Yet another story of the Shang Wars . The battle had raged hard the past week, with plenty of deaths on both sides. The Generalissimo had fought hard, and repelled the enemy. He quickly sent reports to the capital of the situation, and was taking a nap when the reports from the capital came in. The Aide-de-Camp could see the frowns on his face as he read the report. The Generalissimo sighed and passed the letter to the Aide-de-Camp. It was disturbing news. Apparently, one of the small towns had been depleted of all its men for the heavy fighting at the border. The women were upset after being separated from their men for so long, and had hung banners in the town protesting the fact. The General in charge of the municipality was a young General who had no experience in fighting battles, and so had been placed in charge of domestic defence. He had rounded the women up, put them on trial and would execute them all in a week’s time. The Aide-de-Camp understood the problem immediately. An ...
Another story from the Mistress's Child series. The entire household was abuzz with the news – the Businessman had proclaimed that he welcomed feedback on the running of the business from the entire household. This was what the Mistress’s Child had been waiting all along. She had seen so many problems with the household as she grew up, and had learnt so much during her years of helping to run the family business. She set about drafting down the many ideas she had, to show to her father. Her Butler had seen her write out the words painstakingly upon the parchment, and was worried. “Little Mistress, don’t you think you should get your elder brother to say something? I did not hear anything from the other household of him saying anything to your father.” “Oh Alfred, Alfred, you are just so full of worries! I know my father has never asked for any ideas from us in his whole life as a businessman, but we can trust him. Don’t worry!” She smiled at her Butler. She looked very pretty when...
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...
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