The turtle plodding on overtook him and soon finished the race.
Emerging as the undisputed champ.
The rabbit woke up and realized that he’d lost the race.
The Moral of the Story
The moral of the story is that slow and steady wins the race.
This a version of the story that we’ve all grown up with, but our vision of the story continues.
The rabbit was disappointed at losing the race and he did some thinking.
He realized that he’d lost the race only because he had been overconfident, careless and lax.
If he had not taken things for granted, there’s no way the turtle could have beaten him.
Another Race
So he challenged the turtle to another race.
The turtle agreed.
This time, the rabbit went all out and ran without stopping from start to finish.
He won by several miles.
The moral of the story?
Fast and consistent will always beat the slow and steady.
But the story doesn’t end there.
The turtle did some thinking this time, and realized that there’s no way he can beat the rabbit in a race the way it was currently formatted.
He thought for a while, and then challenged the rabbit to another race, but on a slightly different route.
The rabbit agreed.
The turtle and rabbit started off.
In keeping with his self- made commitment to be consistently fast, the rabbit took off and ran at top speed.
Until he came to a broad river.
The finishing line was a couple of kilometers on the other side of the river.
The rabbit sat there wondering what to do.
In the meantime the turtle trundled along, got into the river, swam to the opposite bank, continued walking and finished the race.
The moral of the story?
First identify your core competency and change the playing field to suit your core competency.
The story still hasn’t ended.
The turtle and rabbit, by the time, had become pretty good ends and they did some thinking together.
Both realized that the last race could have been run much better.
They started off, and this time the rabbit carried the turtle till the riverbank.
There, the turtle took over and swam across with the rabbit on his back.
On the opposite bank, the rabbit again carried the turtle and they reached the finishing line together.
Both the turtle and rabbit felt a greater sense of satisfaction than they’d felt earlier.
The moral of the story?
It’s good to be individual brilliant and to have strong core competencies.
But unless you’re able to work in a team and harness each other’s core competencies, you’ll always perform below par because there will always be situations at which you’ll do poorly and someone else does well.
Teamwork is mainly about situational leadership, letting the person with relevant core competency for a situation take leadership.
… And that is in the story.
The end.
Reference
- Santos, S. (n.d.). From Playroom to Boardroom: The Reboot Story of the Rabbit and Turtle.
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