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It’s been around a fortnight while joined my new office. My partner and I are the newly recruited in the team.  My product head, two producers and my partner were in the meeting. He was on board and explaining about the new product details. Once the discussion has been over, he started making some hierarchical diagram structure on the board. Our discussion was over and we were trying to figure out what could be it all about in those diagrams. He then starts naming the top of our organization structure CEO, CTO, COO, Product Head, Producer and then finally we were on last bottom of the diagram. Honestly, it looks like a biological food chain diagram which I read in biology classes during the high schools. But it just opposite of it, Lion (CEO) was on top of the diagram here. He told this is the hierarchical diagram of our organisation and according to this we report to above concerned person. I asked why suddenly we need to know all about this. You are our boss and we know to report you. He then told us look to this office now.

It is an open stadium ground means open office. I can see every faces of organisation person here. No cabins and all, unlike I had in my earlier office. I know everyone by faces, but don’t know the name and designations. He explained that tomorrow if any top person you see near of you and it is because you don’t recognise him earlier. You could make any mistake at least in pantry. Like you told the CEO hey can you please pass this paper cup to me? So just to avoid this situation you must have to know them.

I replied if this is the issue why not we just have a formal 5 minutes get together in this meeting room instead of drawing them on board. I’m sure you cannot draw their faces on board with this marker. Still the problem of recognition cannot solve by this. He smiled over me – You will be recognised one day but with your works not by this diagram here in board.

In real life people want to be recognised by the word they speak, they forget the real motto of recognition in life. May be the world change, but last year when India won the Cricket World Cup 2011 and Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Captain of Indian Cricket Team) calmly walks behind the team. He didn’t crave for the limelight. He let Sachin Tendulakar (elder batsman of team) take the centre stage. That’s the kind of attitude makes people recognised as leader or towards the society. That’s what meant to be Recognition.