The Lion, the Leopard and the Wolves
Once, there was a lion who gave the job of watching over 10 wolves to a leopard. Leopard started his day distributing the meat rations into 11 portion. The wolves were unhappy at the size of the portion and attacked him. A single leopard could not fight against 10 wolves and he had no choice but to surrender his portion of meat and tendered his resignation to Lion. Lion stopped Leopard, and told him to observe his management techniques. The next day, Lion divided the meat into 11 portions of different sizes. He took the largest one, and threw the rest to the wolves, telling them, "Divide them according to who deserves it more." The wolves started fighting among themselves for the meat, no longer thinking of how that piece of meat was smaller than what they got in total in the past. Leopard was amazed and asked, "What kind of management technique is that?" Lion smiled and replied, "This is called payment by performance." The second day, Lion div