Honesty is still the best policy!!!

Yogin · 02-16-2009, 02:17 PM

HONESTY IS STILL THE BEST POLICY

Once a general manager wanted to test his people who had come from all over India, about their values of life.

He announced that in their seminar folder, there is PVC pouch and in it there is a seed. When they return, they must put it in a good soil in a pot and look after it very well.

He would hold a competition in the next year's seminar and that the best plants would be awarded suitably.

Everyone did what was told to him. A year passed quickly. And next year in a big hall, there were hundreds of pots and a great variety of plants-a great scene.

Except one pot in which the soil was there and no plant! The owner was standing quietly and seemingly ashamed of himself!

The general manager called him on the stage. He asked him what happened and he told him the truth. He planted the seed which he was given – and did that was to be done- but nothing happened!

The general manager declared him the winner!

Everyone was shocked. It was announced, "Gentlemen! The seeds I gave you were boiled seeds. You planted them and nothing happened! You acted smartly and used some other seeds.

This man was honest to his work and, therefore he did not cheat me or himself!"

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shabbir · 02-16-2009, 02:33 PM

I cannot agree on this because if your manager asks to do something you should do it the way he wants the result and not the way he told to get the result and rush to him that its not working.

Yogin · 02-16-2009, 02:37 PM

"This man was honest to his work and, therefore he did not cheat me or himself!"" This is wht all the organization r lookinh forward....if u r given the job n if u do it honestly wth true spirit den only the organization environment would b peaceful orelse there would b ppl who r more smarter den the boss :P

shabbir · 02-16-2009, 02:39 PM

Normally managers tell what they want and if you try to do it only one way which did not work you should always hear. Go the extra mile to get it done.

Yogin · 02-16-2009, 02:43 PM

but in this story the manager have specifically given the employee the boiled seeds 2 grow from which he wanted to check the honest of the employee!!!
being more precisely n in humanism the work done with total honestly always is sweet like sugar but if not don in honesty then you wont like the taste of sugar too!!!

shabbir · 02-16-2009, 02:58 PM

I still disagree such managerial acts who gives something for testing rather than doing.

I haven't seen any.

Yogin · 02-16-2009, 03:02 PM

I do agree with you but in some case people dont expect to be smarter they just expect to do things which they want to, to get a precise output which they are looking forward.....