The farmer grew award-winning corn each year. A reporter discovered that the farmer shared his best seed corn with his neighbors. The farmer explained that wind can carry pollen between fields, so if his neighbors grow inferior corn, it could degrade the quality of his own crop over time. Therefore, it is in the farmer's interest to help his neighbors improve their corn as well to ensure the ongoing success of his own field. The document advocates that success is often a collective process, so sharing good practices and knowledge with others can help both them and oneself succeed.

1. It’s a fact and we must learn from it..

2. Success of a farmer

3. There was a farmer who grew superior quality, award-winning
corn in his farm. Each year, he entered his corn in the state fair
where it won honours and prizes.

4. One year a newspaper reporter interviewed him and learned
something interesting about how he grew his corn. The
reporter discovered that the farmer shared his seed corn with
his neighbours.

5. "How can you afford to share your best seed corn with your
neighbours when they are entering corn in the competition
with yours each year?" The reporter asked. "Why brother?"

6. The farmer replied, "Didn't you know? The wind picks up pollen grains from
the ripening corn and swirls it from field to field. If my neighbours grow
inferior, sub-standard and poor quality corn, cross-pollination will steadily
degrade the quality of my corn. If I have to grow good corn, I must help my
neighbours to grow good corns too. "

7. The farmer gave a superb insight into the connectedness of life.
His corn cannot improve unless his neighbours' corn also
improves. So it is in the other dimensions and areas of life!

8. Those who choose to be in harmony must help their neighbours and
colleagues to be at peace. Those who choose to live well must help
others live well too. The value of a life is measured by the lives it
touches...

9. Success does not happen in isolation; it is most often a
participatory and collective process. So share the good
practices, ideas and new knowledge with your family,
friends, team members and neighbours and all.

10. As they say:
"Success breeds Success."
Ten ideas are good
but one idea put in to Practice is better still.