Thanks for sharing this story, Lucas! I passed on your translation as well as the original right away! Mayke ___________________________________________ essence - Beratung, Training, Coaching Mayke Wagner Hanser 3 88279 Amtzell GERMANY
mayke.wag...@t-e-a-m.org Tel (+49) 07520 / 9232 02 visit us: <http://www.t-e-a-m.org> > Von: Lucas Gonzalez <lg...@yahoo.es> > Antworten an: OSLIST <osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu> > Datum: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 11:14:01 +0200 > An: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu > Betreff: [OSLIST] empty bucket, a story > > http://www.psp-sa.com/r2-02-1.htm (in Spanish) tells a story about an > empty bucket, which I translate badly: > > The Queen died when giving simultaneous birth to 4 sons and a daughter. > When the 5 of them were old enough, the King had to choose his > successor, so he asked them for projects on how to make the country > better. > Each of the 4 sons brought a project: Water for agriculture, Roads for > business, etc. The one daughter brought an empty bucket and said it > had as much value as the projects, which had no value until they would > get done. > So the King decided to give them 2 years to show if the projects were > any good, by implementing them. > After the 2 years, the 4 projects were showing success and the daughter > still brought an empty bucket. > She said "See how this empty bucket made the trick? Had we chosen one > project we would have had one project, and maybe see it completed. Had > we discussed which one was to be the best, we would have had nothing." > The four brothers kneeled down to the new Queen. > > ... > > ... > > ... > > ... > > ... > > ... > > At first I thought "Talk about opening the space!". At least it looks > a little like that! > > Now I'm not sure about (at least) one thing: does OS have an element of > (nice) competition to it? > > Could we have more stories? > > (The author of the story "La Canasta Vacía" is Dra. Ana Maria Aguado, > Argentina.) > > Lucas > > > > ______________________________________________ > Renovamos el Correo Yahoo!: ¡100 MB GRATIS! > Nuevos servicios, más seguridad > http://correo.yahoo.es > > * > * > ========================================================== > osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu > ------------------------------ > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, > view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: > http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html > > To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: > http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist > * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
