Koala and Human are same for some HR – Similarity trap

Appoint Koala in your corporate if you are a stanch believer of ‘similarity’. Many corporate while giving ‘briefs’ to people in the corporate to develop ‘products’ always prefers to benchmark their products with what is available in the market.

With reference to the benchmark, the corporate expects the people to develop similar looking products or products with some similarity. They believe that customer connect is possible only when there is similarity with what is available. Once the product is ready, they engage seriously in creating some ‘Unique Selling Preposition’.

Only from the ‘similarity trap’ these corporate loves to develop their creative vision, ideas, products, marketing strategies etc. Innovation or ‘anything that is totally new’ scares them the most. They love to follow only the footprints of others and never want to be ‘path breaker’ or ‘path maker’.

The question is why some corporate and its leadership prefers to be a mere ‘followers’ than the ‘creator of new order’? The ‘follower’ psychology is the most delimiting factor of the growth of such corporate. These corporate may have diverse talents and capable people but the leadership component never allows these ‘talents’ to make a difference.

These leaders must learn about the interesting similarity of the marsupial mammal – Koala with human being. No other animal has such striking and startling similarity with man like Koalas.

The finger print is considered to be unique for every human being and is also one of the legally accepted identification marks of an individual.

The finger prints of Koalas looks similar to the finger prints of human being. In hindsight, one may seriously consider the finger print of Koalas to human. A little expertise is required to differentiate them from the fingerprint of human being.

Look at the beauty of nature. Koala represents the most primitive mammal on earth. Based on the placental development, these animals come next to the egg laying mammals like Platypus and Echidna. These animals have poorly developed placenta and that is why they give birth to ‘pre-matured’ young ones and later nurse them in the ‘marsupial’ pouch.

Man, the Homo sapiens on the other hand are considered as the final product of evolution. There is a similarity between the ‘man’ and ‘koala’. If the nature had ever kept ‘similarity’ as its bench mark or reference in creating different species of plants and animals, the nature would not have such diversity as what it is now.

Innovation and creativity coupled with customer need should be the guiding force of every development and effort. Looking for some similarity, following the similarity and be in the matrix of similarity will not help any corporate to find success. Such leaders in fact may not find any difference between man and Koala as both share great homology in the fingerprint. Such leaders should better appoint Koalas in corporate than humans.

Dr S Ranganathan, ClinRise Derma Pvt., Ltd., Chennai