Good Is the Enemy of GreatSample

We Have a Responsibility

Jack Welch, former GE chairman and CEO says, ‘Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others’. People around us are hurting constantly. Depression kills more people than even cancer these days. People are entangled and enslaved in financial burdens, exorbitant loans, rat race, peer pressure, career ambitions, etc. It is not much different from the days of Moses where the Israelites were toiling under the brutality of the Egyptian slavery system.

The story of Moses starts with the new law in Egypt, which proclaimed that the male children of all Hebrew slaves should be thrown into the Nile River (Ex 2). God miraculously saved Moses and he ended up growing up in the palace of the Pharaoh. He was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in speech and action. He could have continued to be a prince and lived a life of royalty. Instead, he chose to fight for the rights of his fellow Hebrews. God chose Moses to lead six lakh Israelites into the Promised Land of Canaan. Instead of growing himself, Moses decided to grow others, when God called him. Moses gave up the crown to fight for the liberty of the Hebrew slaves.

In the corporate world, people are dying without a worklife balance. Outside it, and all around us, poverty, famine, illiteracy, corruption, etc. rule. As leaders, what is our corporate social responsibility in eliminating such evils?

As leaders, are we looking only at our own successes and simply ignoring the hardship our people are facing today? How are we mentoring, coaching and training others to lead happy and satisfying lives on earth? Jesus taught that whatever we do to the least of our brothers, we actually do to Him. It is not enough to be a good leader, we are called for greatness. Greatness comes only when we make a difference in the lives of people around us. For good is the enemy of great!

Father God, let us do good to all those who are hurting or in need around us and thus make a great difference in their lives. Amen