Sharing and building Solution Focused practice in organisations
Solution building (instead of problem solving ;)): King Akbar and the cord
Once upon a time Akbar, the King of India, wanted to prove the talent of his ministers. Up to their biggest surprise he stretched a cord in front of them and gave the task: 'Who of you can shorten this cord without cutting or
knotting it?'
The ministers were puzzled and tortured their brains. At last a very wise man
stood up, he stretched a longer cord next to the first. So he hasn’t cut it or hasn’t
tied a knot in it, but the cord became shorter!
King Akbar was highly impressed by his minister’s solution and used his wise
suggestions for other questions from then on.
I discovered this story in the book 'Von der Weisheit der Märchen' by Susanne Stöcklin-Meier, in an other german version you can read it here.
If any of the native engl.speakers feels like adjusting the language, I'll be very thankful.
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Permalink Reply by Hans-Peter Korn on
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Thank you, Kati, for providing this nice story!
And I also like the conclusion of this story I read in the German version:
"This cords stand for different versions of "truth". So: Don't cut or bend or tie the truth of a person. Lay aside your own truth. And let the others evaluate what of both versions of truth each of them will prefer...." -
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Permalink Reply by Andre Burki on
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and thank you Hans-Peter for this additional translation - I would have been to lazy to check the German version.
Kati you are a wonderful contributor with uplifting nice stories :-) THANK you too -
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