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Are you Rimu tree dependent Kakapo parrot? A question to corporate employees
Are You Rimu Tree Dependent Kakapo Parrot? A Question To Corporate Employees. The flightless, ground nesting, nocturnal parrot - Kakapo has an important management message for the corporate leaders and managers to learn. When one limits ones resources and opportunity, they also necessarily limit their success chance. In due course of time, they become ‘prisoner’ of their on making.
The flightless, ground nesting, nocturnal parrot - Kakapo has an important management message for the corporate leaders and managers to learn. When one limits ones resources and opportunity, they also necessarily limit their success chance. In due course of time, they become ‘prisoner’ of their on making.
Most of the corporate employees develop ‘unnecessary overdependence’ on the corporate comfort and fallacies. A life or career beyond the matrix of corporate they work is difficult for many employees to even imagine. In truth, these people may possess talents and capabilities more than what they have understood.
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The parrot Kakapo is indeed unique among other parrots. Like how unique it is, it is also restricted in its distribution. More interesting thing about the parrot – Kakapo is its reproductive ecology. Its reproduction and breeding cycle starts with the flowering and fruiting season of the pine tree – rimu. The tree – rimu reproduce only once in 3-5 years. Since the ‘rimu trees’ reproduce only once in 3 years or more, the parrot – Kakapo also reproduce only once in 3 – 5 years. This bird is considered to be the slowest reproducing bird in avifauna. Kakapo eats the nutrient rich rimu fruits during its breeding season.
Many be, because of the above behaviour only, the population of the parrot is highly restricted and is considered to be ‘rare’ and or / ‘endangered’.
Many talented employees in corporate do behave exactly like Kakapo. They limit their capabilities within the corporate. Most of them strongly believe that they are nothing if the corporate is not there. Their performance and capability exist only because of the corporate, most believe.
Like how the parrot has limited its reproduction with the breeding cycle of the tree rimu, some people in corporate also limit their talents and never venture to test their inner capability outside the world. Once such dependency is developed, they become dependent and no more independent. Only because of such limitation, the parrot kakapo has become ‘rare’.
The management message to be learned is that the capability of people is ‘people’ centric and the corporate has only limited role to play. A capable person will be capable by all means and hence they need to look for bigger and larger opportunities to achieve success. Like kakapo, they should not limit their niche to rimu forest.
Learn about nature and know about yourself. Nature has several management lessons for the corporate man to learn.
By Dr S Ranganathan, ClinRise Derma Pvt., Ltd., Chennai
