Allure and attack, the method some bosses may adopt in corporate

Most corporate and its employees may not know anything about a fish called – frogfish.  The frogfish is very unique, very smart and the best management strategist ever one can find in nature.  The management strategy of frogfish is very amazing and hence every corporate employee must learn a lot lessons from this aquatic animal. 

The frogfish employs very tricky and intelligent methods to catch its prey.   This marine animal uses its colour and appearance to camouflage.  This is all about passive prey catching technique as the colour and the coral reef like appearance may fool the prey and they get caught by the fish. 

The frogfish structurally appear like coral reefs or sponge and hence many fishes and crabs do come towards it to hide it from other predatory marine animals.  It may be too late a realization for them that what was thought to be safe was a danger from which hardly they could save themselves. 

The colour and appearance mimicry is a passive method of catching the prey.  The frogfish also actively engage in attracting the prey and catch them.  They have a specialized thread like structure on their head called ‘illicium’; they move the illicium gently to attract the prey.   The ‘illicium’ exactly resembles like a ‘moving worm’ in water.  Many fishes and crabs by noticing the ‘worm’ will come towards it to catch and thereby get caught by the frogfish.   This is all about frogfish.  What it conveys to the corporate is amazing.

Many senior employees or bosses in some corporate do exhibit all or some of the hunting techniques of frogfish in trapping their subordinates.   As long as they have to remain as boss, they need their subordinates to be very weak, scared and listening type.  This is the general philosophy of most bosses. Unfortunately, many subordinates easily get disillusioned by the colour and appearance of their bosses.  More often they believe what they see is true and hence get close to their bosses.

Some of the employees may smartly move away from such boss by not getting fascinated by the ‘colour and or the appearance’.   Interestingly they may get trapped by the ‘allure’ techniques of the bosses like how frogfish does with its prey.  Subordinates may believe the boss innocently and nicely get trapped. 

The message to be learned by the corporate employees is that the successful survival requires not only talents but also the complete knowledge of prey-predator equation.   A prey remains as prey to its predator forever.  It is true both in nature as well as in corporate world.  Being a subordinate, they need to exert caution and intelligence in interacting with the boss.  When the survival demands its existence (ensuring the job) in the corporate world, the behaviour of most bosses will be no way different from frogfish.    Blaming the fate or destiny is foolish and knowing & using the intelligence & commonsense is only the best option, the subordinates must know. 

In the marine ecosystem, the presence of frogfish is difficult distinguish due to its colour and appearance hence the prey easily get preyed.  The same way, many boss will have different methods of ‘subordinate trapping techniques’ which may be apparently invisible to most subordinates if they are not smart enough.  

The purpose of the articles is not meant to belittle the boss-subordinate equilibrium in the corporate world, but to make them aware of the truth through the most relevant examples in nature. 

Single man dominant corporate are the one largely support the employees with ‘frogfish’ behaviour or attitude or culture.  The MNC’s like Unilever or P&G or Garnier may not support/favour such culture or employees in their organization.