There was a farmer who grew superior quality corn. Each year he entered his corn in the state fair where it won honour and prizes. One fine day a newspaper reporter interviewed him and learnt something interesting about how he grew it. The reporter discovered that the farmer shared his corn seed with his neighbours.
The reporter asked the farmer" How can you afford to share your best corn seed with your neighbours when they are competing with you each year?"
"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 neighbours grow inferior, sub- standard corn, cross pollination will steadily degrade the quality of my corn. If I am able to grow good corn, I must help my neighbours grow good corn ."
The farmer gave a superb insight into the connectedness of life. his corn cannot improve unless his neighbour's corn also improves. So it is in other walk of life. Those who choose to be at harmony must help their neighbours and colleagues to be at peace, those who choose to live well must help others to live well, for the value of life is measured by the lives it touches.
Only way to grow in an organization is to grow along with others and not grow at the cost of others.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the limits of the impossible.
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