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20.04.2014 Feature Article

Are you here or there?,,,,,a HR message

Are you here or there?,,,,,a HR message
20.04.2014 LISTEN

'Right intentions to change' is essential and inevitable for every one working in the corporate. If one does not have the intentions for change, would continue to remain the same, repeating and reciting the same ballad, following the same ritual and practices.

Most of us do things purely based on our past learning obtained through our life. We simply repeat the same, in rest of our life. Unless one develops right intention to change, our actions, style and functioning will be only the rehearsal and repetition of the experience and knowledge what we have gained/gathered in the past.

Look at a turtle or crocodile. Both the reptile lays large number of eggs and covers them with soil. They do not incubate or guard the eggs. When the young ones emerge, the crocodile carry a few of them to water while others have to find their way but the turtle, interestingly never bother to see them or attend them at all.

The young turtle and crocodile when grow, they also do the same as their mother did. They also come near the shore or lake or river, lay eggs, cover them up and then move away. The young ones have to find their way.

Another example of nature is the lioness. The female lioness ferociously guards her cubs and also cares them well. If a powerful bachelor lion happens to see the cubs, would kill them mercilessly. The lioness has to watch the show/episode helplessly. The irony is that the lioness at the end has to accept the brutal murderer of her cubs – the bachelor lion, as her husband to conceive again.

If the cubs ever survive, they also do the same as what their mother had done to them.

In corporate also, most people behave and function based on their past learning and experience. Unknowingly they carry the old knowledge, experience and practice and only under its influence and guidance they perform. For crocodile, turtle or the lioness, since they work within the simple matrix of life, such 'repetitive ritual' is fine. But the corporate people have to question whether they also behave the same way and if so, must develop right intentions to change them.

If a subordinate had ever suffered at the hands of his or her boss in the past, they do behave more or less the same way to their subordinates when they become the boss. The exhibition of such strange behaviour is not an intentional one but it follows most people like their shadow how it follows them. Let shadow follows you and not you follow your shadow.

It not, knowing or be aware of the above would help one but one has to have the right 'intentions' to question and change such practices and only then they could become 'really and truly' different from what they are.

Dr S Ranganathan, ClinRise Derma Pvt., Ltd., Chennai

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