Corporate insight from redwood trees

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Do the corporate worlds know anything about the tallest tree on earth – the ‘redwood’ that live in the foggy costal belt of Northern California?   The tree is indeed a very amazing and mind boggling species to the biologists all over the world.  Always the biologists used to wonder how such a tall tree gets the continuous supply water and minerals from root to the terminal region. 

 

Transport of water by the roots and reaching them to every parts of the plant will definitely be difficult for any tall trees in general.  But the amazing growth in girth and height of the redwood trees never tell such sad story.  Water must be sufficiently reaching every part of the tree and meeting their absolute need otherwise no tree can grow so big like redwood. 

 

The water transport system in Californian redwood tree, besides supporting the growth of the tree is also conveying an important management message to the corporate world. 

 

The redwood trees follow two separate approaches for meeting their water requirement.  The foliages directly absorb moisture from the atmosphere.  Because of the large crown cover, greater amount of moisture, the foliage of the tree could trap and gather directly from the atmosphere.

 

The second approach is very interesting.  As and when the tree transpires or looses water from the foliage, create pressure to facilitate the ascent of sap (movement of water from root to shoot) and reaching the same to all parts of the tree.   The continuous loss of water continuously creates continuous pressure and thereby water moves upward from the roots. 

 

The management message to be learned by the corporate from the above is that ‘only when there is a loss, gain is possible’.    The trees loose water through transpiration and that creates pressure to replenish it passively.  If such pressure were not there, the roots of redwood trees would have struggled a lot to conduct the water upward reaching every part.  Further, the redwood trees would not have been the tallest trees on earth.   When every part of the plant is thirsty for water, they become receptive and thereby pulling water from roots. 

 

Loss is only to gain and not to loose something, forever.  The corporate people should apply their mind and should gain many things from the losses that they suffer in the corporate. 

 

No loss can ever make a person looser if they understand the smart strategy of the Californian redwood trees.  They in fact, loose water to gain and then grow.  That is how they are the tallest tree on earth.

 

When one get amazed at seeing the tallest redwood hereafter must also learn the important management message they convey. 

 

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

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