A Conversation with an Ant ? (about management)

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Eh you, I called out to the ant scurrying away. It was carrying a piece of grain in its mouth; probably weighing double its weight.

The ant paused for a while and without keeping the grain on the floor looked up at me as if asking? what the hell do you want? Can't you see how busy I am??

"I know you are the busiest creature in the animal kingdom," I said.

The ant dropped the grain on the floor and took some deep breaths. If I would have done that, probably it would have been blown away in a jiffy. Coolly it asked, "What is it that you wish to know from me"

"I wish to know why you never rest. Why are you always running about" You are so busy that I never see you relaxing.?

The ant smiled at me and said, "I will share my management mantra with you."

My curiosity was aroused. Learning is learning whether it comes from an ant or from a lion. So I said, "Ok, tell me about it?"

In a conspiratorial tone it said (I had to lie down flat on the ground to hear), This piece of grain that you saw me carrying is the same one that I have been carrying for a year now. You have to create the impression that you are doing something. So when I lug the grain around, those who are watching me think that I am busy. In reality, I am not. I keep on rushing around from here and there to convey to others the message that I am too much occupied.?

Then winking, it hurried away, opening in the process my eyes to what truly happens in the corporate world.