Corporate meetings... learn from the approach of a predator
Why the many amateur predatory animals fail to hunt in the beginning of their life? How the predatory animals can ensure and achieve success in hunting? Most of the predatory animals like lion, tiger, cheetah, leopard etc., always catch the neck of the prey animals while hunting.
It is easy to kill the prey by chocking or strangulation. This is well known to all the predatory animals. Whenever the predatory animal catches other parts of the body of the prey animal, the success of hunt is uncertain. Many occasions, the predatory animals have failed miserably when they had failed to catch the neck of the prey.
The corporate leaders must understand the important management message that only when the right 'intervention' is made, they can make the difference. Most occasions, the dialogue between the boss and subordinates encircles 'trivial' and 'diagonal' issues leading to conflicts and confusion.
Most of the bosses in general while doing performance appraisal of the subordinates, love to quote the ancient and archaic incidents about the subordinates. A few years ago, what stupidity the subordinate has done, the bosses would like to quote to belittle them. They leave the main issue, and divulge into other issues like how they can settle score with other.
The purpose of such meeting, both of them miss to respect and the entire exercise of appraisal may end up disastrously in most corporate. It is like how a lion or cheetah when fails to catch the neck of the prey looses the hunt, the right intervention and right issues are not discussed, the failure become certain.
The corporate employees have to learn a lot both from the success and failure of the predatory animal in its hunt. If it had succeeded, one needs to know how it had and if it fails, why it had failed. During all corporate meetings and discussions, a right issue and right intervention is inevitable.
Another important management message also the above example conveys to the corporate people. Only when the predatory animal catches the neck of the prey, it can quickly and meaningfully culminate its effort. If it allows the struggle of the prey animal to prolong, its struggle too would prolong.
If the boss wants to increase the suffering of his subordinates, in the process, he will be increasing his sufferings also.
Support and help received by one is always directly proportional to what one has offered or extended to others. If this important management message is not well understood by the corporate people, there will degradation or value erosion of the corporate culture.
Dr S Ranganathan, ClinRise Derma Pvt., Ltd., Chennai
Learn more from the following management books
1. Jungle wisdom for corporate management – lessons from the university of nature by Swami Sukhabodhananda and Dr S Ranganathan
2. Nature – The Entrepreneur by Dr S Ranganathan
Dr.S Ranganathan
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