Brain – Eye Ratio - HR message of Ostrich

Some of the curious facts about the gigantic flightless bird – Ostrich, everyone in the corporate needs to know in order relate, compare and to understand their conducts and leadership dimensions. The curious fact about the ostrich is that they have eyes that are larger than their brain.

Corporate people must introspect deeply about such anomaly than being just curious about an ostrich. What we can see so obviously in an ostrich can be seen among people in most corporate. Therefore one needs to know that the above ‘anomaly’ is not only true for an ostrich, but also for some people in the corporate as they also have eyes that are larger than their brain.

Man is nothing but reflection of the nature, especially the flora and fauna. He reflects the nature in many ways viz.,

1. Similarity in behaviour
2. Similarity in his thinking pattern
3. Similarity in his leadership disposition
4. Similarity at the anatomical level

Instead of trying to know why the ostrich has evolved funnily with its eyes bigger than its brain?

Many people in most corporate have bigger eyes like an ostrich with small brain. They use their eyes more than their brain. They love to see things around them and just report without using their brain to process. They often fail to analyzing what they have seen has any relevance and merit to the corporate or not. Their only job is to see what others are doing.

These people in the corporate knowingly or unknowingly cut the relationship between their eyes and brain and prefer to give less pain and labor to the brain. Whatever they see is the only fact they believe.

Some corporate leaders strongly believe only what they have seen to be true and would spit great amount of ‘disbelief and mistrust’ in the corporate ecosystem.

What is anatomically present in an ostrich i.e. eyes larger than the brain is distinctively and distinguishably present in the behaviour of many corporate people. Are they not ‘ostrich’ in the corporate? Why they carry the ‘behaviour of an ostrich anatomy’?

Using eyes to see is wise thing than just using ears and believe whatever is heard or told to be true. But if one fails to use the brain to process whatever is seen, the perceiver diminishes his stature to an ostrich.

Indeed, the ostrich has small brain when compared to the size of its eyes, but for the corporate man, what really limit him?

Although it is curious, but instead of getting lost in ones curiosity over an ostrich, one need to ponder whether they mimic ostrich anatomy at their behaviour.

During appraisal period, the bosses try to use their eyes the most with an illusion that only then they will not be fooled by the subordinate. Instead of using the eyes, they need to use their brain only then they can guide appraise to success. But unfortunately, most bosses do the job of performance appraisal as ‘examination answer sheet evaluation’ and believe that they have no role in the performance of appraise.

The corporate that are run by single man do favour such culture that facilitates the evolution of ‘ostrich’ leaders.

Dr S Ranganathan, ClinRise Derma Pvt., Ltd.