The cuttle fish behaviour, its definition and relevance, the corporate leaders must understand......
Cuttle fish is a marine animal, related to octopus and squids. The cuttle fish display the most astonishing behaviour than any other animal in the world. These animals can quickly change their colour and gender appearance to deal the situation.
Such ability has been seen in many other animals also. However, the cuttle fishes completely differ from all other animals. The astonishing feature of the cuttle fish is that they can change the colour and appearance of their body simultaneously i.e., one side looks like male and other side like female.
They position themselves accordingly and show the male side of their body to attract/court the female and the female side to the male cuttle fishes to avoid the threat and competition from other male members. Simultaneously they exhibit ‘dualism’ and this behaviour is very rare in the animal world.
Scientific studies have proven the simultaneous existence of ‘dualism’ in cuttle fish. The question to be answered is whether only the cuttle fishes alone displays dualistic traits? Many corporate people do exhibit such extraordinary trait in the corporate world.
Many people do speak to their bosses praising their leadership qualities and simultaneously they do describe their bosses as they are totally ‘unwise’ and lack leadership vision.
It is not true that only the subordinates alone behave so. Many bosses also praise their subordinates in public meetings and call them stupid and useless in private encounters. How to map the behaviour of such people? They exhibit equal halves of two opposite traits at the same time. Interestingly, both the traits they display only to meet their self gratification exactly like a cuttle fish in the ocean. Cuttle fish has to attract the female and ward off the males. Similarly these people also have to impress two different groups of people.
When a boss praises the subordinates in the meetings, such bosses could easily build an image that they are very motivating, supporting and mentoring type. When they deal the subordinates in private, to establish their authority and supremacy, they behave arrogantly and describe the people badly.
The larger doubt is whether these people are carrying some ‘genetic’ material of the cuttle fish and hence behave so? Only the HR function can find an answer to the above question.
The cuttle fish display dualism only for its biologic purpose and that is how the nature has limited its dualism trait. But in the case of corporate man, dualism appears to be the way of life in most corporate and ‘the philosophy’ of many successful leaders.
Dr S Ranganathan, ClinRise Derma Pvt., Ltd., Chennai
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