<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Madhusudan C.S <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:madhusudancs@gmail.com">madhusudancs@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hello all,<br> This was an ordinary forward I received to today. But I thought this is an inspirational story and worth sharing with you all. Exactly points out why sharing and collaboration is important. Can we use it somewhere to convince people? <br>
<br>--- Story ---<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
There was a farmer who grew superior quality and award-winning corn. Each year
he entered his corn in the state fair where it won honors and prizes.</span> <br>
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One year a newspaper reporter interviewed him and learnt something interesting
about how he grew it. The reporter discovered that the farmer shared his seed
corn with his neighbors'. </span><br>
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"How can you afford to share your best seed corn with your neighbors when
they are entering corn in competition with yours each year?" the reporter
asked.</span> <br>
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"Why sir, "said the farmer, "didn't you know? The wind picks up
pollen from the ripening corn and swirls it from field to field. If my
neighbors grow inferior, sub-standard and poor quality corn, cross-pollination
will steadily degrade the quality of my corn. </span><br>
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If I am to grow good corn, I must help my neighbors grow good corn."</span>
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The farmer gave a superb insight into the connectedness of life. His corn
cannot improve unless his neighbor's corn also improves. So it is in the other
dimensions! </span> <br>
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Those who choose to be at harmony must help their neighbors and colleagues to
be at peace. Those who choose to live well must help others to live well. The
value of a life is measured by the lives it touches. </span><br>
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SUCCESS DOES NOT HAPPEN IN ISOLATION. IT IS VERY OFTEN A PARTICIPATIVE AND <br>
COLLECTIVE PROCESS. </span><br>
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So share the good practices, ideas, new learning with your family, team
members, neighbors and friends.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"></span></p>
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</div></blockquote><div><br><span style="background-color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"><font size="6">LOVELY STORY -very nice one , thanks for sharing ..</font></span><br></div></div><br>