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One worker, Jim, receives no growth and feels ashamed, but ultimately brings his empty pot honestly to the meeting. The leader reveals he boiled the seeds first, so the outcomes show integrity, courage, and willingness to be truthful. The story closes with the principle that people cannot be deceived and will ultimately receive what they plant.","Literacy International: Of Plants and An Empty Pot  \nCopyright © 2018 Literacy International [info@LiteracyInternational.net](info@LiteracyInternational.net)  \nEnglish Personal Development  \nLiteracy International: Of Plants and An Empty Pot  \nCopyright © 2018 Literacy International [info@LiteracyInternational.net](info@LiteracyInternational.net)  \nEnglish  \nCopyright © 2018, Literacy International  \n[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)  \nYou are free to make commercial use of this work. You may adapt and add to this work, but you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one. You must keep the copyright and credits for authors, illustrators, etc.  \nThe leader of a large company was getting old. He realized that he would soon have to leave. He wanted to turn over his business to the very best person.  \nHe called all his workers together.“I must choose oneof you to be in my place,” he told them. He didn’t say anything about relatives or younger workers. Instead he said,“I’m going to give each of you a special seed.”  \n\"Please plant the seed. Use the best soil and compost that you can find. Then in a year, bring me what you have. I will look at your plants and choose the next leader from the best plant.”  \nOne man went home and told his wife about it. His name was Jim. They were excited. They got a pot, some soil and some compost. They planted their seed and watched it every day. But nothing happened. After three weeks, some of the other men began to talk about the plants they had. Jim had nothing.  \nAfter six weeks Jim still had nothing but a pot. He putin a little water and fertilizer every day. He waited.  \nSix months passed. Jim decided that he had killed his seed somehow. There was no sign of life. The other men had trees and beautiful plants. He told them nothing about his pot because he was ashamed. The pot was still empty.  \nSix months after that, the big meeting came. Jim didn’t want to take his empty pot there. He felt a bit sick. His wife said,“Be honest. Take your pot and go.”  \nJim did. He sat in a comer. The other men had beautiful plants. Some of them laughed at Jim’s empty pot. Others felt sorry for him.  \nThe leader came in and saw all the plants. Then he found Jim and called him to the front of the room. Jim was very frightened.“I haven’t done anything,” he thought.“I’ll lose my job.” But he told his boss just what had happened.  \nThe other men said,“Jim has an empty pot. He won’t make our company grow either. How can he be our big man? Our company will fail.”  \n“A year ago,” the leader said,“I gave seeds to everybody. But I had boiled them first. There was noway they could grow. The seeds were dead.”  \n“I gave a seed to each of you. After a while,” he said,“you saw that nothing was going to grow. So you went out and bought other seeds to plant. You wanted to fool me.”  \n“Jim didn’t hide anything. He simply showed me what he had. He was the one with courage. He was honest. Jim is the new leader of our company.”  \n* * * * * *  \n“Do not be fooled. You cannot fool God. 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