The Goose and the Golden Egg

Vans Ngassa
Sep 1, 2018 · 2 min read

This fable is the story of a poor farmer who one day discovers in the nest of his a glittering golden egg. At first, he thinks it must some kind of trick but as he starts to throw the egg aside, he has second thoughts and takes it in to appraised instead .

The egg is pure gold! The farmer can’t believe his good fortune. He becomes even more incredulous the following day when experience is repeated. Day after day, awakens to rush to the nest and find another golden egg.

He fabulously wealthy; it all seems too good to true. But with his increasing wealth comes with greed and impatience. Unable to wait day after day for the golden eggs, the farmer decides he will kill the goose and get them all at once. But when he kills goose, he finds it empty .

There are no golden eggs — and now there is no way to get any more. The
farmer has destroyed the goose that produced them.

But as the story shows, true effectiveness is a function of two things: what is produced (the golden eggs) and the producing or capacity to produce (the goose).

If you adopt a pattern of life that focuses on golden eggs and neglects the goose, you will be without the asset that produces golden eggs. On the other hand, if you only take care of the goose with no aim toward the golden eggs, you won’t have the wherewithal to feed yourself or the effectiveness lies in the balance

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