Each day our e-mail in boxes are filled with fantastic offers for extending parts of our anatomy, getting millions from a Nigerian who does not even know our name and a share of Bill Gates billions.
Amongst these are always the send this email to five friends and get untold good fortune mails and only occasionally a real gem being circulated to everyone in someone’s address book’
This morning I got one of these and decided it was worth sharing as in demonstrates how strategic anticipation and thinking for ones self.
Two sons work for their father on the family farm. The younger brother had, for some years been given, more responsibility and reward, and one day the older brother asks his father to explain why.
The father says, ‘First, go to the Macintosh farm and see if they have any geese for sale – we need to add to our flock’.
The brother soon returns with the answer, ‘Yes they have five geese they can sell to us.’
That father then says, ‘Good, please ask them the price.’
The son returns with the answer, ‘The geese are £10 each.’
The father says, ‘Good, now ask if they can deliver the geese tomorrow.’
In due course the son returns with the answer, ‘Yes, they can deliver the geese them tomorrow.’
The father asks the older brother to wait and listen, and then calls to the younger brother in a nearby field, ‘Go to the Smith Farm and see if they have any geese for sale – we need to add to our flock.’
The younger brother soon returns with the answer, ‘Yes, they have five geese for £10 each, or ten geese for £8 each; and they can deliver them tomorrow – I asked them to deliver the five unless they heard otherwise from us in the next hour. I agreed that if we want the extra five geese we could buy them at £6 each.’
The father turned to the older son, who nodded his head in appreciation – he now realised why his brother received more responsibility and reward.
With thanks to the original author and do not hesitate to send any similar stories direct to us we would be pleased to publish them.
Each day our e-mail inbox is filled with fantastic offers for extending parts of our anatomy, getting millions from a Nigerian who does not even know our name and a share of Bill Gates billions.
Amongst these are always the send this email to five friends and get untold good fortune mails and only occasionally a real gem being circulated to everyone in someone’s address book’
This morning I got one of these gems and decided it was worth sharing as it demonstrates how strategic anticipation and the ability to think for yourself can lead to higher rewards.
Two sons work for their father on the family farm. The younger brother had, for some years been given, more responsibility and reward, and one day the older brother asks his father to explain why.
The father says, ‘First, go to the Macintosh farm and see if they have any geese for sale – we need to add to our flock’.
The brother soon returns with the answer, ‘Yes they have five geese they can sell to us.’
That father then says, ‘Good, please ask them the price.’
The son returns with the answer, ‘The geese are £10 each.’
The father says, ‘Good, now ask if they can deliver the geese tomorrow.’
In due course the son returns with the answer, ‘Yes, they can deliver the geese them tomorrow.’
The father asks the older brother to wait and listen, and then calls to the younger brother in a nearby field, ‘Go to the Smith Farm and see if they have any geese for sale – we need to add to our flock.’
The younger brother soon returns with the answer, ‘Yes, they have five geese for £10 each, or ten geese for £8 each; and they can deliver them tomorrow – I asked them to deliver the five unless they heard otherwise from us in the next hour. I agreed that if we want the extra five geese we could buy them at £6 each.’
The father turned to the older son, who nodded his head in appreciation – he now realised why his brother received more responsibility and reward.
With thanks to the original author and do not hesitate to send any similar stories direct to us we would be pleased to publish them.