Know your best to become the best

Why the embryos of sharks kill/cannibalize their own siblings when they are in the mother’s womb? Are the sharks by birth, very cruel and heartless? Why they have to resort to cannibalism at such a young age? Don’t they have anything to eat in the womb of their mother?

Should we understand the above rare/unique behaviour of the embryo sharks from the scientific angle or from an emotional angle? Is there any special management message, the corporate has to learn from the above?

The management message, embryos of the shark conveys is that if one has to become the best, one has to work for it from day one. The nature offers everything ‘for the best’ for the one, only to become the best. It is the responsibility of every one to become the best. The effort to become so resides in every one of us and hence we should start our mission without waiting for any special/auspicious time.

Unlike most animals, the female shark mates with multiple males and also fertilizes the embryos of different husbands. Definitely, some are born of weak males and some from stronger ones. The embryos that are produced of strong males cannibalize the embryos of the weaker males. The ‘power and wisdom’ necessary for the embryos of the stronger males to recognize the embryos of the weaker males, nature has provided to them. That is how nature offers its support. But to be the best, only the embryo of the stronger male has to establish and prove its might.

In every corporate, the opportunity ‘for the best’ to every individual employee pre-exist. It is the primary and fundamental responsibility of everyone in the corporate to recognize the existence of the best opportunity and must become the best. Search your opportunity in your job and not a job that has opportunity.

Complaining or grieving has little scope in ones growth. Similarly the best is not conferred by anyone by anyone but it has to be achieved or attained. As soon as the embryo of the shark hatches out from the egg, quickly it learns this management approach and becomes the best.

To become the best, one need to recognize the opportunity and must do the needful. Strength to become the best is always there in every one and the opportunity to become the best also pre-exist. Besides knowing, one has to work hard.

Unfortunately, the people in most corporate seldom recognize the above mystical truth of nature. They always wait for the opportunity or would blame the fate. The wonder of nature is profound and prolific and hence the corporate leaders have a lot to learn from the nature. Be the best, already the best is there for you.

Dr S Ranganathan, ClinRise Derma Pvt., Ltd., Chennai