The Goose that laid the Golden Egg, how it applies to business
As an entrepreneur using his Mac I can find many ways of learning new ideas. In the story about the Goose that laid the Golden Egg I find that I can apply it toward business.
As the story goes, the goose that lays the golden egg the owners get too greedy and decide to kill it to get at the gold, like right now. Problem is, they killed the opportunity for the goose to keep producing the golden eggs, and therefore their future chance of every getting any more gold.
The greed of those that want to get at the gold before “it’s time” and kill the goose is the moral of the story, but here are two other sides to the story.
First, but what about the owners that are so enamored with the golden egg they don’t see the source of the golden egg? The goose! They go spend the money from the egg on their immediate needs and wants and actually forget about the goose. Have you ever seen someone act like this? Impulsive with the gold. These are gold-getters.
Last, and the best solution, what about another goose owner that does NOT kill the goose, but keeps earning a living from the goose as it lays the eggs? These owners reap at the level of production that goose can produce. They feed it and take care of it and allow the goose to produce at it’s pace. No more, no less than the goose can. Smart business owners here. These are gold reapers.
I recently had someone ask me for a FREE copy of my book How to Start a Business: Mac Version so they could start a business with their Mac. I ask them that if they could find three people that will buy my book I’d give them a copy of my book as a commission for their work. They balked at this!
As I have seen in the past, if I had given them a free copy some would walk off with nary a “Thank You” or a positive response of any sort to someone’s generosity. You can see this in the “entitlement” or “I want something for nothing” crowd. They’d take the golden egg and vamoose. They’d forget about the goose that lays the golden egg completely.
You see this when you help others and don’t receive anything “in kind” back. Not that I’m expecting it, but it says a lot about the type of business people they are. Just watch for those that are gold-getters, they may not be the best ones to hang around with.
These are not business people, they’re freeloaders.
How do you see this story playing out in your world?
