Management lessons from a Bee

A bee stayed at his jam packed home happily. One day it went out to fectch some nectar to prepare honey.

It entered a beautiful garden.
Without looking at all the available possibilities(in his case flowers), first it entered the yellow flowers at the enterance.

After having sucked most of the nectar and half tummy filled, it went to the next not so nice creamish pink colour. It was a wrong choice as the flower was dry and had very little nectar. The bee wasted time and energy to suck out the remaining nectar from the dry flower.

After this, still without exploring - the bee went on to a slightly more attractive looking pinkish flower. There happily it fed and got its stomach full.

As the bee took off to return to its home, it saw the most bright & attractive flower at the end of the garden. It was tempted to taste the nextar of this attractive flower. So it landed on this flower and sucked the nectar.

As the bee drank too much of it, the stomach burst open and the bee collapsed dead.

Moral of the story -

• The good things may not be the first things of life.
• Make the right choices, else you will waste your resources.
• Once you are content, control your temptation and greed.

 

 PS - As I am selected as a featured subscriber to the photo & travel blog - Pixellicious Photos, I would try to compile photo blogs for this week! 

Indian connection to Pak match fixing

Amir, Salman & Asif (Getty Images)

The 5 Why's is a very good management tool to find the root cause of a problem.

Thinking about the latest controversy surrounding Pakistan cricket, I did a RCA (root cause analysis) using the 5 Why's technique.

Not surprisingly I found an Indian connection.

Why? – Why did Pak cricketers indulged in match\spot fixing?
Because Pak cricketers are in huge debt.

 
Why? – Why are they in huge debt?
Because they invested money thinking that they can earn enough  from IPL

 
Why? – Why dint they earn enough from IPL?
Because Pak cricketers were not allowed to participate in IPL
 

Why? – Why were they not allowed to play in IPL?
Because Indians think that Pak was behind 26/11 attack on Mumbai. Pak does not acknowledge its role.

 
Why? – Why did Pak terrorists attack India?
Because they cannot see India prosper. They cannot see a peaceful India. They are jealous of Indian growth.

So after these 5 whys – we know the Indian connection to the Pakistan's match fixing.

Examples kill Essence?

Harsha Bhogle was in our office a couple of days ago. And what do you expect Harsha to do? Speak. Yes for sure, he was here to speak. Speak on what? Sports? Cricket? Commentary skills? Oratory techniques? All these seem to go well with the man - HARSHA BHOGLE. Now look at the title of the talk he gave us - "10 Sporting Truths". You are pretty sure that he came here to talk on some sports related topic.

But it was a management talk. Hmm...Wondering??? You are not alone. There were some people who have less interest in sports and did not turn up for the talk. That's fair.

What about the people who came to the talk in huge numbers? Did they get the management gyan? 

Most were mesmerized with Harsha's talk. His sports examples will be remembered. His notorious sense of timing will be appreciated for some more days. Photos will be shared. His curious change in hair style will be analyzed. 

Everybody who attended the talk will remember that Ricky Ponting hits stumps (when fielding) very often. Everybody remembers the Chicago Bulls strategy on Micheal Jordan to win NBA. All would remember the Tiger Woods joke. Guys were appraised that Ronaldinho is not in world cup squad of Brazil. Probably we will also remember the Habib-ul-Bashar statement at the end of a fascinating day of cricket for Bangladesh (such days are rare for the team).

Remembering this is good. But it would be best if people remembered the underlying meaning of these examples (or Sporting truths). 

Harsha just wanted to drive the management lessons via these examples. Wondering if that's the right approach (especially from the charismatic cricket commentator, Harsha)! The lesson is important than the example.