If You Give A Mouse A Cookie
If You Give A Mouse A Cookie Moral Lesson
The narrative is quite straightforward: a young boy offers a cookie to a mouse. Following this gesture, the mouse requests milk to accompany the cookie, a straw for the milk, and a napkin for tidying up. This series of requests leads to the mouse trimming his whiskers, cleaning the house, creating a picture to display on the refrigerator, and ultimately returning to the desire for a glass of milk.
The story concludes with the possibility of another cookie, thus initiating the entire cycle once more, as illustrated by an adorable board game featured on the final page.
- Lession 1: A lesson in systems thinking, enterprise interconnectivity and the danger of the second and third order consequences of seemingly innocuous decisions.
- Lession 2: A case study on the importance of strategy in preventing reactionary moves and enabling quality decision making.
- Lession 3: A highlight on the detrimental effects of a leadership vacuum, and a clear, shared north star leadership vision that guide others’ actions as aligned to that shared goal.