Who are those slaves in the corporate- mosquito or leech

Feb 10
08:39

2012

Ranganathan

Ranganathan

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Mosquito and leech behaviour many employees exhibit in the corporate and hence the corporate and HR must understand....

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What one should understand or learn from a mosquito and a leech?  What lesson they teach the man in a corporate?  How important is such teachings to man and his existence?

Both mosquito and leech in general tap the blood of man and other animals and that is how they survive.    How different are these animals in their approach in taking the blood for their survival? 

Mosquito bite and cause irritation and annoyance to man and animals while taking the blood.  But leech harm less,Who are those slaves in the corporate- mosquito or leech Articles cause less pain and annoyance while taking the blood from man or animal.  Why, the mosquito could cause such irritation but not the leech.  Understand the above difference from the management perspective. 

Mosquito is small, can easily enter into our house, can hide well and only require very small quantity of blood to live.  It has a great chance and opportunity to draw our blood.  Hence it has not developed the great art of taking our blood without causing pain or annoyance to us or be gentle.  

On the contrary, the leech only has very limited opportunity and chance of getting the blood and, it also requires reasonable quantity of blood for its meal.  Further, the leech also cannot enter and escape as quickly as a mosquito.  When the opportunity is less and, the expectation is more, one has to have a strategy of inflicting least pain or discomfort to man or animals while taking blood. 

This approach can be seen in many employees in most corporate.  Some people slap criticism on the organization very crudely.  The people who are very ‘raw’ in their approach are from the lower cadre or who draw less salary.  Their stake is less, have plenty of job opportunity elsewhere and, hence can safely escape to other organization.  Hence they bite the organization without any mercy.  Any anomaly in the system, they react sharply and, their approach will be like the behaviour of a mosquito. 

On the contrary, the employees at the higher levels with higher dependency on the organization seldom bite the organization despite witnessing some obvious anomaly.  Why they never dare to correct or even suggest the top management to set things right in the organization?  They never adventure such things because of the ‘leech’ attitude.   They have limited job opportunity outside and, their salary expectation is high, so they cannot afford to be ‘rude or raw’ in their approach. 

Mosquito can bite you badly and, indeed it can afford to be so, but leech cannot behave in the same way as a mosquito.  Opportunity is less for them and, they also require more quantity of blood than what mosquito needs. 

Understand the behaviour and attitude of people in the corporate as whether they exhibit ‘mosquito’ or ‘leech’ behaviour.  Neither the leech nor the mosquito is good for your corporate; you need ‘employees’ who are professional in their conduct.  

Remember the lines in the poem “Stanzas on freedom” by James Russell Lowell, “They are slaves who dare not be, In the right with two or three”

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