Management message from flowering plants

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What fundamental law, the people in the corporate should follow while ‘performing’?  Should the performance of people in the corporate to be ‘due to their own expectation’ to sustain in the corporate or ‘to meet the expectation’ of others in the corporate? 

 

The question is ‘due to’ or ‘to meet’ the ‘expectation’ the people perform in corporate?  

 

To understand the meaning and the answer of the above question, the people must learn the plant science and especially about the flowering aspect of plants.

 

Most of the flowering plants produce thousands of flowers.  Some may flower throughout the season and some during a particular season.  The seasonal flowering plants generally engage in ‘mass’ flowering.   The ultimate biologic purpose of flowering is to produce seeds and the seeds to produce new plants (reproduction). 

 

Although the plants produce thousands of flowers and seeds, success of the new plants from the seeds is reported to be very least.   The flowers, the young or ripened fruits and or even the seeds may be eaten by large number of predatory animals.  Even the young shoots also fall prey to predation, lack of water, sunlight and food etc. 

 

Every plant on this biome has the biologic expectation that it has to perform well to ‘procreate’ successfully before it dies.  This expectation is only making them to invest heavily in producing flowers, fruits and seeds.  Only when they perform well, the success can be achieved.   If they are bordered and limited only by their expectation, no plant would ever produce such large number of flowers. 

 

Imagine, if plants produce very limited number of flowers, the presence of the flowers may not even known to the pollinators.  If the pollinators are not attracted towards the flower, the pollination and subsequent seed formation may not occur.  Plants know the fact that simply to meet their expectation, if they perform, they may not achieve success.  Success demands one to ‘perform’ ‘due to and to meet’.  It means, to meet ones own expectation (due to), one has to perform, and also one has to perform ‘to meet’ the expectation of others. 

 

This management principle, every corporate employee and the leaders must remember.  The performance always should follow the ‘couplet’ of due to and to meet. 

 

Unfortunately, most corporate bosses make people to perform for their success and most employees too work for their own existence or self gratification.  When they do so, they largely neglect the corporate and its welfare.  Progressively, they destroy both their existence and the existence of the corporate.

 

Look at the flowering plants.  They want to procreate.  For the above, they need pollinators.  Pollinators also have an expectation.  Plants meet the expectation of the pollinators to meet its own expectation.  This is the best example of how success should be seen, defined and achieved.  Everyone in the sphere is respected, rewarded and their expectations are recognized.  This is what both the corporate bosses and the subordinates should learn from the flowering plants.

 

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

  

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