The corporate leaders and the HR function must learn the important management message...
Do corporate people engage in Mullerian mimicry? The corporate world must first know the definition of the term – Mullerian mimicry, only then they can agree or disagree to the above question.
Poison dart frog is a deadly amphibian. Interestingly, the frog is also brilliantly coloured. The brilliant colour of the frog although catch the attention of the predator, but the same also warns them. Imagine, if the poison dart frog were not brightly coloured, the predators might attack them without knowing them to be poisonous. This might prove fatal both to the prey and the predator. The management wisdom of nature is so profound and wonderful. Nature has given deadly poison to the frog for the purpose of its defense. The poison mainly comes to the frog its diet, an insect.
Nature also wants to sufficiently warn the predator about the deadly poison of the frog. To alert the predator, the frog is made with brilliant colour. Interestingly, different species of frogs that carry deadly poison in different geographical regions also have brilliant colouration. The similarity in certain noticeable characters like skin/wing colour of two different species otherwise they are equally harmful is called Mullerian mimicry.
The brilliant colouration of the skin of certain frogs warns the predator about the deadly poison and thereby they avoid them. Knowing the presence of the deadly poison in these frogs otherwise is difficult for the predator. The message is that those who carry deadly/negative leadership quality will have some well noticeable characteristics. If the corporate fail to notice these characteristics, the leadership values of these people cannot be understood. Without such understanding, if such people are recruited, they muddle the culture of the corporate.
No predator would have just learned the fact that the frog that is brightly coloured is poisonous. Many ancestors (great grand parents) of the present day predators would have eaten these brightly coloured frogs and would have paid the price. In due course of time, the predators would have registered the bright colour of the frog as index of danger and hence are avoiding. Similarly, the HR function must develop the art of knowing the inner mind of people through certain well manifested characteristics.
If the Mullerian mimicry among people is not well understood by the corporate leaders and the respective HR function, instead of hiring ‘talent’, they will be hiring poisonous people to destroy the corporate. When a predator in the jungle can detect the presence of poison in a frog through its colouration, why not the HR about the leadership quality and content of people through some means?
Dr S Ranganathan, ClinRise Derma Pvt., Ltd., Chennai
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