Marinade Management
A study in the New York Times reveals that pickles go back to 2030 BC. Cucumbers brought from India helped start the pickling tradition in the Tigris Valley. Ancient sources not only mention the nourishing benefits of pickles, they claim that it has long been considered an element of beauty. Ladies and gentlemen; Cleopatra tied her good looks to a hearty pickle diet.
Americo Vespucci was a pickle seller in Seville, Spain, before going out to explore the New World. He loaded the ships with draft pickles, as he had worries about spoiling food and lack of healthy meals on long journeys. Hundreds of sailors also survived scurvy because Vespucci understood the nutritional benefits of pickles.
In Anatolian culture, information about pickles goes back to Central Asia. Today, it is known that all kinds of vegetables and fruits you can think of, and even anchovies in the Black Sea Region are pickled.
Pickles, which are perhaps a thousand kinds of recipes, are made at a temperature not exceeding 20 degrees in autumn in order not to spoil before ripening, and kept in a place without sunlight; It is prepared by adding rock salt, vinegar, lemon, garlic, and chickpeas to boiled-purified water to ripen immediately, and put them in glass jars, cube or plastic containers made of earth and close the lid tightly. About a month later, we say enjoy your meal …
As you can see, pickles, a complete organization, definitely a system, probiotics, treatment properties, chemical processes, fermentation… Are these scientific? Yeah! By harmonizing and combining more than one vegetable and fruit, you turn a process into flavor by directing them to the same purpose with all kinds of application methods. This is truly an art. If you don’t believe me, ask pickle lovers. Ask Clopatra, Americo Vespucci. Pickles also applies various strategies, has a mission of taste and health, and a vision of intense taste, isn’t it interesting!
There are countless information about the health benefits of pickles. Pickle; It is a probiotic, a powerful antioxidant, protects liver health, is good for ulcers and diabetes. Vitamin source pickles are beneficial for the digestive system. It loses weight, regulates blood sugar, helps digestion, strengthens the immune system, reduces cramps, prevents osteoporosis, removes flu and colds, resolves nausea during pregnancy, pickles, what more can you do, is a complete pharmacy. It is not known for now, or it has not been discovered, but let it be proven that it is an obstacle for covid-19 and provides protection, then see the taste of pickles!
Actually, my purpose is not to explain how to make pickles. To draw attention to how the principles and subtleties of management are similar to pickle making. So what, or what does it have to do with it? Maybe you can be right, but we say look from this angle! In the subtleties of education, for example, by asking children to give and spend money to explain the apparatus account, and to provide the ease, permanence and fluency of learning by shopping. You know the famous story of the people of Kayseri; water, vegetables, fruits etc. I mean that they want to learn the trade by selling and focus on the management of the business. Do not say that what you said is a complete pickle!
So what is management, does the management of pickles resemble scientific management? Management for me and according to many experts; I can say it is both a science, an art, and even a step forward and character. What a beautiful definition there is for management, “the oldest of the arts, the newest of the sciences.”
Yes, Management is a concept as old as human history. From the known history of mankind BC. In the historical and religious texts written in Egypt and Sumer until 3000’s, the establishment of social order and the creation of the works of civilizations show that it is the product of a collective effort. The construction of the Egyptian Pyramids and the Great Wall is not an ordinary organization and coordination.
What is management; Working through others (through vegetables and fruits), collaborating with people (a chemical harmony between vegetable, fruit, water (H2O), vinegar (acid), salt (Nacl)), resources at hand (making healthy, tasty food with these ingredients and storage and preservation of products) is the activity of realizing the purpose. To operate in a changing, dynamic (18–20 degrees temperature, dark environment (similar to Howthorne Experiments), providing efficiency and effectiveness for our health and meal.
Wonder how it looks like a marinade!
If we give a broad definition made by scientists about management: Management; It is a social activity that includes the planning, execution and control of an organization’s activities with the resources available to it to reach its predetermined goals.
Management activities are generally divided into 5 groups. Planning, Organization, Execution, Coordination, Control, ie Control. Let’s think about it like this: Are these stages involved in pickling or not? Not making pickles, not cooking, drying.
Look at the features of the management process;
Management is a Purpose-Oriented Activity (satisfaction, health, taste …)
Management is a Group Activity (water, salt, vinegar, tomato, pepper, cucumber…)
Management Activity Has Human Characteristics, (Who establishes the pickle?)
Management is a Division of Labor and Specialization Activity, (Grandfather-grandmother, mother-father and children)
Management is a Coordination and Communication Process, (coalition in which everyone participates in the family)
Management is a Power and Authority Activity, (established by the decisions of the best known)
Management Is A Rational Activity (meal, appetizer, sweetener, appetizer, medicine… how could it be more rational?)
Administration Has a Universal Feature (It is done with almost the same system everywhere in every period of history on earth)
Management Has a Cascading (Hierarchical) Feature. (Can it be called hıyararşi for water, salt, vinegar, cucumber (cucumber) pickles first under the command and command of the best knowing) Every part of the pickles smells like scientific management.
Here, different techniques are used at every stage of the management process. These are: Information gathering, research, analysis and estimation techniques, measurement and comparison techniques, planning techniques, motivation techniques, control techniques, organization techniques, communication techniques, coordination techniques. Is this all in pickling or not ?!
I make a claim that the most difficult of the management that has existed since the first man is self-governance. When you scan the literature, in general;
1880–1930 Classical (Traditional) Approach,
Scientific Management Approach (Frederick Winslow Taylor),
Management Process Approach (Henry Fayol),
Bureaucracy Approach (Max Weber),
1930–1950 Neoclassical (Behavioral) Approach,
Hawthorne Studies,
X and Y Theories,
The Argyrs Model,
Maslow,
1950–1970 Modern Approach,
System approach,
Management with Exceptions,
Management by Purpose,
Contingency Approach,
Strategic Management Approach,
From 1970 to Present (Post Modern Approach),
Total quality Management,
Lean Management,
Change Engineering,
You will come across.
I’ve observed that pickles overlap with all of them. As Nasreddin Hodja said, if you do not believe, you also look and review. You both refresh the information, scan the literature, and look at the event from a very different angle, and test the management in a real pickle experiment. What would you lose?