Casualties of war ...

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As the parable above describes, the casualties of war between elephants would be the mousedeer.

How true is this? I found that very true, least from my experiences. Companies today have become more lean and to this effect, many departments are closely interdependent on each other's progress and working together to minimize resource wastage.

Ideally, this is the model for competitive times, but this only hold true when people cooperate or remain professional, which in my definition, means do not bring in the personal dimension; feelings, people or factors. Unfortunate (but true), to err is human and otherwise is professional.

But in the theory of management, to err between 2 people is fine, however that becomes a hassle, burden and even hazardous, when the downlines of the 2 people suffer as subsequence to this abominable squabble. This defeats the business sense and bring down the cooperation and objective of remaining lean within organizations.

It's like a room full of gold, with 2 leaders & 8 other followers. Assume the leaders are 3 times larger than the followers (& assume the followers have no allegiances). If the 2 leaders start fighting between each other to grab as much gold as possible, the followers will be trampled immediately, unless they shadow the movement of a leader, which will protect them from calamity, which I name as follower-ship. But, if you are in the way of another leader and if your leader does not defend you, you will be trampled upon anyway.

I guess this is something people cannot escape from work, as we are merciless (if unlucky) to be under tyrants, yobs or spineless idiots. Your survival depends entirely on avioding being trampled upon, being blamed, and mostly, undefended by your boss (which defeats the purpose of management ownership, unless you have acted like an idiot, which no boss should shoulder). Of course you are lucky if you end up in a decent company, nice, mature & caring boss. If.

Rest my case.