Food needs of a Platypus and Corporate

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Many leaders in the corporate aspire to employ platypus ‘people’ with a vision that they would lead and guide the corporate to great heights of success.  Mostly, the single man driven corporate is the one that loves to employ the ‘platypus’ people as they generally lacks people with vision in their organization.   In general, the employees in single men corporate are largely ‘talented sycophants’ than ‘visionaries’ as survival is possible in such organizations only by flattering the entrepreneur and his close associates.

 

What is so interesting about a Platypus?  Platypus requires enormous food to eat per day.  It is estimated that a Platypus daily eats food equal to its body weight.  To gather the food, they continuously forage in the fresh water ecosystem.

 

Some senior level leaders in many MNC’s are like Platypus as they get salary which is unimaginable.  To the extent the salary they receive, do they contributes to the corporate is beyond the scope of this article and hence it is not discussed. 

 

Many single men driven corporate keenly watch those who draw the ‘huge’ salary in the MNC’s with a concept in mind that such employee to be extraordinary visionaries and leaders.    They consider the ‘huge salary’ as an index of contributing value/power of such employees.  The single man’s corporate, without knowing their resource capabilities and business turnover, hire such people at high price. 

 

The newly joined Platypus employees quickly siphon out the entire resources of the corporate and in return may not contribute effectively in the short span to time. 

 

If a Platypus is placed in a small pond, in hours, the animal will eat all the small creatures like crustaceans, fishes, insects etc., in the pond.  In hour’s time, the Platypus may end up with food scarcity and starvation.   Total destruction of the pond ecosystem and food chain would happen as a consequence.  

 

Having or attempting to rear a Platypus naturally in a small pond is dangerous both to the animal and to the pond.  If feeds are provided regularly and not letting the Platypus to relay on the resources that are available in the pond, it may survive. 

 

Without much understanding, many corporate leaders hire people at high cost and end up destroying the corporate resource.  Before hiring Platypus employee, study their requirements and reconcile the possibility with the available resources in the organization. 

 

Ambition require strong roots to grow otherwise it would cause nothing other than sorrow and frustrations.  Let the food requirements of the Platypus be a reminder to your intellect as to what you can offer to expect in the corporate system and let that be your guiding principle as well.

 

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 

 

       

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