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30.06.2014 Feature Article

Fear not dear corporate bosses

Fear not dear corporate bosses
30.06.2014 LISTEN

To make great accomplishments and achievements, the corporate need great team. Only great team can make such wonder. The corporate must first understand about the definition of a great team and great accomplishment only then the spirit and essence of nature, the corporate can fully imbibe.

It is estimated that a single bee hive will have about 50,000 bees. Bees are eusocial insects. A single bee hive may store about 50 kg of honey. Imagine a worker bee is just 13-17 mm in length and weigh less than 100 mg. Such small bees only collect and store such huge reserve of honey. Honeybees are said to make about ten million trips to collect nectar sufficient to convert 450 g of honey. During the trip of ten million times, the bees cover nearly 90 km distance in a single day. Further, if we break down the task to individual bee level, a single bee must visit about 4000 flowers to make one tablespoon of honey.

Is there any corporate on earth work with such precision and perfection in their task? If we look at a bee hive from the point of view of how the bees work as team, how big is their task, how they understand and get inspired by the task, how they make such an accomplishment and finally the discipline they follow is incomparable.

Modern corporate must learn about the importance of having great team for achieving great task. Unfortunately, most of the corporate leaders love to divide people and that is how they run their survival. They cannot see people working as team. Even the HR functions in most corporate also never like people working in teams. Often they miss the task and gets into the team. The fear is that if the subordinates are ever allowed to form a formidable team, they often fear that their authority, wisdom and leadership style might get questioned. Therefore, people working in different teams only most corporate bosses prefer.

Imagine, if the queen bee ever fear the same way as most corporate bosses do, such great feat will not be possible to bees. They are highly task centric and team centric. They never seems to engage in petty politics, gossip, sycophancy or pull the rug from others feet.

The suggestion is not to have such perfect system in the corporate set up. It is too utopian to achieve. But the corporate leaders and the HR function must learn the message correctly.

When we learn about the amazing honey bees and their great feat, we should not forget to learn the simple management message they teach. Work as team, the team only can make great difference. Only the most fearless and passionate leader can encourage such team to happen in the corporate. You be the one such leader otherwise be a committed 'worker bee'.

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

Desire, Dream and Destination - Social Entrepreneur Forum

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