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Brought to you by:Brought to you by:CAC Management Consultants InternationalCAC Management Consultants International
An international executive development consultancy in the Asia
Pacific Region, specialised in providing training to corporations
and outplacement consulting.
New Story of the Hare and TortoiseNew Story of the Hare and Tortoise
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Once upon a time a tortoise and a harehad an argument about who was faster.
They decided to settle the argument with
a race. They agreed on a route and started
off the race.
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The hare shot ahead and ran briskly for some time. Then seeing that he was far
ahead of the tortoise, he thought he'd sit
under a tree for some time and relax
before continuing the race.
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He sat under the tree and soon fellasleep. The tortoise plodding on overtook
him and soon finished the race, emerging
as the undisputed champ.
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The hare woke up and realised that he'dlost the race. The moral of the story is that
slow and steady wins the race.
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This is the version of the story that we'veall grown up with.
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But then recently, someone told me amore interesting version of this story. It
continues.
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The hare was disappointed at losing therace and he did some Defect Prevention
(Root Cause Analysis). He realised that
he'd lost the race only because he had
been overconfident, careless and lax.
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If he had not taken things for granted,there's no way the tortoise could have
beaten him. So he challenged the tortoise
to another race. The tortoise agreed.
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This time, the hare went all out and ranwithout stopping from start to finish. He
won by several miles.
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The moral of the story Fast andconsistent will always beat the slow and
steady.
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If you have two people in your organisation,one slow, methodical and reliable, and the other
fast and still reliable at what he does, the fast
and reliable chap will consistently climb the
organisational ladder faster than the slow,methodical chap.
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But the story doesn't end here. Thetortoise did some thinking this time, and
realised that there's no way he can beat
the hare in a race the way it was currently
formatted.
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He thought for a while, and thenchallenged the hare to another race, but
on a slightly different route.
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The hare agreed. They started off. Inkeeping with his self-made commitment to
be consistently fast, the hare took off and
ran at top speed until he came to a broad
river.
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The finishing line was a couple of kilometers on the other side of the river.
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The hare sat there wondering what to do.In the meantime the tortoise trundled
along, got into the river, swam to the
opposite bank, continued walking and
finished the race.
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The moral of the story? First identifyyour core competency and then change
the playing field to suit your core
competency.
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In an organisation, if you are a goodspeaker, make sure you create
opportunities to give presentations that
enable the senior management to notice
you.
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If your strength is analysis, make sureyou do some sort of research, make a
report and send it upstairs. Working to
your strengths will not only get you
noticed but will also create opportunities
for growth and advancement.
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The story still hasn't ended.
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The hare and the tortoise, by this time,had become pretty good friends and they
did some thinking together. Both realised
that the last race could have been run
much better.
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So they decided to do the last race again,but to run as a team this time.
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They started off, and this time the harecarried the tortoise till the riverbank.
There, the tortoise took over and swam
across with the hare on his back.
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On the opposite bank, the hare againcarried the tortoise and they reached the
finishing line together. They both felt a
greater sense of satisfaction than they'd
felt earlier.
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The moral of the story? It's good to beindividually 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.
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Teamwork is mainly about situationalleadership, letting the person with the
relevant core competency for a situation
take leadership.
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There are more lessons to be learnt fromthis story.
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Note that neither the hare nor the tortoisegave up after failures. The hare decided to
work harder and put in more effort after
his failure.
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The tortoise changed his strategybecause he was already working as hard
as he could. In life, when faced with
failure, sometimes it is appropriate to
work harder and put in more effort.
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Sometimes it is appropriate to changestrategy and try something different. And
sometimes it is appropriate to do both.
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The hare and the tortoise also learntanother vital lesson. When we stop
competing against a rival and instead
start competing against the situation, we
perform far better.
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When Roberto Goizueta took over asCEO of Coca-Cola in the 1980s, he was
faced with intense competition from Pepsi
that was eating into Coke's growth.
1980÷
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His executives were Pepsi-focused andintent on increasing market share 0.1 per
cent a time.
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Goizueta decided to stop competingagainst Pepsi and instead compete
against the situation of 0.1 per cent
growth.
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He asked his executives what was theaverage fluid intake of an American per
day? The answer was 14 ounces. What
was Coke's share of that? Two ounces.
Goizueta said Coke needed a larger share
of that market.
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The competition wasn't Pepsi. It was thewater, tea, coffee, milk and fruit juices that
went into the remaining 12 ounces. The
public should reach for a Coke whenever
they felt like drinking something.
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To this end, Coke put up vendingmachines at every street corner. Sales
took a quantum jump and Pepsi has never
quite caught up since.
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To sum up, the story of the hare and tortoise teaches us
many things.
Important lessons are:
that fast and consistent will always beat slow and
steady; work to your competencies;
pooling resources and working as a team will always
beat individual performers;
never give up when faced with failure;
and finally, compete against the situation. Not against
a rival.
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