In 1928, a British scientist named Sir Alexander Fleming made an interesting discovery, while he was working in the laboratory.
Fleming discovered that a fungus which he cultured inside a petri dish killed all bacteria around it. He was puzzled.
He announced his finding to his colleagues, who were equally baffled with this interesting discovery. After carrying out series of experiments, they arrived at the conclusion that Fleming had discovered the world’s first anti-biotic!
The scientists succeeded in isolating the micro-organism, which had the ability to exterminate bacteria. They called the new ‘wonder’ micro-organism Penicillium notatum. It was from this micro-organism that they eventually synthesized penicillin, an anti-biotic.
Penicillin was used extensively during the Second World War that occurred between 1939 and 1945, to save lives of wounded soldiers, who would have died from even simple infections. It is still the first choice anti-biotic in fighting infections due to its broad-spectrum activity against other fungi, bacteria and viruses.
If Fleming had kept his discovery to himself just to get all the credit, he might not have been able to unravel the mystery. Team work helped to shed more light into his finding and he ended up getting the glory as well.
Fleming’s case can be applied in a typical workplace setting. Even though people are assigned different tasks, there should be synergy among the staff to create the desired results for the organisation, which is more profitability and growth.
Since no man is an island of knowledge and ideas, sharing ideas in the office would help an organisation to move to greater heights.
Regards.
Timawus I.
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