Why I Choose a Green Spider!

The Creation of Aranya and Introducing the Spider.

Several years ago, I created my sole proprietorship firm, "Aranya Advisory & Media Services." The name is a mouthful, and I call it "Aranya."

I wanted to shorten it to "Aranya Advisory" and even "Aranya," but the legal and banking process is too painful. However, all this is irrelevant.

When I searched for a name, I stumbled upon a quote by Frederic M Perrin about spiders.

Teach them a spider does not spin a web. Spiders spin, meaning. Cut one stand, and the web holds. Cut many, the spider falls. With the web's fall, so too falls the spider. Break the web. Break the spider. So breaks the circle of life.

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The quote is fascinating and holds depths of meaning that unfold. I discovered the Catalan word 'Aranya,' which means spider, and the Sanskrit word 'Aranya,' which means forest. The connection between webs, connections, and nature appealed to me. I was lucky to find an excellent logo designer in Indonesia who created my logo: the green spider.

Anyone familiar with "Indra's web" will realize that the web nodes create deep connections. That's what the Internet is about—the connections between nodes.

Business Lessons Come from All Walks of Life.

You can draw business lessons from all walks of life. I am listening to a fascinating book, "Accounting for Slavery," (a link is at the end of this short essay), which begs the question: When did management science come to life? Was it with the last century's unproven and unsubstantiated 'time and motion' studies? Or did the accounting and control practices used by slave owners give birth to management techniques?

We will reject any such connections in our polite world of grand strategy, lofty leadership ideals, and formal boardrooms. However, it may be difficult to deny the connections if we break the barriers we place on our thought processes.

No one ought to deny the impact of the Industrial Revolution on the world's climate, on the extinction of species,

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To say that people weren't aware, from the first, of the Industrial Revolution's effect on nature—and on themselves—is to commit a falsehood.

Sara Barkat,?Earth Song: A Nature Poems Experience

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Life impacts business. Business impacts life. We rush to decide or are busy arranging presentations and trips for senior managers. Most managers have little time to think or pause and breathe. We don't apply our company's spiel to our lives. I was a corpulent, unhealthy person during my corporate days, and I was promoting health!

My Style.

After leaving the confines of my corporate office and taking time (years) to shed some unwanted baggage, I feel I can now communicate my ideas and thoughts in everyday language, with inspiration from many walks of life.

Will I be recognized as a respectable 'management thinker' someday? I don't know. Will my essays and writing bring me business? Well, I hope so! Time will tell.

I cannot write academic articles; they put me to sleep. They are excellent for insomnia. Let me share my thoughts and (small) management insights with you, albeit unconventionally.

Links

“Accounting for Slavery.” Caitlin Rosenthal. https://amzn.to/4bkP2xo

Frederic Perrin Quotes.? https://www.bestquotes4ever.com/authors/frederic-m-perrin-quotes

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