The amphibious animals like walrus, seal, otter, whale etc can live both in land and water but they....
What do the amphibious animals convey to the corporate? Whale, dolphin, otter, seal, walrus, crocodile etc., are some of the examples of amphibious animals. These animals can, in principle live both in water and land. However, they can breathe only in the air and not in the water.
Look at the paradox. They essentially need water to live. But they cannot breathe in the water. They can breathe in the land, but cannot survive long in the land. These groups of animals are neither strictly aquatic nor are strictly terrestrial.
What message the amphibious animals carry for the corporate man? Struggle is inevitable in life and only in the thread of struggle, the life, its existence or living, hangs. Never the grass can be greener from other end in reality. When in water, these animals longs to come to the surface to breath and when these animals are put on land, they longs to be in water. Even the life of the biggest animal on earth – the Whales also has only the same story to share.
Corporate life also has struggle. If one feels that only by working in MNC’s where the exposure and learning opportunities are high and hence can happy, inevitably the career growth prospects are relatively slow in such big MNC’s. To get noticed through one’s performance, one has to really make significant difference. Only by impressing the boss either through ‘show business’ or ‘true business’, one can get such respect and recognition in MNC’s. Inevitably there is struggle to achieve the above.
On the contrary, become Vice President, President or CEO for a ‘simple’ employee in single man owned corporate is very easy. If the single man likes an employee, whether such candidates have merit or not, they can become ‘anything’ in such corporate, from officer to CEO. No one questions or has the power to veto such decisions. However, there is struggle to such people to remain and sustain in such glory. One has to continuously impress the ultimate boss for the above.
There is ‘struggle’ to become something and ‘struggle’ after becoming something and ‘struggle to remain as something’ and ‘struggle to become something again’. Absolute comfort and absolute fulfillment to all our needs are never there in life.
Developing pain and frustration due to the ‘struggle’ should not be the way one should look at the life, but accept and be the commander of the struggle. This management message is what the amphibious animals convey to the corporate.
Most people in the corporate generally develop a unique psychology that others do not have any problem or struggle, but their life is full of problems. They believe that life of the boss is much easier than the life of the manager or officer etc. But the truth is that struggle is there in the life of everyone, in every designation and in every job. Only when one understand and accept the above truth, can find eternal happiness.
Dr S Ranganathan, ClinRise Derma Pvt., Ltd., Chennai
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