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Emotion and temperament – a HR message from animal world
Highlights
Right temperament is inevitable for success. What is the definition of right temperament and why ‘temperament’ is so important for success? The term right temperament refers to how people balance their emotion and intelligence at different situations especially in the hour of turmoil and jubilation.
Right temperament is inevitable for success. What is the definition of right temperament and why ‘temperament’ is so important for success? The term right temperament refers to how people balance their emotion and intelligence at different situations especially in the hour of turmoil and jubilation.
Success of people largely depends not just on the capability or knowledge alone but how the situation is understood, managed and or used.
Look at the hunting approach of a lion or tiger or panther and compare with the hunting style of jackal or wild dog or Hyena. The lion or tiger or panther are definitely stronger than its prey that they chose to hunt. Unless these animals feel and get convinced about own strength over the prey, they will not make any attempt to hunt them.
Lion or tiger or panther when get convinced of own strength, also like to hide their strength, elicit a temperament which is gentle, silent and calm than being very egoistic about its strength. Even for a second, if they become arrogant about their strength or power or capability, the prey animals would recognize them and would run away.
Knowing the strength but not showing it so proudly alone will ensure success is the philosophy and management principle all predatory animals follow in nature. The predators follow the above philosophy only till they go near the prey. Once the prey is within the reach, it throws its entire strength and kills them.
If these predatory animals happen to encounter a herd of wild buffaloes, they never try to be calm and gentle in their approach. All animals in the pride/pack would try to cause ‘panic’ among buffaloes to isolate one animal. They use this ‘temperament’ because they know the fact that a herd of buffaloes are any day stronger than pride/pack. Hence they try to cause fear in the prey animals to isolate.
This is the approach wild dogs and other smaller predators do. The temperament of animals during confidence is ‘calm’, ‘gentle’ and ‘silent’. Whereas, the temperament of animals when they lack confidence will be ‘panic’ and ‘fear’ infusing type. Animals know more about the temperament and also how to shift/modulate at different situations.
Corporate employees must introspect and understand how they display their temperament. In boss-subordinate relationship, if the subordinate displays a very gentle and calm temperament, the boss becomes arrogant as he would prefer to use such gentle people to prove his strength. If the subordinate display an angry temperament, the boss becomes timid and more cautious. One exhibits the temperament opposite of the other only to save their life than get swallowed in corporate.
In the animal world, animals learn to display a calm and gentle temperament when they believe they are really strong and confident. But on the contrary, the bosses used be silent and calm with aggressive subordinates and a bit rude and showy with very submissive and meek subordinates.
In animal world, when lion display a very cool temperament only catch the prey.
The message is be honest in managing your temperament and recognize its imminent role in success.
S Ranganathan
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