I had the privilege of hearing the water bucket story several times over the years. The absolute best was my boss telling one of my coworkers this story in front of his boss. My coworker told my boss he had the story all wrong. It is actual a big bucket, but it is only half full of water. If everyone in the buck puts their hand in the bucket, the water over flows, and the overflow is company profit. So if everyone contributes by putting a hand in, the company makes good profit. If a few decide to pull their hand out, or only put the tips of their fingers in, profit is hard to come by. Sometimes others have to put both hands in the bucket to get water to overflow (profit). Someone quits, and most won't notice, but somewhere, somehow at least one other person has to put 2 hands in the bucket, at least until another new person can be hired and trained to the point where his work will be a real contribution, that is, another hand in the bucket. It takes a good supervisor and a good team to put enough hands in the bucket. I just kept working and listening. Unfortunately, my boss and his boss walked away without saying much. I walked away too, a couple months later, took my tools with me and went to work for someone who better understood teamwork.
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Today's Featured Article - Listening to Your Tractor - by Curtis Von Fange. Years ago there was a TV show about a talking car. Unless you are from another planet, physically or otherwise, I don’t think our internal combustion buddies will talk and tell us their problems. But, on the other hand, there is a secret language that our mechanical companions readily do speak. It is an interesting form of communication that involves all the senses of the listener. In this series we are going to investigate and learn the basic rudimentary skills of understanding this lingo.
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