29 January, 2021

The one and the many!



 Is one Lily lost in the confluence of the many!

Although the features are common for all the flowers in this collection, I noticed differences in the filaments and shades of colour.

This is a reason for stress for many at work place! Am I just one another person among all the group of nurses, laboratory technologists, ward staff, doctors, etc!

Most people respond to his positively and create their distinct imprint and impart that as a unique contribution to the group. Often such people get noticed and acknowledged.

There are some who make their presence by negative responses: come to work late, disregard good practices, be critical and even foster gossip... 

It is prudent to expect this behaviour from some in any group and avoid giving negative feed backs, which is what they wait for! They then might thrive on the sympathy for having been corrected!

A work place is a complex place. Most places have a hierarchy of supervision. The leading person often gets feed back from those in supervisory role and depend on those opinions. The supervisors are also people who can carry prejudices or incomplete view of the situation. 

Any person in a leading role has to carry a line of communication with every person in spite of the supervisor's feed back. 

This saves a group or an organisation from clusters of like minded people subgrouping and thereby loosing the confluence of the many for a unison spirit!

When people gather at work, they have two orientations- one which is a person's  own work attitude and ethos and the other the existing ambience of relationships and responsibilities at work. It is only when they blend  the work setting is life giving to all. 

As I observe and study this phenomenon, I become even more convinced that a person in a leading role does well if he or she is in a serving role, no matter how much the rest might trivialise it or misuse that style to their advantage!

The cluster of flowers gives a collective appearance, but each flower is still distinct and colourful!


M.C.Mathew(text and photo)


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