This is a great story from "The Bean Trees" by Barbara Kingsolver.  I definitely think the moral can be applied to businesses as well as heaven and hell.

"If you go to visit hell, you will see a room like a kitchen.  There is a pot of delicious stew on the table, with the most delicate aroma you can imagine.  All around, people sit [ at the table].  Only they are dying of starvation.  they are jibbering and jabbering, but they cannot get a bite of this wonderful stew God has made for them.  They are starving because they only have spoons with very long handles.  As long as [the mop].  With these ridiculous, terrible spoons, the people in hell can reach into the pot but they cannot put the food in their mouths.  Oh, how hungry they are!  Oh, how they swear and curse each other!

Now, you can go and visit heaven.  And guess what?  You see a room like the first one, the same table, the same pot of stew, the same spoons as long as a sponge mop.  But these people are all happy and fat....  Perfectly, magnificently, well - fed, and very happy.  Why do you think?  

[It is because one takes the spoon so that the other can eat.]" 

Now, go support each other in business so that everyone can succeed.

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