Are you not supporting slavery.... dear corporate bosses

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Helotism is very common in most corporate and it is known in some species of ants as well.   The ants that engaged in helotism are called ‘slave making ants’.  Many corporate and its leaders do exhibit ‘helotistic’ behaviour.   

 

Helotism is defined as a symbiotic relationship between two, where one is made as slave of the other through different strategies. 

 

The ‘slave making ants’ usually employs two different approaches to achieve the goal of ‘possessing and stealing’ the slaves from other ant colonies.  Their two distinct approaches are

 

1. Steal the pupae from other colonies, rear them and make them as slaves
2. The queen fake death and gets daggered to other colonies, then wakes up from death and kill the preexisting queen in the colony and capture the slaves

 

So amazingly the slave making ants function and organizes their working strategy.    The first approach is quite simple.  But the second approach is incredible and extraordinary.  The queen from one colony fakes death.  Then she makes the workers/slaves from other nests drag the dead queen to their nest for eating.  As soon as they taken her inside their nest, she wakes up and then kills the queen and mask her odour with the pheromone of the slain queen.  The conqueror queen then lays her eggs and makes the slaves to work for her.   

 

The most amazing fact is that, without slaves, the queen cannot survive.  Many research studies have proved that the slaving making ants fail to survive despite providing food, when separated from slaves.  There is a perfect symbiotic relationship where one is slave and the other is the master or the boss.

 

This approach is very common among many leaders in the corporate world.  For example, a person from GM cadre from one organization, when join another corporate at much higher level, they usually try to make the employees in the new corporate to subdue to them.  If they felt any rebellion, the rebel will be axed. 

 

Interestingly the ‘new leader’ also invites his/her subordinates from the previous organization to join them with the intention of getting known slaves to work for them. 

 

Believing such people, many may join and later would realize that they continue to be his or her subordinates and the only difference is that earlier it was in the previous organization and now in the new corporate and nothing has changed in life. 

 

They are slave making ants in the corporate world.  If you get trapped in the promise of others and neglect your self belief and self evaluation, you will have to live ever as slaves to others. 

 

Newer learning and insights are possible only when one opens his or her inner eyes to see and understand the nature and its incredible creations.  Essentially the subject biology has profound meaning, relevance and full of management approaches and hence the corporate must log onto the biology more than the business management for the purpose of their corporate governance.  Learn biology, nature and its untold management lessons.

 

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

 

Learn more from the 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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