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TeamWork -Share-Exprees-Explore
Posted Date:
04 Jun 2008
Total Responses:
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Posted By: mohan Member Level: Gold Points: 1
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Hi dudes,
This thread is about the Teamwork and Teamwork fable.
Tortoise And Hare Inspirational Teamwork Story
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This is an age old fable of the tortoise and hare race. Everyone knows who won the race or do you? Well, recently I heard a new version of this story with a new twist. Read this inspirational teamwork story with lessons in teamwork from an age old fable.
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1. Once upon a time a tortoise and a hare had an argument about who was faster. They decided to settle the argument with a race. The tortoise and hare both agreed on a route and started off the race. 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. He sat under the tree and soon fell asleep. The tortoise plodding on overtook him and soon finished the race, emerging as the undisputed champ. The hare woke up and realized that he'd lost the race.
The moral of the story is that slow and steady wins the race. This is the version of the story that we've all grown up with.
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2. But then recently, someone told me a more interesting version of this tortoise and hare story. It continues.
The hare was disappointed at losing the race and he did some soul-searching. 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 tortoise could have beaten him. So he challenged the tortoise to another race. The tortoise agreed.
This time, the hare 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. If you have two people in your organization, 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 organizational ladder faster than the slow, methodical chap.
It's good to be slow and steady; but it's better to be fast and reliable.
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3. But the story doesn't end here. The tortoise did some thinking this time, and realized that there's no way he can beat the hare in a race the way it was currently formatted. He thought for a while, and then challenged the hare to another race, but on a slightly different route. The hare agreed. The tortoise and hare started off. In keeping 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. The finishing line was a couple of kilometers on the other side of the river.
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.
The moral of the story? First identify your core competency and then change the playing field to suit your core competency.
In an organization, if you are a good speaker, make sure you create opportunities to give presentations that enable the senior management to notice you.
If your strength is analysis, make sure you 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.
The story still hasn't ended.
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4. The tortoise and hare, by this time, had become pretty good friends and they did some thinking together. Both realized that the last race could have been run much better. So the tortoise and hare decided to do the last race again, but to run as a team this time.
They started off, and this time the hare carried the tortoise till the riverbank. There, the tortoise took over and swam across with the hare on his back. On the opposite bank, the hare again carried the tortoise and they reached the finishing line together. Both the tortoise and hare felt a greater sense of satisfaction than they'd felt earlier.
The moral of the story? It's good to be individually 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 the relevant core competency for a situation take leadership.
There are more lessons to be learnt from this inspirational teamwork story.
Note that neither the tortoise and hare gave up after failures. The hare decided to work harder and put in more effort after his failure.
The tortoise changed his strategy because 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. Sometimes it is appropriate to change strategy and try something different. And sometimes it is appropriate to do both.
The tortoise and hare also learnt another vital lesson in teamwork. When we stop competing against a rival and instead start competing against the situation, we perform far better.
When Roberto Goizueta took over as CEO of Coca-Cola in the 1980s, he was faced with intense competition from Pepsi that was eating into Coke's growth. His executives were Pepsi-focused and intent on increasing market share 0.1 per cent a time.
Goizueta decided to stop competing against Pepsi and instead compete against the situation of 0.1 per cent growth.
He asked his executives what was the average 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. The competition wasn't Pepsi. It was the water, 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.
To this end, Coke put up vending machines at every street corner. Sales took a quantum jump and Pepsi has never quite caught up since.
To sum up, the story of the hare and tortoise teaches us many things. Chief among them 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.
Share your feelings and the stories that you have.
SHARE.Express.Explore Your Self.
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| Author: b.thirumaya prabhu 04 Jun 2008 | Member Level: Gold | Rating:  Points: 2 | nice thinking
| | Author: b.thirumaya prabhu 04 Jun 2008 | Member Level: Gold | Rating: Points: 2 | nice thinking
| | Author: mohan 04 Jun 2008 | Member Level: Gold | Rating: Points: 2 | Hey Dudes,
You can share your inforamation which you have experienced or virtual incidents or any movie incidents.
| | Author: hari 04 Jun 2008 | Member Level: Silver | Rating: Points: 2 | Yes,
I Like to share the information where we can see the teamwork,
Here it is..
Every one know the Hollywood movie " 300 " .
Where we can see the Teamwork and the motivation by the King "Leonidis" to the great warriors.
here are some dialogues:
"I fight for freedom! I'd rather die in honor then live in shame!"
"Fight for the glory,die for the glory"-Where it sounds much in the theatre with express i was much inspried with these dialogues.
| | Author: krishna 04 Jun 2008 | Member Level: Silver | Rating: Points: 2 | Wow.,Even I like the character of hitler.
As a king ..
| | Author: mohan 04 Jun 2008 | Member Level: Gold | Rating: Points: 2 | one incident i like to share with u all guys.
When i am at the age of 18 , many of my relatives are educated and they always make me to prepare for your exams.and they will tell me what will be the future if you not prepare for the exams.
They mould me as a pot from the mud.
they motivated me in such a way that what i want to be!
| | Author: srinivas 04 Jun 2008 | Member Level: Gold | Rating: Points: 2 | Heavy content if make it small pieces easy to read..
| | Author: srinivas 04 Jun 2008 | Member Level: Gold | Rating: Points: 2 | Expecting the Team for this kind of Events and Services:
Need of Team Work
| | Author: srinivas 04 Jun 2008 | Member Level: Gold | Rating: Points: 2 | Power of Team Work To Share the Thoughts,Express ,and Explore about it.
Power of Team Work will reduce the Dangerous deseases..
| | Author: srinivas 04 Jun 2008 | Member Level: Gold | Rating: Points: 3 | Team Work --Share --Express--Explore New EnterPrenuers..
Power of the Young Team Thoughts..becomes the New Entrants..in the business
http://www.indiastudychannel.com/forum/14144-Open-Source-Meetings-In-Twincities.aspx
http://www.twincling.org/node/275
| | Author: mohan 04 Jun 2008 | Member Level: Gold | Rating: Points: 2 | thank for the information dude.
| | Author: mohan 07 Jun 2008 | Member Level: Gold | Rating: Points: 2 | The one more movie i like to add up is:
the movie called " CHAK DE INDIA"
Where the managing skills are explored well.
and this stroy as been the one of the case study in Campus too.
So ou can expect the quality of the movie.
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