Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Organization is Like a Parallel Circuit

Organization is like a parallel circuit. Each branch is akin to departments in a company/organization. Imagine below:

Voltage = Organization's vision

Current = Resources (for example, money)

Resistance = Talent

Justification to the analogy above:

in a parallel circuit, all voltage is equal in each branch, this means all of the departmental directions should be aligned to one common organization's vision, and JUST ONE. Voltage has another term to describe itself, it's called potential difference. Well, we know that, electrons must be acted on a potential difference so that they could drift from one end to another end. So, potential difference (p.d) or voltage is comparable to a vision that drive everyone to move towards one direction! Justified?

It seems like resistance can hardly be understood as talents, because the norm suggests that talents are the movers, change agents or doer in a company. However, in this context, we view every human as trouble-maker, anchoring on a philosophy "where there are human, there are problems". On the other hand, talents can be both a problem solvers and problem makers, depending on its "magnitude of resistance". Generally, you can assume, people of lower resistance as problem solvers whereas people of higher resistance as problem maker. In each branch is also another set of series circuit, where the capability of a department is measured in terms of its "resistance" of each talented individual. Sounds logical to you?
Highly adaptable talents = Rheostat (change themselves according to circumstances


Current, is rather a response to the arrangement of Resistors in the overall parallel circuit. This means, if you have high value of resistance, you take in more resource (current), with regard to Ohm's Law. Think about it, efficient people takes in little resources to accomplish the same task as compared to his less efficient counterpart. So, you will notice that larger current is being passed when going across a resistor, because efficient people don't need much resources. And the opposite is true as well. So, back to the previous point, arrangement of your people in a team comes rather important =)

Lastly, if the the combination of resistance is not right, you may not get the right "value of voltage", so, it seems to me that voltage can be seen as the measure of success (MoS) of an organization or a company. Talent is always the problem. It's always worth the time, efforts and energy to really think about which talents to be absorbed into your organization or a company, if you really want to achieve great success.

Happy Wednesday =)


Inspired by,
Parallel Circuit and Costing for Entrepreneurship

Idea Originated from:
Max (the world weirdest thinker, haha!)

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