The corporate employees must learn the two operating domains such as fear and hunger and how they can contribute....
The black buck, a species of an antelope is considered to be one of the fastest runners among animal kingdom. The black buck is reported to outrun cheetah in its running speed.
But often the fastest running animal – the black buck, falls prey to cheetah and other predatory animals in the jungle. One may wonder how an animal with such great power to run is getting caught by other animals those obviously do not have such speed to chase. The important management message hidden between the ‘black buck and cheetah’, the corporate leaders must learn.
The black buck when finds a cheetah after it, runs to save its life whereas the cheetah runs after a black buck to fills its hunger. The corporate people and especially the people from the HR function must get the right management message from the above.
Two group of people generally exists in most corporate viz.,
1. Fear centric people
2. Passion (hunger) centric people
The fear centric people always attempt to save their life in corporate world. Whenever there is an issue and whether they are related to the issue or not, these group of people by default get jittery and attempts to save their life (job). The talent, scholarly knowledge, intelligence or experience of these people goes defunct to their fear oriented ‘need’ to save life. It is like the black buck, despite having great speed in running, succumbs to its predator because it runs to save its life than exploiting its talents to run at great speed, fully. If the black buck runs with confidence, cheetah may not reach or match a black buck ever in its life.
On the contrary, the passion (hunger) centric people make their achievements easily in the corporate world. They never worry about their limitations or about the talents and uniqueness of the opponents with whom they compete. Only their inner hunger drives them to success.
The nature has always shown many ways and means to the ‘hungry’ species to be successful. The evolution and species diversity in nature itself is deeply located only in the ‘tenet’ of ‘hungry one achieves the best’.
Instead of attempting to save your life every then and there, listen to your hunger and respect it. Let the life not be defined or dominated by ‘fear’ but allow the ‘abysmal hunger’ (passion) to rule and dictate the life.
The management message between a black buck and its predator has great relevance for the corporate people. When one highlights about ones knowledge, experience, intelligence etc., at different occasions in the corporate, one should learn to operate from the domain of ‘passion’ and not from ‘fear’.
It is not, others strength or capability is going to limit your success, only your passion, commitment, effort and self belief make your dream come true.
Dr S Ranganathan, ClinRise Derma Pvt. Ltd., Chennai
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