Leadership Up Close 9: Symbiosis

This magnolia needs the bee to reproduce. The bee needs the magnolia for nectar.

Both win…it’s a symbiotic relationship.

 

What’s your relationship with your organisation like? It’s a question worth asking yourself.

Is it:

  • Symbiotic (+/+)* beneficial for both you and the organisation
  • Commensal (+/0) beneficial for one, no effect on the other
  • Parastic (+/-) beneficial for one, destructive for the other
  • Amensal (-/0) destructive for one, no effect on the other
  • Synnecrosis (-/-) mutually destructive

 

I hope, for your sake, it’s beneficial for you.
No effect on you? We can live with that.
But anything destructive? Please don’t stay too long.

It’s not worth it…and you are.

Dr Michelle Pizer | Executive Coach and Organisational Psychologist