Pen Thoughts

    The fisherman In 2014 I read a small book, one of those pocket-sized management fables in the same family as Who Moved My Cheese? I no longer have it, and I cannot remember its title. I remember one story from it, because I wrote about it on this blog that year . A man is fishing from his boat when he sees a snake with a frog in its mouth. He feels sorry for the frog, so he reaches down, takes it from the snake and lets it go. Then he feels sorry for the snake, which has lost its meal. He has no food on board, only a bottle of bourbon, so he pours a few drops into the snake's mouth. The snake swims away happy. A few minutes later, something knocks against the side of the boat. The fisherman looks down. The snake is back, with two frogs. The story is most often credited to the management writer Michael LeBoeuf, whose book rested on a single principle: the things that get rewarded get done. When I first read it, I took the lesson most people take. The fisherman meant well, ...

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It's been a while since i'm focused on reading books that discusses group dynamics, management, productivity and organizational structures. i'm finding so many interesting ideas and frameworks to learn, share and use through my daily tasks in my current job. in one of the ancient books i was reviewing (when i say ancient, i mean written in the 60's) a found an interesting story that talk about rewards in work environment and how it affect negatively as much as positively on the end results. it goes like this: "A weekend fisherman looked over the side of his boat and saw a snake with a frog in its mouth.  Feeling sorry for the frog, he reached down, gently removed the frog from the snake's mouth and let the frog go free. But now he felt sorry for the hungry snake. Having no food, he took out a flask of bourbon and poured a few drops into the snake's mouth. The snake swam away happy, the frog was happy and the man was happy for having performed suc...