The Green Horse
Amidst my busy schedule on Monday morning,
“Papa, look at my Drawing”, my 7 years daughter’s excitement made me look away from my laptop.
When I looked at her drawing, I saw a Horse like structure, that is filled with Green colour!
I paused for a while and told her that, “it’s nice drawing… I never seen a green horse”!
In reply, my daughter tilted her head and said, “I know, horses are brown or black colour, but it’s my horse. It eats grass, vegetables and runs in big green grounds … it does everything like other horses, because it’s my horse, it’s green in colour”
I gave her a thumbs up with a smile, held her chin and said, “It’s nice one and beautiful looking” and went back to my work and continued my ‘Email draft on Team communication’.
My daughter’s Green Horse was still running in my mind.
If I had told my daughter that, “There are no Green horses”, I would have missed her interpretation of ‘Her Green Horse’.
Moreover… my rational feedback would have killed her upcoming Blue Dogs & Purple Monkeys…!
May be most of us, have such green horse, it could in the form of Ideas/plan of action/different approach to a project/creative solution etc., these may just need ‘good hearing’ to understand their intent and may be such green horse may stand out because it’s difference.
Thinking this, I looked at my Email Draft and changed the subject to “Invite your suggestions: on ……. Issue, let’s connect to discuss at 4 pm today”
Now from ‘Email of directions, I invited recommendations from my team’.
Hoping to witness more Green Horses… spotting them with smile…. nourishing it to run well and winning Race with the team ??
Regards,
Dinesh. C
Enterprise Sales & Service | B2B Specialist
4 年Good one.. Food for thought!
Director & Head of Human Resources | HR Business Partnering, Employee Benefits
4 年Nice piece Dinesh!????
CEO at BrainTreeHR Consulting Pvt Ltd
4 年Wonderful analogy..Dinesh sir. so beautifully crafted. This is what absulately required to think differently and valuing those thoughts on our day to work life, I am sure we can see more such green horse in our organisation..
Ninedots, Organizational Learning |Coaching |Assessments
4 年All of us have our green horses and important for us to stay with them. We need some one to remind us often.
Head SAP & IT at Cycle Pure, N Ranga Rao & Sons Private Limited
4 年Wonderful analogy, agree too....