Growing tree and a corporate share many things in common

An interesting question was asked as whether the roots of a tree are holding onto the soil or the soil is binding onto the root?  On physical examination or from a physical definition, both possibilities are true.  If both are true, assume which one would have happened or triggered the event or process first?

If trees need to sustain, withstand the wind & rain, need to grow, require more nutrients and water, the roots of the tree only have to bind the soil well.  If the soil were not bound by roots of the tree, the soil may move to other region due to wind or rain or may also remain in the same place where it is.  Soil remains in most occasion as soil but the tree only grows continuously. 

What does the story roots of a tree and soil convey to the corporate?  One has to assume and relate the corporate to a tree.  If a corporate has to grow it has to hold onto the basic resource – the people very firmly with its values and virtues.  If it fails to do so, people instead of binding the root, may leave the root and go away.  The growth and expansion of the tree is possible only when it increases its binding power on soil with increased extension of roots.

Unfortunately, many organizations never realize the fact that only people can add value and growth like how soil to a tree.  If the root assumes that the soils that are bound to it would make it strong, the tree would never able to grow and it can only meet its early death.  The soil sticking on the root in truth add no value to the tree in most situations and what the root has bound onto the soil only provides the nutrients to the tree.   

The entrepreneurs and HR in many organizations may unfortunately believe that people are very dependent upon the organization as they need the job.  Hence they attempt to play the ‘snake and ladder’ game with the employees to drop them down from the top like how the snake and ladder game is all about. 

Invisibly they were creating a culture of ‘cognitive dissonance’ in the organization.  The HR or the entrepreneur may think that such game is needed to scare and fear someone in the organization.   But in most occasions, it never limits to someone and would spread like an epidemic disease reaching pandemic proportion.

The entrepreneurs and the HR must realize the fact that every other person by watching the above in the organization will be practicing or playing snake and ladder game at their level and they would stop the game unless & until they ensure the fall of someone from top to the bottom.