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Are you lost to tongue eating louse? A corporate leadership message
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Are you an innocent Spotted Rose Snapper is the question the nature would like to ask to the corporate bosses, entrepreneurs, CEOs etc. If you have any doubt, learn and be aware of tongue eating louse.
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Are you an innocent “Spotted Rose Snapper’ is the question the nature would like to ask to the corporate bosses, entrepreneurs, CEO’s etc. If you have any doubt, ‘learn’ and ‘be aware’ of ‘tongue eating louse’.
The corporate bosses always appoint different people of their personal preference to do different jobs in the corporate. Interestingly, some could become too close to the boss and the bosses would always consult these people for anything and everything. Mostly, the functional heads viz., the finance head, legal head or Sales and Marketing head etc., are the people who can likely to get too close with the ‘ultimate’ boss in the corporate.
With time, someone from the above cohort become the most indispensable to the corporate boss. In due course of time, these people would starts to act like proxy boss or final authority. The ultimate boss or the entrepreneur or the CEO may not be aware of how their most valuable ‘people’ behave or function in the corporate. The corporate bosses go unaware of such people because they reduce to the level of ‘Spotted Rose Snappers’.
The spotted rose snapper is a beautiful fish that lives in the ocean. They often fall victim to a crustacean called ‘tongue eating louse’. The tongue eating louse usually enters the mouth of the spotted rose snapper through the gill space. Once the louse reaches its destination – the mouth, slowly it starts eating and corroding the tongue of the fish. But it is studied that the fish may not even know it is loosing its tongue as the louse would eat the tongue progressively and slowly. Further, the tongue eating louse would assume the role of the ‘tongue’ of the fish.
Because of the above reason, the spotted rose snapper will never know they have lost their tongue and tongue eating louse is only playing the role of their tongue.
Loss of the tongue, the fishes need not feel because the louse performs the function of the tongue, but definitely at the expense of the fish. The innocent fish may not be aware of the above. The same situation will be happening in some corporate also. On behalf of the boss, only their ‘deputies’ will speak. These ‘deputies’ will be running the entire show as well. For such bosses, without these deputies, cannot run the show or do anything, like how the tongue eating louse to the spotted red snapper that has already lost the tongue to the louse.
The corporate leaders and the bosses must understand the above message clearly. Definitely they need people and people have to be empowered and responsibilities have to be delegated. But the question is whether these empowered people are behaving like ‘tongue eating louse’. Unless this question is asked and answered by the leaders, the corporate culture cannot be set right.
The problem of ‘tongue eating louse’ is high in single man owned corporate where the flattery and sycophancy of people can make the entrepreneur to become like ‘spotted red snapper’.
Dr S Ranganathan
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