Who are patriots and professionals in corporate

Patriots are good for corporate or not?  Patriots or professional, who are the most wanted species for corporate these days?  How to define patriots and how to define professionals from the perspective of a corporate?

Patriots in a corporate world are like fishes in a pond.  Once water is drained out, the fishes would die or in other word, fishes cannot survive without a water body.  Professionals are like frogs that can jump to other habitats and until they reach another pond, can breathe and survive in land.

Another way of defining the patriots is that they know only to worship their bosses or the corporate.  On the other hand, the professionals know only to show respect.  The patriots always talk about what is harmful to the organization, purely from an angle of ‘born well wisher’ style and on the contrary, the professionals would speak what the organization should do in order to prevent any harm to the organization.  One would say don’t do this and that and the other would say please do this and that.  

From the evolutionary perspective, the professionals have evolved in a diverse way as frogs have diversified into different species to live in water, land and even in an arboreal and an aerial mode of life.  But no fish species except one or two, can survive outside water.  The habitat of fish is absolutely known and certain and is strictly an aquatic in nature.  Only small difference is that it can be fresh water or brackish water.  So is the habitat of patriots in the organizations.  They lead the life of being a patriot, doing nothing in the organization.  They are more concerned about the organization.  Any change, even the growth of the organization can be a problem to them.  In corporate, patriots will see everything through the eye of suspicion and doubt and not with passion and vision. 

In true sense, the corporate patriots are like obligate parasites whereas professionals are more like facultative parasites in their behaviour.  The obligate parasites cannot survive without the given host whereas, the facultative parasites can easily move from one host to other and it always look for its successful survival.  They are strictly opportunist in nature.

Patriots hang onto the past whereas the professionals speak more about the future.  Unless right mix of past learning and sensible hope and forecasting is made, the organization may not grow.  Organization should facilitate its employees to evolve not just change.  Change in biology is always reversible.  Whenever, there is a reversible change, the past can exert its power and dominance on people.  Hence they resist moving forward.  Like a fully stretched rubber band, they will return back to the original position once the force is released.  Evolution is more often an all inclusive change which is irreversible in nature.

Discouraging patriots or encouraging the professionals should not be the work style the organization should plunge in the first place.  How to bring professional elements in patriot and patriotic elements in professional should be the approach the organization should engage at.