes, and goes back to
typing.
Finally a bear comes along and asks, "What are you
doing?
Rabbit: "I'm doing a thesis on how rabbits eat bears."
Bear: "Well that's absurd! "
Rabbit: "Come into my home and I'll show you"
Scene: As they enter the! Burrow, the rabbit
introduces the bear to the
lion.
Moral:
IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW SILLY YOUR THESIS TOPIC IS; WHAT
MATTERS IS WHOM
YOU HAVE AS
A SUPERVISOR.
Management Lesson
In the context of the working world:
IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW BAD YOUR PERFORMANCE IS; WHAT
MATTERS IS
WHETHER YOUR
BOSS LIKES YOU OR NOT...
Sri
From India, Bangalore
really a good story...its really matter a lot whether you are in good books of your BOSS or not. Deepa
From India, Gurgaon
4From India, Gurgaon
Thanks Sreedevi.
Your story was wonderful.
I guess it is really true in current world.
One who blindly obeys the orders of the superiors are rated the best.
True performance many a time goes un acknowledged.
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sree
From India, New Delhi
Your story was wonderful.
I guess it is really true in current world.
One who blindly obeys the orders of the superiors are rated the best.
True performance many a time goes un acknowledged.
-----
sree
From India, New Delhi
Thanks Sri !! Really good. It is more often the boss's ability which determines one's career prospects. Another important one is what u are perceived to be in the organisation. So image building + Lion boss u r likely to be numero uno :!: !: KK Nair
From India, Bhopal
From India, Bhopal
I totally agree with what everyone has said in the earlier posts. Our boss matters more than anything....so the big problem is that why are there so many bad bosses?
As HR people we should be interested in these issues because it affects employee performance. It is a must that everyone reads this research paper: "why your boss is programmed to be a dictator" (it's available free to download at www.changethis.com). You will learn a lot from reading it...and if you are a boss yourself, it will really challenge your thinking.
As HR people we should be interested in these issues because it affects employee performance. It is a must that everyone reads this research paper: "why your boss is programmed to be a dictator" (it's available free to download at www.changethis.com). You will learn a lot from reading it...and if you are a boss yourself, it will really challenge your thinking.
This was interesting, indeed.
This also may be true upto a certain extent (in the present working world).
But this need not be true always.
The issue is GOOD BOSSES sometimes HAVE TO allow poor folks under him / her to become BIG BOSSES. That's the problem :)
How do you perceive this problem, folks?
Ash.
From China, Guangzhou
This also may be true upto a certain extent (in the present working world).
But this need not be true always.
The issue is GOOD BOSSES sometimes HAVE TO allow poor folks under him / her to become BIG BOSSES. That's the problem :)
How do you perceive this problem, folks?
Ash.
From China, Guangzhou
Hi Ashwini,
I don't think anyone should HAVE to allow bad people to become bosses....the risk to the organization is too great.
I mean, think about what happened with NASA - two space shuttles crashed, all because bosses didn't want to listen to their subordinate engineers. Would you be willing to take such a risk with your organization?
I think that we all still suffer from a 'boss is king' mindset, even if we don't like our boss. We just believe that's the way life is, and that we can't change it.
If I was a NASA astronaut, I would refuse to fly until NASA changed its organization structure to one at least resembling the one that the author proposes. Put it this way: knowing what you do (assuming you read the article), would you let your loved one fly on a shuttle mission?
I don't think anyone should HAVE to allow bad people to become bosses....the risk to the organization is too great.
I mean, think about what happened with NASA - two space shuttles crashed, all because bosses didn't want to listen to their subordinate engineers. Would you be willing to take such a risk with your organization?
I think that we all still suffer from a 'boss is king' mindset, even if we don't like our boss. We just believe that's the way life is, and that we can't change it.
If I was a NASA astronaut, I would refuse to fly until NASA changed its organization structure to one at least resembling the one that the author proposes. Put it this way: knowing what you do (assuming you read the article), would you let your loved one fly on a shuttle mission?
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