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The ‘motivational’ story of the chicken and the pig

So we have a group meeting in the morning and are told that we need to be committed in our work and not just involved and our boss tells us this story from the CEO. There was a farm that had a chicken and a pig. The chicken had an idea and goes to the pig and says, “Hey Pig, since the farmer is always so nice to us, we should do something nice for him.” The pig says, “Ok, sure.” The chicken says, “We should make him breakfast. I'm thinking ham and eggs.” And then some explanation about how the chicken is involved, but it is the pig that is committed. So we should kill ourselves for our work? How many people did this story go through for it to somehow still make it down to the employee level?


So we have a group meeting in the morning and are told that we need to be committed in our work and not just involved and our boss tells us this story from the CEO.

There was a farm that had a chicken and a pig. The chicken had an idea and goes to the pig and says, “Hey Pig, since the farmer is always so nice to us, we should do something nice for him.”

The pig says, “Ok, sure.”

The chicken says, “We should make him breakfast. I'm thinking ham and eggs.”

And then some explanation about how the chicken is involved, but it is the pig that is committed. So we should kill ourselves for our work? How many people did this story go through for it to somehow still make it down to the employee level?

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