{"id":34,"date":"2007-06-03T00:43:40","date_gmt":"2007-06-03T05:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ashokkarania.com\/blog\/?p=34"},"modified":"2007-06-03T00:43:40","modified_gmt":"2007-06-03T05:43:40","slug":"teamwork-ego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashok-karania-wordpress.staging9.com\/index.php\/teamwork-ego\/","title":{"rendered":"Teamwork &#038; Ego!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One more good anecdote on teamwork from <a href=\"www.idea-bank.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Idea-Bank<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The sin (and danger) of excessive pride (or an excessive ego) is admirably demonstrated in this simple fable:<\/p>\n<p>A frog asked two geese to take him south with them. At first they resisted; they didn&#8217;t see how it could be done. Finally, the frog suggested that the two geese hold a stick in their beaks and that he would hold on to it with his mouth.<\/p>\n<p>So off the unlikely threesome went, flying southward over the countryside. It was really quite a sight. People looked up and expressed great admiration at this demonstration of creative teamwork.<\/p>\n<p>Someone said, &#8220;It&#8217;s wonderful! Who was so clever to discover such a fine way to travel?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Whereupon the frog opened his mouth and said, &#8220;It was I,&#8221; as it plummeted to the earth.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Teamwork\" rel=\"tag\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Teamwork+Tales\" rel=\"tag\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Management+Quotes\" rel=\"tag\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One more good anecdote on teamwork from Idea-Bank The sin (and danger) of excessive pride (or an excessive ego) is admirably demonstrated in this simple fable: A frog asked two geese to take him south with them. At first they resisted; they didn&#8217;t see how it could be done. Finally, the frog suggested that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-career","category-classical-gyan","category-management-tales"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashok-karania-wordpress.staging9.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashok-karania-wordpress.staging9.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashok-karania-wordpress.staging9.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashok-karania-wordpress.staging9.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashok-karania-wordpress.staging9.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashok-karania-wordpress.staging9.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashok-karania-wordpress.staging9.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashok-karania-wordpress.staging9.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashok-karania-wordpress.staging9.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashok-karania-wordpress.staging9.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}