Corporate employees must learn how to hide their achilles heell and display their strength. Corporate success depends up on.....
What is Achilles heel? Does it have any relevance to corporate world? How innocent or naïve the employees are in the corporate world in exhibiting their Achilles heel to their boss or to others?
The reference of ‘Achilles’ heel/spot means the ‘weak spot’ of an individual that can be exploited by others to cause his/her down fall or defeat. ‘Achilles’ was a Greek mythological character, to make in invincible in war, his mother said to have dipped him in the holy river Styx. Since she was holding him on to his legs, the leg portions could not get dipped properly in the holy water and hence his that portion has become the weak spot for attack.
Many employees love to talk a lot with their bosses with an intent of establishing good rapport. In turn, the bosses also love to talk to the subordinates. More often than not, the subordinates love to share their experiences and their comments on their colleagues to the boss. Certain bosses entertain their subordinates to speak more about the same to get to know better about the organization. More and more revelation and sharing, the subordinates will be disposing and exposing their ‘Achilles spot’ to their bosses.
The entertaining boss and entertainer subordinate, both are harmful to the corporate.
How smart the subordinate should be? They can learn better from a snail or a centipede. How these organisms hide their weak spots when threatened. The snail nicely glides inside the shell it carries while the centipede coils and remains motionless to send a message to its enemy as it is dead or it is something else.
On the contrary, learn how a porcupine or a scaly anteater or a turtle hides their weak spot and display their strength in their normal living. Porcupine always exposes its spines, anteater its tough scaly body and so is the turtle. Whether there is threat or not, they exhibit only their strength not the weakness. Although these animals exhibit these behavioural responses for the purpose of defense or protection, the point is how smartly they hide their weak portion of their body, especially the head that can be attacked easily by a predator.
The smartness in hiding the weakness and displaying the strength is what one should learn to practice in corporate. Progressively, the people also must learn to work on their strength and stop worrying about the weakness. They should know their Achilles spot and area of strength. They also should know how not to expose the weak spot to others and how to engage in the area where they are strong.
To combat, to compete and to succeed in life, only strength will help and not the weakness. The employees also should know how to convert their weakness into strength. In nature, if one organism concedes to the fact that it is very weak, it would perish. Smart thinking and smart strategies, always co-evolve with weakness in nature, corporate employees should know this.
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