Approach opportunity with possibility and not with limitation

Aug 6
08:01

2011

Ranganathan

Ranganathan

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Corporate employees must know the fact that it is not the resource abundance or resource scarcity that limit the growth......

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Plenty or scarcity has caused the evolution and species diversity on earth?  Certainly scarcity will be the most preferred answer? But definitely,Approach opportunity with possibility and not with limitation Articles plenty also have caused evolution and diversity of species.  Natural belief is that scarcity would cause competition and hence evolution may favour speciation.  Abundance of resource do cause problem.  Abundance always favour over utilization, misuse and abuse of the resource.

Nature has shown the best way of how well the resource, opportunity and the time have to be used and utilized.  The modern corporate should learn the art of utilizing and optimizing the opportunity instead of weighing or validating the limitations and abundance of the opportunity.  The employees must be trained to be creative at the intellect level and should come out with newer ideas and possibilities when the organization faces the situation of adversity.

The very common and customary grievance the marketing department in most corporate used to make is that the annual expenditure for advertisement and or the market spent is far too low than the competitor organization.  They often cite the above reason to be the major cause for the business not growing / happening. 

The story of R&D scientists will be in no way different from their counter parts in marketing department.  The scientists in general in most corporate would say that the R&D facility they have do not have the adequate infrastructure support for good/great research.

The story of every other department in most corporate will be no way different from the above.  Everyone will be complaining of what is not there or available as the key limiting factor of the performance. 

The corporate and its employees must know that limitation/scarcity is also one of the best resources and with the above resource they can make wonders.  Some recent study findings suggest that bi-pedalism in man would have happened from grass lands or from open lands.  When man moved to the open land from deep jungle for his/her protection, his/her vulnerability grew several folds in open land as well.  In the open land, his protection was limited as he may not have found much scope to hide nor he could run and escape. To ensure his protection only, the evolution of brain power in man grew in geometric proportion or in a limitless extent.  Had there been no grasslands or open lands the possibility man migrating to the open land from deep jungle would not have happened and perhaps he would have continued his hide and seek game in deep jungle. 

Man moved from plenty to scarcity, evolution has helped him in the best possible way.  The corporate must learn the fact that any resource crunch or similar challenge, they should consider as best opportunity to invent newer things.   Only the need and necessarily favour invention and diverse leadership possibilities.   When the entire energy and the capability is invested in grieving about the limitations and scarcity, invention possibility would decline, regress and disappear.  This is one of the major problems killing many corporate these days.  

Corporate also should remember that having plenty of opportunity or resources also pose equal threat.  Misuse and abuse often happen when the opportunity or resource is plenty.  From the employees’ point of view, they should remember that when the organization has plenty of resource, they can hire talents at high cost. When opportunity is plenty, recognition for the business success often will goes to the opportunity not for your effort or innovation.  Remember, when there is scarcity for resource or opportunity, your have job security.   

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