Darwin said it and let’s face it : humans must’ve evolved from monkeys. They observed, mimicked, iterated, and adapted—faster than most boardrooms today.
In today’s corporate corridors, where change is constant and irrelevance is just one unlearned skill away, the inability to upgrade isn’t a delay—it’s a corporate suicide note.
Let’s not forget – The jungle doesn’t care about your experience—it respects your relevance.
So, evolve. Learn. Unlearn. Relearn. Be curious. Be adaptive. Be agile.
Once upon a time in a village, a cap-seller fell asleep under a tree. A bunch of monkeys saw the unattended caps and—being true to their monkey nature—stole them all. The man woke up, panicked, and in frustration threw his own cap on the ground. The monkeys copied him and threw theirs too. Brilliant!
But wait—the story doesn’t end there.
Years rolled on, and the cap-selling legacy was passed down to the next generation. The young, ambitious heir—armed with inherited wisdom, entered the family business. One sunny afternoon, just like his father had done for years, he lay under the same tree, at the same time, with the same caps.
And predictably, the monkeys did what monkeys do—they stole all the caps.
Confident in his “proven family trick,” the young cap-seller threw his cap to the ground, waiting for history to repeat itself.
But this time, the lead monkey climbed down, picked up the cap, adjusted it on his head, and said:
“You think you’re the only one who learned from your father? We’ve been upgrading too. Our dads taught us not to fall for old tricks.”
Ask yourself:
- Are you still throwing the same old solutions at new-age problems?
- Are you still expecting your team to follow your playbook when the game has changed?
- Are you managing by memory or by metrics?
Because here’s the punchline:
The monkey who once copied your cap tricks might now be building the next AI startup.
