Hippo can live in water and on land, concern of fish is genuine

Jul 6
11:25

2012

Ranganathan

Ranganathan

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Corporate employees must learn the important management lesson various animals like fish, dolphin.....

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What the corporate people have to learn from a dolphin,Hippo can live in water and on land, concern of fish is genuine Articles whale, hippo, crocodile, wide variety of fishes and frogs?  All the above listed animals live in water while some can come to the land and can survive on land also for a short while.  But for fishes, surviving on land is impossible.  All these information are known to people in most corporate and hence may think, what new is there to learn from these animals.

 

Fish can breathe only in water and they cannot live without water.  Whereas, dolphin and whale although can live in water, has to come out of water to breath. They cannot live on land. Quite contrary to both the fishes and aquatic mammals like dolphin and whale, crocodile and hippo can live on land for quite sometime and can live in water as well.  But both the animal has to come out of water to breath.  They too cannot live on land for longer period of time.

 

Which animal in the above list is most lucky or more evolved?  Fish can tell to the dolphin and whale that you can although live in water but cannot breathe in water.  Certainly, the dolphin and whale can reply to the fishes that they cannot live in land.  Crocodile and hippo can also snigger and giggle at fishes as they both can live on land and water as well.  But can they live on land forever?  If not, what great advantage they gain by having the dual ability or advantage.  Such ability is not complete and hence it is not expected to offer any great value. 

 

The frog, totally different from all the above described animals, can live on land and in water and also can breaths both in water and on land.   Despite such advantage, the frog is a very small animal and easily fall prey to many other life forms on earth. 

 

Limitation has advantage or advantage has limitation?  Does lucky are equally unlucky or unlucky are simultaneously lucky also. 

 

Luck or ill luck, limitation or advantage, it lies very much in ones observation, interpretation, the state of mind and state of being.  If one sees luck, he sees luck; otherwise what one sees is only what one wish to see.  It is not ‘what is’ affect or pollute ones state of being but ‘how one is’ only makes the difference.  

 

Many corporate employees often blame the ‘self’ to be unlucky and others around them are lucky.  Or in other words, they are suffering with many limitations but others have many advantages.  Self pity and self hatred never offer solution to any problem. 

 

Look at the beauty and complicity of nature.  Adaptation and the evolution of various life forms convey millions of management lessons to man.  The corporate employees must learn to see and interpret what is as ‘what is’ and the limitless advantages rather than crying at the limitations.    

 

Ref: Management book – Jungle wisdom for corporate management – lessons from university by Swami Sukhabodhananda and Dr S Ranganathan