One day, it seemed that Hands in a wall clock were talking to each other. The Hour Hand said, ‘my heart beats 24 times in a day’. The Minute’s Hand said, ‘my heart beats 1440 times in a day’. The Second’s Hand said, ‘my heart beats 86,400 times in a day’. Yet all the three meet only twice a day – when the clock sounds 12:00, and that also for a second.
The Hour said, though my heart beats less, I am the first one to be recalled. People say Hour – Minute and then Second. The Minute said, I am second, as my heart beats more than Hour and less than Second. The Second proudly said, I beat the most, let you think what you want to think.
The Hour and Minute were quick to comment – ‘And you make a lot of noise and disturb people throughout day, and even in the night.’
In Corporate world, the theory of Clock applies in all spirits.
There are employees who work like Hours – silent and dedicated. They do not worry about any thing as they know they would be the first one to be consulted for any assignment.
Then there are employees who represent Minutes – who work but make a little noise as well about themselves. They may not be as efficient as the Hour, but they represent second line of action. Their survival is completely dependent on Hour’s category of employees, though they are Plan-B of the organization.
And then come the employee who represent Seconds. They make more noise than their work. Their survival is completely dependent on Hour’s and Minute’s category of employees.
No doubt, an organization is never complete without this amalgamation of three kind of employees, like the time in a clock is incomplete without the three Hands.
Yet, in all this we forget the ‘Clock’, the Organization, that keeps the Hands / Employees together.
The trouble starts when the Clock thinks itself as ‘almighty’, and cultivates this misconception that it controls and rules the ‘Time’. That is where it does the mistake. Such Organizations also perish, or acquired, or dumped as junk, and sometimes the junk is beyond repair.
Then then the Hands Shake - a new Clock hangs on the wall, but the time remains the same.
Once someone said, ‘no one is indispensable in this world’, how true.
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