The breakfast parable

The fable is told a few different ways, but the message is the same.

In a breakfast of bacon and eggs, the chicken is involved but the pig is committed.

The flaw in the parable is that the collaboration always fails. There’s no breakfast because self-sacrifice is not on the table.

We often need collaboration. And we need commitment, too, but not as a casualty.

In healthy collaboration, those who carry the most risk have a say in the decisions that are made.

As for the chicken and the pig, they work together only when they can agree on a new recipe.