Be Kind or Kindless...A Leadership Message For The Corporate HR

If your justice ever jettisons your existence, never do justice and never ever pay even an iota of attention to listen to others plea or supplication for mercy or justice.  It means, be cruel and merciless as that is how you have to be.  This message may sound barbaric and rude, but that is what nature conveys through the equation of prey-predator. 


The beauty is that both the prey and predator knows the above law the best.  None of the prey species of animals like deer, zebra or wildebeest ever seems to request or beg or prostrate before a predator for mercy or kindness.  They try to escape and to escape from the predator only nature has given them several adaptations and advantages.  If they fail, they have to accept that the law and justice are on the other side.

Similarly none of the predators are kind towards their prey species.  Because of the above, one should not assume that the predators are not kind.  They too carry lot of kindness, love, care and affection to their young ones and also towards other members of their group.   The question is why an animal that has lot of love and kindness towards its own clan is so cruel and kindles towards its prey animals?  If they ever become kind, the same kindness would jettison their very existence.

They cannot afford to be kind and merciful towards their prey animals.  That does not mean they are cruel.  Law of nature never defines so.   The justice and justifications of nature are always relative and what is right to my existence is right however bad it might be to others.

The advice and suggestion is not against being kind and merciful.  But remember your gesture should always support your physical and psychological existence first and only then rest should follow.

Also, the people who plead for justice and mercy must re-invent the enormous strength and capability the nature has given to them to win all odds and injustice.  If such strength is not understood, only helplessness has to be depended upon to help oneself.

The message of nature should not be understood indiscriminately.  Be kindles does not mean be cruel.  What it means is that be kind to you first and then be kind to others.

Sacrifice can only breed greed, weakness and hopelessness.  Imagine, the predator that had not taken its meal due to ‘self sacrifice' for the sake of its young ones had never been so successful in guarding, nursing and rearing the future generation.  Only the strong parents can up bring the best progenies.

The readers of the article should not run into either crazy or quixotic state.  The message has to be understood in the right dimension, sprit and reference. 

Absolute dependency and absolute success...a HR message

It is not just the mutual benefit but mutual dependency, absolute necessity and inseparability between people and corporate also become inevitable for the success both the corporate and its people.  One may wonder how one could survive and be successful if such an exclusive dependency is ever created?  In such relationship, if one partner gives a miss due to some reason, the other one have to go insignificant and defunct.  Why nature says such ‘necessary relationship between the two different species also means grand success. 


Look at the fig trees.  All fig trees are completely depends on small wasps called ‘fig wasps' for pollination.  Without their help, the fig flower that turn outside in cannot pollinate.  Interestingly the fig wasps also cannot breed anywhere else other than inside a fig fruit.
The fig wasp enters the flower when it is open and burrow inside when the flower turn from outside in and close completely.  Inside the closed flower, the pollinator fig also gets protection to breed and while doing so, it also pollinates and fertilizes the fig flower.
The management message is not just how both partners mutually benefit, how both partners depends upon each other and how exclusive and acute such dependency is.   During this process, many other insects do try their luck by entering the fig fruit/flower.  But they may not help the plant to pollinate.  Instead, thy may use such ‘secure' place to breed and rear their young ones.  It would not benefit the fig trees at all.  But the fig trees not only recognizes such ‘cheaters' but also smartly punishes them.   The un-pollinated fruits, the fig trees never hold them.  Such fruits quickly detach from the tree and get dropped.  Once the fruit is dropped off the tree, would die off and that will necessarily also kill the ‘cheater' insects.  Only when the cheaters are destroyed, the menace due to them in future also can be minimized if not totally prevented.

The tree if holds/retains the un-pollinated fruits, it would not only cause huge economic loss to the tree but also populate cheaters who can destroy the fig trees in future by not pollinating the fruits.  Once the tree recognizes the cheater who had entered the fruit, it is wise to loose the fruit and that is why it drops the un-pollinated fruits quickly.
It is not just the mutual benefit, absolute dependency and necessity between the two also can bring success.  This language and meaning, both the corporate and its people must learn.
Be smart in such relationship to recognize and eliminate the cheaters.  The fig trees are extremely successful despite having exclusive dependency on fig wasp to pollinate.