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Every day, a small ant arrives at work very early and starts work immediately.

She produces a lot and she was happy.

The Chief, a lion, was surprised to see that the ant was working without supervision.

He thought if the ant can produce so much without supervision, wouldn’t she produce even more if she

had a supervisor! So he recruited a cockroach who had extensive experience as supervisor and who was famous forwriting excellent reports.

The cockroach’s first decision was to set up a clocking in attendance system. He also needed a secretary to help him write and type his reports and …... he recruited a spider, who managed the archives and monitored all phone calls.

The lion was delighted with the cockroach's reports and asked him to produce graphs to describe production rates and to analyze trends, so that he could use them for presentations at Board‘s meetings.

So the cockroach had to buy a new computer and a laser printer and ... ... recruited a fly to manage the ITdepartment.

The ant, who had once been so productive and relaxed, hated this new plethora of paperwork and meetings which used up most of her time…!

The lion came to the conclusion that it was high time to nominate a person in charge of the department

where the ant worked. The position was given to the cicada, whose first decision was to buy a carpet and an ergonomic chair for his office. The new person in charge, the cicada, also needed a computer and a personal assistant ,who he brought from his previous department, to help him prepare a Work and Budget Control Strategic Optimisation Plan …

The Department where the ant works is now a sad place, where nobody laughs anymore and everybody has become upset...

It was at that time that the cicada convinced the boss , the lion, of the absolute necessity to start a climatic study of the environment .

Having reviewed the charges for running the ant’s department , the lion found out that the production was much less than before .

So he recruited the owl , a prestigious and renowned consultant to carry out an audit and suggest solutions.

The owl spent three months in the department and came up with an enormous report , in several volumes,

that concluded :“ The department is overstaffed ...”

Guess who the lion fires first?

The ant , of course, because she

“showed lack of motivation and had a negative attitude".

MORAL: - Positive attitude with true motivation always speed up work with good results.

 

 Top Comment : Makrand Bhave   | 07 02 2009 11:36:57 +0000
Beena, its an apt example for todays generation. Very inspirational and very grounded too! Thanks for the referral and ahsring as well.
 
19 comments on "Story of an ant without motivation"
  Commented by  Tanima, First Medical Services Pvt. Ltd.    | 10 21 2011 11:55:16 +0000
Truly a Nice Insight with a great example, Thanks for sharing with Us. Thanks.
:)
  Commented by  Srinivas suravajhala, Asst. Manager.    | 10 21 2011 10:50:04 +0000
Well said Beenaji portraying the reality of the day.  It seems you have an offer from Mr. Allan, better you work out this.  Thanks for sharing this phenomenal piece of work. All the very best.
  Commented by  Allan Camba, Lead Laboratory Asst., Good Samaritan Hospital    | 10 21 2011 08:53:03 +0000
Hello!  I was looking for a great story to illustrate and I came upon your story.  Did you write this story yourself Beena?  This is really great.  I am wondering if you would allow me to illustrate this to a book.  The book will be sold and will all proceeds will be given to the children in our village in the Philippines.  Please email me at ilogboy@yahoo.com.  If you are not the author, please anyone, tell me who the author of this great story so that I may collaborate with him/her.  Thanks a lot!
  Commented by  Vineet Prakash, Sales/BD Manager, Tata Power    | 07 11 2009 06:58:40 +0000
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Really a amazing work you have done Beena. The moral was not negative. It was really a good one. A positive attitude to any work you do gives a positive result always.
  Commented by  Viktor Stephen, COO, Business Mashup/Partner Get.Next.Job    | 07 08 2009 07:40:30 +0000
Thanks Varsha, guess you will never get my name right. 
  Commented by  SHASHI BHUSHAN DIKSHIT, Civil Engineer-Highway Roadway, working for U.P.R.R.D.A    | 07 06 2009 18:58:18 +0000
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the explanation gives a conclusion that hardworking,sincere and producing maximum is sacked in the currentway of working due to poor management.
  Commented by  varsha, technical manager(QMS)    | 07 06 2009 15:56:13 +0000
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thanks to beena jee.. 
VERY WELL SAID Mr Victor .... very nice comment  
  Commented by  Vivek Singh, Construction Manager L&T    | 07 03 2009 09:53:08 +0000
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I think we shall extract the immoral in the story than moral of the story.
  Commented by  Makrand Bhave, Sales Promotion Manager, XYZ    | 07 03 2009 04:56:51 +0000
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I dont think she got the moral wrong. Its the negative thats being negated here!! Its a very articulate way of opposing the Cicada and the Cockroach! 
  Commented by  Mohammed Abdul Bari, Network Support Engineer@ETISALAT, Dubai    | 07 03 2009 04:38:50 +0000
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Very excellent examples from which we have to gain a lot, but overall the summary is do the things depending upon the situation and on the base of the requirement of the organization/company but not on the base of your requirement….Every where you will find the leg pullers don’t avoid them just defeat them.
  Commented by  BEENA AGARWAL, Head/VP/GM-Corporate Planning/Strategy, ANADI HI TECH AGRO PVT LTD    | 07 03 2009 04:24:07 +0000
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Thanks Mr Viktor and Mr Aras .I appreciate your comment and suggetions .
  Commented by  Nitin M Aras, Head/VP/GM-Tech. Support, Wintech Taparia Limited    | 07 03 2009 04:20:53 +0000
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Great Beena, Looking in the present scenario, it is very true, but ultimate lesson is presenting the wrong moral of the story. It should be like Viktor Mentioned. My opinion.
  Commented by  Hareesh Babu Sarnam, Construction-Construction Management, Parsons Corporation    | 07 02 2009 18:22:58 +0000
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Excellente! devolverá para más
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Nice Example of now-a-days Corporate Policy
Thanks for referral.
Nice Insight !!
  Commented by  Viktor Stephen, COO, Business Mashup/Partner Get.Next.Job    | 07 02 2009 11:50:03 +0000
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Did you get the moral wrong? I thing the moral should be "Poor people managers can cause irreparable damage" The cockroach and the cicada were both poor people managers. They were looking for their self-interest and did nothing to motivate the ant. So, the ant which once had a positive attitude and was a productive worker was fired on grounds of “showed lack of motivation and had a negative attitude".
  Commented by  Makrand Bhave, Sales Promotion Manager, XYZ    | 07 02 2009 11:36:57 +0000
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Beena, its an apt example for todays generation. Very inspirational and very grounded too! Thanks for the referral and ahsring as well.
  Commented by  Abhishek Tiwari, Network Admin/System Admin, STPL INc.    | 07 02 2009 11:33:27 +0000
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Nice One Beena Ji.
  Commented by  Mangala Shetty, Project coordinator    | 07 02 2009 11:02:35 +0000
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Nicely explained beenajee... thanks 
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