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Process orientation or purpose orientation – Learn from ants with wings
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Loose the wing when the purpose or the goal is accomplished is the philosophy, queen and male ants follow in their life. Having wings is always an additional advantage for any terrestrial life form.
Loose the wing when the purpose or the goal is accomplished is the philosophy, queen and male ants follow in their life. Having wings is always an additional advantage for any terrestrial life form.
But, interestingly the queen ants loose them at later stage of life; especially when mating is over or in other words, the key biological purpose is accomplished.
When the instinct of setting up a new colony of ants when beckons, the queen ants usually gets ready for mating. To achieve the above purpose, the queen ants develop wings and fly in the sky.
Similarly, the male ants do develop wings. Both the male and female ants will have their ‘fun’ filled in pleasure not on land but in the sky. Once the ‘born purpose’ or ‘the purpose for which they are born’ (mating), is complete, the queen ants would loose wings and land safely on earth and develop a new colony. On the other hand, the males also would loose their wings, and then die.
What message the nature and evolution sends to the humanity through a ‘queen ant phenomena’ is the importance of purpose or the ultimate goal orientation. The process or methodologies followed in most corporate are only to attain certain goal or purpose and hence the accomplishment of the purpose is seen the most than the methodology or the process.
Theoretically, if the queen ant wishes to have wings permanently, it has to avoid mating. Once the mating is avoided or delayed, perhaps the wings may not disappear as the very purpose of the formation of the wings is only for mating. The wings are like some process or methods or SOP’s; they help one to reach the goal or the end result.
One must get the above message in its full meaning. Wings are the inevitable component for mating success to ants, especially to some species of queen ants. Once the mating process is over, ants seems bother less about their wings and work more towards developing a new colony of own.
The corporate must understand about the ‘process people’ from the context of queen ants and wings. In most occasions people believe that only the process gives the result and hence the process is more important than the result. Process is indeed important but one should remember the fact that no process is bigger than its result. Having a process for the purpose of having a discipline is fine but ‘too much worship’ of either the ‘process’ or the ‘process people’ may land the corporate in big trouble.
Every event, every action and every life form on earth has a strong management message to the mankind in general and the corporate in particular. But one needs to be smart to cognize them.
Have people with ‘goal accomplishment’ and not just ‘process people’ who only know to do ‘sermons’ and create nothing beyond a few SOP’s, DOP’s and Process documents.
Dr S Ranganathan
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