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Cockroach and Cockroach’s Corporate
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Is there anything called ‘cockroach corporate’ in the world? People may wonder as what is called cockroach corporate. Indeed, many corporate in the world do function like ‘cockroach corporate’ these days.
Is there anything called ‘cockroach corporate’ in the world? People may wonder as what is called cockroach corporate. Indeed, many corporate in the world do function like ‘cockroach corporate’ these days.
Cockroach is a very successful insect, evolved over times to resist and become triumphant over even the effects of radiation, harsh & deadly toxic chemicals and insecticides etc.
The more astonishing and bewildering aspect of the cockroach is that it can survive for several days even after its head is cut off or decapitated. How such survival is possible for these insects? It is not mere fiction or imagination, truth and absolute science.
Many body functions in the cockroach system are independent (with minimum interdependency) and are simple, and the head exerts less command and control over the abdomen (body).
The head, with eyes and mouth parts help the cockroach only to see things and eat its food. Breathing is also possible through the small pores in its body. Because of the above reason, when the head is removed, the abdomen survives for days. The abdomen finally dies because of starvation as the abdomen cannot eat the food. The corporate employees must learn about the insect – cockroach and its uniqueness to evaluate the prevailing culture of the corporate where they work.
Many entrepreneurs believe that even if the ‘head of a function/department’ in the corporate is removed or resigned, still the function/department may survive and perform well. According to them, the ‘head’ of the department in such corporate plays insignificant roles and hence their absence makes no difference to the system. The entrepreneurs, during such occasions, directly interact and started to guide the people with an illusion that they can lead the corporate single handedly to success.
When the absence of ‘the head of a function’ makes no difference to the system in some corporate means, they have no significant role or powers. Perhaps such bosses may exist in the corporate just to carry some ‘numismatic’ values and the entrepreneur is the one who steals the thunder in such corporate. From the above facts, it is clear that such corporate are extremely primitive in its organization structure and culture.
When the entrepreneur boasts about their corporate, how it functions well even without a ‘head’ and how empowered the employees are etc., they simply reveals nothing but how primitive their corporate actually is. They are running nothing but a ‘cockroach corporate’. It may survive but never ever grow.
Mostly, the corporate that are run by ‘single man’ are the one that functions like ‘cockroach corporate’.
The employees must introspect the culture of the corporate where they works in the light of what they have learned about the cockroaches and must take a final call as whether to accept and continue to be a part of such system or quit and join MNC’s or other reputed corporate like Tata’s, Birla’s, Unilever, P&G etc.
After all, a cockroach can only give wakeup call and can awaken one to break ones self made bondage and loyalty to the corporate.
Employees must increase their interdependency on diversity and leap to the highest level of leadership where one works to protect and preserve both the nature and corporate alike.
Dr S Ranganathan
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