Responsibility and Collaborations - 4 Daughter-in-laws

Responsibility and Collaborations

Once there was a family of Mother, Father their 4 sons and the 4 daughter-in laws all living together.
All 4 Daughter-in laws were good but there was always quarrel, whose responsibilities is do to what.
One day the Mother-in law decided to end this problem by assigning proper responsibility
.So She called all 4 of them and Said:
I know you are all very good and you don't shy from responsibilities; but since the responsibilities is not clear, you have misunderstanding. Lets now define the responsibilities.
One of you will – Prepare the food
2nd one – will arrange the dining.
3rd one – will serve the food.
4th one – will clean the utensils and dining
When each one of you finished your job you will announce the next person will do the next job.
And every week we will rotate this responsibilities.
All of them said it is good and agreed.
The Next day :
The first Daughter in law prepared the food and when she finished she informed “Food is prepared”
The second Daughter in law arranged the food in the table and announced, “the food is arranged in table and every body come to eat”.
The 3rd Daughter in law started serving the food and she announced-” the food is served”.
The 4th Daughter in law collected all the plates and utensils from the table and cleaned them and said “ The utensils and dining is cleared”.

The Mother-in law was dumb stuck.

Though all of them performed their duties and responsibilities, then end result was no one ate anything and the food was a complete waste.

Moral – It is not only the responsibilities but also good collaboration is very important to makes things work.