Long ago in some faraway village lived a man who could tell time...So when kings have meetings and court cases, they'd send a servant to ask what the time is so that they can keep a record of wat time the different meetings took place.
Some ppl also requested the time teller to notify them when it's time for their pre-agreed appointments so that they don't miss them. Not everyone could afford time so rich people and kings were the only timely people.
The prospector...
A certain wealthy man heard about this time telling phenomenon and decided to spend days with the time teller trying to learn time. He offered the time teller a huge reward if he agrees. The time teller indeed found this offer appealing and agreed. The wealthy man went with his men and instructed them to spend the first day recording each and every second of the day. On the second day,they were to observe the movements and patterns of time. In other words; when do seconds tick along and wat makes them tick, and when do minutes do the same,and hours,etc...
At the end of day three,the wealthy man had spent all his wealth on the time telling course! But,as agreed,he and his men knew how time works.
They took their records of time and created a machine that could point to the right time on the time record sheet. This took many years because they needed to perfect the art. This was even more difficult as the now 'former wealthy man' only had the help of his brothers and sisters and they had become very poor.
In this time,the time teller continued to serve his village and foreigners who came to discover time. This made him the wealthiest man in the world.
The click-clock...
Then the first time telling machine was released and it was named The Click-Clock because of the loud click-clock sounds that the machine made. The wealthy man was wealthy again! He was pleased because his wealth was multiplied to even more than he ever had before. The second-richest man,the time teller, owned only a fraction of what the click-clock maker now owned and he was losing customers to the Click-Clock...
Lol,u still reading or u jumped straight to the end?
Well... The story demonstrates entrepreneurship and the associated risk-taking and investment savvy.
But that's not wat i was thinking about. I was thinking of the difference btwn leadership styles: time telling leaders v/s clock making leaders. I'd like to be a clock-maker kind of leader. I don't want to just tell you what time it is all the time. I want u also to be able to tell the time and for us to create more clocks that can tell the time when we're not there. I don't want to always show you where we turn next,I want to put up a map of the maze (vision/principles) so that you can also know wat guides my thinking all the time.I'd like you to know about business,even if u might not decide to become a business person. I want you to also know about careers and to choose the most fulfilling career for YOU,just like I have for myself. I also would like you to not have to work just because you need the money. I would like you to know about investments & how to make money just like I'd like to. I'd like to not struggle with money...
I'd like you to be your own person, have your own desires, make your own mistakes, learn your own lessons, and achieve your own victories.
Hope you liked it. It was adapted from a story in a business book, Bulit to last, by Jerry Porras and Jim Collins
