Politicians all over the world are treating the survival of the planet as a survival of the fittest death game, or are merely playing an “I’m better than you”, “mine’s bigger than yours” game. Employees are still encouraged to see peers as competitors. We still operate in a world of bonuses and competitive rewards as though they were the only game. Nevertheless, it’s a hugely important question for the world of work – for the world – if the balance today has shifted too powerfully in one direction.
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Many times career breaks have come at just those times when I was enjoying connection without thought of advantage … for example, the time I was sharing my excitement in investigating the concept of charisma with a new acquaintance – and was suddenly offered a whole series of work on charisma with the Cabinet Office … the time when I was able to help a colleague at a difficult time, and through that connection was later invited into a successful collaboration that has lasted … the time when I was bored in a conversation but decided to focus with interest on the other person and then suddenly learned something that was immensely useful to me … you’ll have your own examples.Ĭooperation or survival of the fittest? Both clearly exist in nature. Where opinion was coming down heavily on the side of survival of the fittest, his book Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution tried to redress the balance. He discovered human societies where people shared with each other and animals cooperated to find resources to survive. Not long after the publication of The Origin of Species, Peter Kropotkin, a Russian Prince, undertook an expedition to Siberia, and found little evidence of competitive struggle. He just concluded from this evidence that natural selection favoured groups who cooperated. Is the shock because we are currently living on our planet as though survival of the fittest were the only story? It’s good to remember that even Charles Darwin wrote about cooperative and indeed loving behaviours in dogs, elephants, baboons and other species. We know about lions and wolves hunting in collaboration we know how animals stay in a family group to help raise siblings, we know about communities of bees and ants. However, the commentary still expressed a kind of shock that animals could be witnessed working together at all, when we already know that animals work together. A coral trout would signal the position of likely prey to an octopus by tipping onto its head and flashing white, allowing the octopus to reach into a crevice and flush the fish out – after which either the octopus or the fish won the prey.īlue Planet II showed behaviours never seen before in sea creatures and that was exciting. Different species were also observed to work regularly together. There was the clownfish, searching for a suitable surface for the female to lay her eggs, that received the assistance of his whole clownfish family to move a coconut shell into a suitable position. Time and again we were shown examples of underwater creatures demonstrating previously unseen behaviours of intelligence, subtlety and cooperation. So what’s so special about their ability merely to copy human sounds?īlue Planet II was an excellent antidote to lazy human thinking. We already know that whales communicate in sophisticated ways with each other.
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Work that one out!Īnother “What!?” was caused this morning by the excitement of BBC commentators at a demonstration of whales imitating human sounds. One political “what?” this week was news that senior doctors from overseas who’ve been appointed to fill key roles in over-stretched hospitals around the UK are being blocked from taking up their jobs by the Home Office because their NHS salaries are too low under immigration rules. Increasingly often these days the news bulletins have me scratching my head, furrowing my brow and muttering, “What!?” Most often it’s in the area of politics.
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“Survival of the fittest” is proved, signed and sealed. But are we ignoring an important part of the story?