Proud to be a mango employees in the corporate world

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The corporate and its HR function needs to identify and inevitably promote the ‘mango performers’ for the overall growth and welfare of the organization.   Well before identifying the mango performers, they necessarily should know the meaning of the term ‘mango performers’ from the corporate context.

 

Mango fruit is popularly called as the ‘queen of fruits’, which enjoys great nutritive, delicacy and commercial value across the globe.  Besides all, the mango tree also conveys an important management principle to the corporate, that no business institutions would have ever taught such lessons to the business leaders. 

 

Mango is a succulent fruit and indeed a summer fruit as well.  The plant mango, botanically called as Mangifera indica grows in arid region, where water and nutrients in the soil are not abundant.   The tree starts flowering and fruiting from onset of summer through mid to late summer. 

 

Summer months are the period of scarcity of water and the heat can become really torturous in the tropical regions where the mango plants grow well.  

 

But during scarcity, during the season where water is scarce, heat is intense, the mango plants flower and fruit.  Indeed the fruits are very delicious, water and nutrient rich; sumptuously quench the thirst and tiredness of those who eat the fruit.

 

Mango tree is not the one plant that would fruit when the favourable situation is available or the best care and comfort are given to them in the orchard.  It has evolved to fruit during the worst phase of the season where many other plants may not even survive. 

 

Every corporate will have to pass through such phases of adversity or scarcity of ideas, innovations etc.  The huge chunk of the people in the corporate may know to perform only when there is no threat or challenge. Or in other words, the environment is favourable and conducive. 

 

The corporate requires both type of performers viz.,

 

1. Best performers in the best environment    
2. Best performers in the worst environment

 

In brief, the corporate must identify the ‘mango performers’ so that they can cruise the organization safely through the adverse situation. 

 

If the corporate believes strongly in the philosophy of best environment only will create best performers and ask why some people are not doing the best despite the best facility is given to them, may miserably go wrong.

The HR function in most corporate would prefer to sack the people who do not perform well despite the best care and comfort is given.  They need to go a little deeper to know whether such employees fall under the definition of ‘mango performers’.    

 

More manure and more water to a mango plant only will support the vegetative growth of the tree and not the fruiting.   The message is not against giving best comfort to these employees or to engineer some discomfort to them. 

 

Have such mango performers in the corporate and certainly they can offer the best performance at the hour of adversity.  Learn from nature; let your learning from nature enrich your wisdom to govern the corporate to success.

 

Dr S Ranganathan, Director, 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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