By Kumudini Menda

Ants have always influenced and inspired creative and analytical minds from all eras and society. It has not only caught the interest of entomologists, biologists, agriculturalists, and other members of the science community but has proliferated in to the literature too!  

Ants are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae and are part of the folk stories in both African and American Indian mythology.  In the Aesop’s tale, “The Ant and the Grasshopper” showcases Ancient Greece’s insight of ants being persistent workers.

According to Lawson, a system analyst at Southwest Airlines, ants are sort of an analogy - simple rules produce complicated transactions and events and major structures. They inspire us to do the same thing in a little simulated world and symbolise very complicated processes. The structure of ant colony can be adapted to the service industry very well.  With all those little ants and with their mostly ignorant choices.. out of all that emerges a smart society!!!

According to Francis L.W. Ratnieks ant’s society is best known for its cooperation. They have amused mankind by the way they get down to the role they are deployed to, sometimes they even do multitasking if need arises!!  All this is incredibly done without the language,memory and visible leadership!! And in particular, how the simple parts of organisations interact to create the behaviour of the whole organisation!!

With the time, translator’s crucial role in Nation building has clearly emerged as they contentiously propagate the ever expanding knowledge and information thus responsible to bring in the social and cultural changes in society.

This process of dissemination of knowledge and latest information requires a very efficient networking and well coordinated team work and what can be the best then the ant colonies, the social creatures!! We translators can also learn a management lesson from this chitinious creature. 

We can look up to them to learn about the ‘social organisation’, ‘commitment for the cause’ and the ‘division of labour’, the best management model available in nature!

If we are willing to learn something from them, we must learn the well disciplined social ‘sense’ and ‘respect’ with unceasing dedication for the colony.
 
It is interesting to know that the abdomen of the ants contains two stomachs. One holds the food for itself and the second one is to store the food that is to be shared with other ants in the colony. By her anatomical architecture, the ants are made to serve the ‘self’ and ‘others’. They know it better that respecting and serving the colony is inevitable if one wants to live in a colony or social setup.  

We should follow the same principal at Modlingua Learning.  Every member here, must remember that they have to serve the organisation sincerely and only then they can ‘serve’ the self. By neglecting the ‘organisation’s wellness’ and our 'goal', we can never find any success either to our life or to our career. 

Reference taken from The Hans India website 

http://modlingua.com/interns/422-kumudinimenda-hindi-teacher-translator.html 

Writer Kumudini Menda is Hindi and English Language and Translation Intern at Modlingua, India's No1. certified translation and Language service providers based in New Delhi