“If everyone helps to hold up the sky, then one person does not become tired.”

 

If I have to explain the title of this post, then you have to view the below video.

The story goes like this...

A young monk lives a simple life in a temple on top of a hill. He has one daily task of hauling two buckets of water up the hill. Another monk arrives the temple and they start sharing the responsibility.In order to divide the load, they both figure out a way so that the pole could be carried by both of them but the carry pole could then be used for carrying only one bucket. They are still content. A third monk arrives and goes to fetch the water. He gets so exhausted in the task that he drinks all the water by himself. So he evades from the task. Eventually everyone starts expecting the other person to take on the chore. Consequently, no one fetches water though everybody is thirsty. At night, a rat comes to scrounge and then knocks the candle-holder, leading to a devastating fire in the temple. The desperate situation makes the three monks finally unite together and make a concerted effort to put out the fire. They take the help of the pulley and divide the work amongst all three of them according to their capabilities. Since then they understand the old saying "unity is strength" and begin to live a harmonious life. The temple never lacks water again. 

Below are the three possible solutions for this.

• Each of the monk carrying two buckets of water.
• Two monks sharing one bucket of water.
• Scientific way
• Two monks carrying three buckets of water.

And it goes without explanation that the scientific way is the most efficient one for reasons like Work is evenly distributed,No one is overloaded and the processes are well defined.

Learnings from the story

1.      Team Work enhances the efficiency

Team work plays the key role in the organization. It helps to do the task efficiently and effectively. It helps in proper coordination among the employees. Also if the work is done in the team, it can be divided as per the skills of the employees so that it can be finished faster. It’s the responsibility of the Manager to coordinate with all the team members.

2. Disputes in an Organisation

However Organised your team is, it is impossible to be without disputes.Thinkings do clash in a high profile work environment.It is impossible for individuals for to think in the same way while working in a team.But it is also up to the individuals what are the measures they are taking to overcome it.At any cost, it should not affect the objectives of the organisation.I would like to sight my personal experience here.When I was working in Wipro, there was a situation when both myself and my manager lost our cool and shouted at each other very badly.Both of us could have acted assertively in that situation.But unfortunately situation got better of us.Though Eventually things eased out after couple of meetings, it was rather a ugly fight.Both of us had our own perception about things.

3.      Scientific Measures to solve the problem

For any problem if we use scientific measures to solve it, the quality of the solution would always be better.As in this case, three monks would never have a fight for bringing water and that scientific measure helped them to understand the importance of team work.And eventually their burden of work also got reduced.

4.Synergy

Always,

1+1>2

If the work is shared among the people, different ideas do come in and will help us to reach our goal at the earliest.

"United, we Stand

Divided you fall"

Hope this would have given all the readers the importance of team work.Meet you in my next blog....