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He ordered the financial director to bring him to the front. Jim was terrified. He thought, "The CEO knows I'm a failure! Maybe he will have me fired!"
When Jim got to the front, the CEO asked him what had happened to his seed - Jim told him the story. The CEO asked everyone to sit down except Jim. He looked at Jim, and then announced to the young executives, "Behold your next Chief Executive Officer! His name is Jim!" Jim couldn't believe it. He couldn't even grow his seed?
"How could he be the new CEO?" the others said.
Then the CEO said, "One year ago today, I gave everyone in this room a seed. I told you to take the seed, plant it, water it and bring it back to me today. But I gave you all boiled seeds; they were dead - it was not possible for them to grow. All of you, except Jim, have brought me trees and plants and flowers. When you found that the seed would not grow, you substituted another seed for the one I gave you. Jim was the only one with the courage and honesty to bring me a pot with my seed in it. Therefore, he is the one who will be the new Chief Executive Officer!"
( WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND His name was Fleming, and he was a poor Scottish farmer. One day, while working in the field, he heard a cry for help coming from a nearby field. He dropped his tools and ran to the field. To his shock he found a small boy, terrified and in deep pain. He was hit by a passing truck and was lying on the field in a pool of blood.
Farmer Fleming saved the boy from what could have been a slow and terrifying death. The next day, a huge car came near the farmer's field. An elegantly dressed nobleman stepped out and introduced himself as the father of the boy farmer Fleming had saved.
"You saved my son's life. I want to repay you," said the nobleman.
No, I can't accept payment for what I did, the farmer replied waving off the offer. At that moment, the farmer's own son came to the field.
'Is that your son?' the nobleman asked. 'Yes, the farmer replied proudly.
I'll make you a deal. Let me provide him with the level of education my own son will enjoy. If your son is anything like his father, he'll no doubt grow to be a man we both will be proud of.
And that he did. Farmer Fleming's son attended the very best schools and in time, graduated from St. Mary's Hospital Medical School in London, and went on to become known throughout the world as the noted Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of Penicillin.
Years afterward, the same nobleman's son who was saved from the bog was stricken with pneumonia. What saved his life this time? Penicillin.
What was the name of the nobleman? Lord Randolph Churchill. What is his son's name? Sir Winston Churchill. Someone once said: What goes around comes around.
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