While many birds hide themselves at the time of a rainfall, eagle flies on top of the clouds. The majestic flying bird gives us an important management lesson to learn and implement. Eagle has a life span of 70 years but its talons, beak and feather can only support till its 40 years. It has to make a hard decision for its survival of another 30 years. Its beak bends and lose the sharpness, its talons fail to grab the prey, its feathers don't co-operate to fly high. Either it has to pass through a painful process to get a rebirth or die in 40 years by starving for the food. Eagle chooses to stay away for 5 months from its usual activities (career break) and fly to the top of the mountain.
It plucks its old feather and wait for the new one to grow, it plucks its own talons to find a new one grow and at last, it breaks its sharp less beak to get a new beak that hunts its prey. Now, it has to wait for 5 months to heal the wound and find the new one growing. In this span of 5 crucial months, it eats minimal and what is available on top of the mountain. After the rebirth, eagle starts its beautiful flight to find its prey and live for another 30 years without any problem.
Few lessons we have to learn from the eagle's rebirth:-
Why is a change needed?
If a professional joins in a domain / industry at the young age, should he / she work in the same till the retirement?
Would our present skills help us till retirement or survival?
When there are more professionals, experts coming into our industry, we will face threat. How would we handle it?
What should we do in our career break? Should we predict the career break like the eagle did?
How do we burn our resources in our career break to survive?
How important for us to invest on the new skills? Don't wait for the employer to invest on your skill enrichment. If so, the employer would expect something more from you. Are you ready for it?
When the birds fly below the clouds, how did eagle fly on a higher altitude to escape from the disaster?
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