Birds see the world from up high. They scan the landscape and look at the big picture.
Frogs are close to the ground. They play in the mud, finding diamonds amongst the details.
Both are great thinkers who see the world in different ways.
In business, the birds set the direction based on the distance they can see, and the frogs to uncover details and ensure that the strategies are grounded.
When they’re together the birds mustn’t peck at the frogs and the frogs mustn’t hide the diamonds from the birds.
On extremely rare occasion, the world sights a frogbird, like a Steve Jobs, Elon Musk or Bill Gates (Gates may be the frog king), but most of the time a business needs both birds and frogs to operate effectively.
Analogy borrowed from Birds and Frogs in Physics by Ashutosh Jogalekar