People tend to compare corporations to machines. I believe that companies have more gardens in themselves than machinery.
In a corporate machine, people seem to be just cogs in the apparatus. The cog should be repaired or substituted if it breaks down and fails. An engine in a mechanical device can be seen as a CEO without whose work a corporation won’t work efficiently in the long term. Still, I oppose comparing people to cogs in a device. I see people more as plants. A gardener (e.g., CEO) must help and take care of blossoming each plant and, in the final result, the whole garden. Clients come to the garden in the park to appreciate the gardener’s work and each plant. This is how the company garden makes profits.
Of course, as in all gardens, there can be weeds needed to be cut.
It is a time when the firm must sack an employee to grow. The sacking of an employee sometimes can also be a win-win situation both for the company and the man who has just been fired. The gardener must include the difference between soil, exposure to the sun, and water for his plants-employees. What’s suitable for one plant does not have to be good for another. The garden will blossom beautifully with the proper environment and focus on people’s strengths and talents.
We are not machines. We, the people, must be correctly taken care of to give back everything the best we can.
That’s why I believe when a company is more like a garden than a machine, it is a win-win situation both for employer and employee. I wrote this text on the 26th of June, 2022. Within one month, I will become a Financial Manager in one of the companies. Undoubtedly, managing people will be one of the most challenging things I have ever done in my financial career. I hope I will do it correctly for the company and other employees. If I do it perfectly, all sites, including the company, employees, and me, will win.
