The corporate leaders must develop the sensitivity to know the market change quickly and only then....
Cat’s urine glows in dark light. Does it signify anything to the corporate world? There are many reasons and postulates for why the urine of cats glows in dark light. But one possible management reason we should not exclude is that the glowing phenomena of the urine of the cats may serve an early warning to its prey animals. This is what makes a relevance to the corporate.
Cats always love to stock their prey in darkness/night. The eye sight of cats during night hours is very good and also it can easily hide during night. This advantage should not go totally against its prey species. Nature has always used sufficient ‘checks and balances’ in its creation. To alert the prey animals about the presence of the cat, the nature would have made even the urine of the cats to glow in dark light. When any glowing substance is noticed by the prey animals, they can take adequate care to run to safety.
But the larger question is how many prey animals are really using this cue to know the danger well in advance? Every danger serves a clear forewarning or advance notice in general. But if such subtle forewarnings of the impending danger are not clearly understood or felt, avoiding or escaping from such danger become impossible.
The management message to be de-layered from the above description is, use the intelligence and be sensitive to know and understand every signal. One has to be alert, alive and agile in the corporate world so that many “coming events, when cast their shadows before” can be understood.
Many corporate leaders always look for visible evidences or markers or references to predict the market realities. They seldom develop ‘nimble’ approach either in knowing or studying anything. But unfortunately, only such leaders are present and or venerated in most corporate.
In ‘single man’s corporate’, what the entrepreneur thinks or speaks become the gospel truth, hence the people in such corporate loves to follow the ‘entrepreneur’ than interested in developing any ‘intuitive’ leadership qualities.
Studies have shown that about 80% of the animals in the study group in one experiment has detected the luminescence of the urine and acknowledged the predator presence quickly. What would be the percentage of the corporate leaders in being sensitive in understanding the subtle changes in the market place well in advance and evolve success strategies for the corporate accordingly, only the god alone can answer. It is not just the business knowledge acquired from the leading business school; the business intuitiveness is what the leaders in modern corporate require.
The corporate leaders must engage in developing ‘intuitive’ leadership qualities and only with such leadership approach, corporate success can be carved. It is not the mere business knowledge acquired from the premier business schools that help one to be a great corporate leader, only the ‘leader instinct’ born out of intuitiveness makes one to be a corporate leader.
Dr S Ranganathan, ClinRise Derma Pvt., Ltd., Chennai
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