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There was a family of ghosts living in a place; they had made their homes. This was agricultural land belonging to a farmer. The farmer always used to plough it to grow new
crops. This action of the farmer always disturbed the ghost’s family as their houses used to destroy and they had to build their houses again. They had to do this practice every farming season and they became fed up with this routine. They had their chief ghost, to whom they always put their request to have some solution, but the chief ghost always delayed his action and never resolved the issue, which resulted in frustration amongst the ghost family.One
day when the chief ghost had gone anywhere, the ghost family decided to meet
the farmer to have an agreement with him. They went to the farmer’s house in the shape of a delegation and met him to resolve the issue. One the ghost said to the
farmer’ “We live in the land where you grow your crops in every season. We have
our houses, occupies with our wives and kids. But the problem comes when you plough
your land and destroy our houses”. The farmer replied, “He has to plough his
land to cultivate new crops and I can’t stop to do so”. The ghost said, “We
have a solution, if you don’t plough the field and don’t destroy our houses. Every
season, we will provide you the same quantity of wheat which you get out of
this field”. The farmer became happy as he wouldn’t do any effort and will get
the same quantity of wheat. He accepted the deal and informed the ghost family
about the quantity of wheat he gets from his land.
The
group of ghosts returned to their home happily as now their homes will not be
destroyed. When they reached home, the chief ghost was also at home. They told
him about their deal with the farmer cheerfully but the chief ghost got annoyed with
them for such an agreement with the farmer. He told them, “Stupid, why you
agreed to give wheat to the farmer, rather you should threaten the farmer and
he would have agreed on your terms. I will go tonight to the farmer’s house to
frighten him and will get the land vacated without any condition.
It was
unfortunate for the chief ghost that, at that night farmer has planned to catch
the cat which used to spoil his milk on daily basis. The farmer had prepared a trap
for the cat and placed it in the window. At night when the chief ghost tried to
enter the farmer’s house from that window, he got entangled in the trap. The farmer
put a sack on the ghost considering it the cat and started to beat him with a
stick. After some time when the farmer opened the sack to release the cat, he
saw the chief ghost there, badly beaten by him. He inquired the ghost, “Why you
came to my house”? The chief ghost, who was already in critical condition said,
“I had come to ask you, whether you will like to take wheat as per agreement has done today or we may give you ready flour for your ease”. The farmer said, “Yes
give me flour in place of wheat”. The chief ghost returned home and told his
family the whole story.
So to get better results, it is rightly said that “Trust Teamwork and Delegation of Authority”.
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