While on my early morning #run a few weeks ago, I saw a tree #blossoming but at the same time a large portion of the tree had been eaten by termites.
However, as someone who is interested in #organizational #sustainability and #designs, I began to think about how #nature is amazing and how this is applicable in our varying #organizations today.
While running I began to think of the below;
- A lot of organisations have something thing working for them, this is what most customers sees.
- A lot of organizations have something challenging that they are trying to deal with. Could be old tech stack, challenging market dynamics, competition, etc
- Organizations will continue to need talent whether the case is one or both of the above.
I term the part being eaten by termites as the challenging and most difficult part of organizations and the picture below circulating via social media for a while now give some context to how it applies to organizations. Everyone sees the glamorous APIs and Frontends (things blossoming) but most may not be able to estimate the workings or struggles of the back-end.
However, on concluding my run, I saw another similar tree (attached to this article) and decided to take a picture but at this time, my thoughts were fully formed enabling me to share the below to my connections and followers;
- As #leaders we must deliberately work with our team to improve #technical #debt with #talent #density. According to #Garner, 80% of technical debt will be architectural technical debt by the year 2026, so you may take technical debt as part of the organizations being eaten by termites.
- As #leaders be have to #develop a #pipeline of #talent. I saw a tweet recently where it was alleged that #Nvidia is having a problem where all their engineers are retiring because their stocks options are now worth $10-20M. Whether it is due to stocks or other reasons, people will leave so we have to be prepared.
- As #employees let us focus on dealing with challenges to enable the #organization #blossom and grow individually while at it. Every organization (every tree) has its challenges.
- Grow irrespective of the challenges.
- Share your thoughts in the comments section.
Interesting viewpoint. It's amazing the things the mind can construe by observing nature. The fact that the entire universe is just one learning and thriving ecosystem cannot cannot be overemphasised; and nature is the best teacher, the classes are free for the curious mind. Thanks, Patrick. #leadership #learning #ecosystem #sustainability #nature #thriving #curious
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10 个月Insightful analogy. It's good to be prepared. My training has made me to always have a back up plan in anything, I mean EVERYTHING. This will help in organisational sustainability both for human resource and technology stack
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10 个月I like the the "every organisation has its challenges". Only last week, I repeated same to a colleague in the office. The only difference is the quantum of such challenges and how they are being tackled; either fire brigade style or systematic, which inadvertently yields better results in the long run....think sustainability.