isn't IT a zoo!!!!

This post of mine is insprired from Animals.Animals from Pink Floyd is another excellent album. If you have not listened to it yet i would suggest you to. In this album Various groups in society are represented as different types of animals (Dogs as the businessmen, sheep as the powerless pawns, and pigs as the ruthless leaders).
The album was inturn inspired by a 1945 book , Animal Farms by George Orwell.
Have you ever thought what kind of animals are present in our day to day work lives.

If not let us discuss them :

Goat : The ScapeGoat

The word "scapegoat" has come to mean a person, often innocent, who is blamed and punished for the sins, crimes, or sufferings of others, generally as a way of distracting attention from the real causes.

http://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/s/scapegoat_gifts.asp

In a typical IT organization there are people who have virtually tagged themselves as scapegoats. Its good to hire a few of scapegoats in your team. These scapegoats can come handy at times when needed. Please note that scapegoats should be used with caution. If the sin or mistake you commited is too small its good to take the blame. Scapegoats should take the blame for large unpardonable crimes commited in your team.

So, are you going to have Goat curry tonight ?

TorToise and Rabbit:

Remember when you joined a company you were told by HR that .."On end of this term your performance will be judged and you might be promoted". Ok, now what this really means is , "we will see how you performed compared to all other people in your team or your company". I think now you get it. As long as you are not as stupid and over confident as rabbit in the story, it really pays to be a rabbit while racing with tortoises.

http://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/a/aesop_s_fable_gifts.asp

So be sure to include lot of tortoises in your team. This will really help when there is performance review. Since performance review is not How good you performed ? But how bad others performed.

Grasshopper and Ants:

http://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/g/grasshopper_bugs.asp

Remember the story where a grasshopper who has spent the warm months singing away while the ants worked to store up food for winter. When winter arrives, the grasshopper finds itself dying of hunger, and upon asking the ant for food is only rebuked for its idleness. If you are a Grasshopper you need lots of ants in your team. You can spend all your time before the project deadline attending all unnecessary personality development, and time management trainings which your organization provides for free. Remember you "all" are a team. When the project fails it wont be blamed on you alone It will be blamed on whole team which consists of ants as well.


There are many more types in animals there . Please wait for the part 2 of this article.....