cdocumentsandsettingsmkpandeydesktoptheant 090314073426 phpapp01
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As leaders we should always watching for such situations when opportunities seems glittery but opportunity cost estimation is blurring.TRANSCRIPT
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or
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Every day, a small ant arrives at work very early and
starts work immediately.
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She produces a lot and she was happy.
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The Chief, a lion,
was surprised to see that
the ant was working
without supervision.
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He thought if the ant can
produce so much without
supervision, wouldn’t she
produce even more if she
had a supervisor!
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So he recruited a
cockroach
who had extensive
experience as supervisor
and who was famous for
writing excellent reports.
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The cockroach’s first
decision was to set up a
clocking in attendance
system.
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He also needed a secretary
to help him write and type
his reports and …
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... he recruited a spider,
who managed the archives
and monitored all phone
calls.
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The lion was delighted
with the cockroach's
reports
and asked him to produce
graphs to describe
production rates and to
analyse trends, so that he
could use them for
presentations at
Board‘s meetings.
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So the cockroach had to buy a new computer and a
laser printer and ...
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... recruited a fly
to manage the IT
department.
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The ant, who had once been so productive and relaxed,
hated this new plethora of paperwork and meetings
which used up most of her time…!
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The lion came to the
conclusion that it was high
time to nominate a person in
charge of the department
where the ant worked.
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The position was given to the
cicada, whose first decision was to
buy a carpet and an ergonomic
chair for his office.
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The new person in charge, the
cicada, also needed a computer and
a personal assistant ,who he
brought from his previous
department, to help him prepare a
Work and Budget Control Strategic
Optimisation Plan …
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The Department where the ant
works is now a sad place, where
nobody laughs anymore and
everybody has become upset...
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It was at that time that
the cicada convinced the
boss , the lion, of the
absolute necessity to
start a climatic study of
the environment .
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Having reviewed the
charges for running
the ant’s department ,
the lion found out
that the production
was much less than
before.
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So he recruited the
owl , a prestigious and
renowned consultant
to carry out an audit
and suggest
solutions.
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The owl spent three
months in the
department and came
up with an enormous
report , in several
volumes,
that concluded :
“ “ The department is The department is
overstaffed ...”overstaffed ...”
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Guess who the lion fires first?
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The ant , of course, because she “showed lack of motivation and had a negative
attitude".
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Os personagens desta fábula são fictícios; qualquer semelhança com pessoas ou factos reais é pura coincidência.
NB:NB:
The characters in this fable are The characters in this fable are fictitious; any resemblance toreal fictitious; any resemblance toreal people or facts within the people or facts within the CorporationCorporation is pure coincidenceis pure coincidence……
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Adapted from Portuguese by PR. Obrigado Mário.