4th December 2024
Someone once said, “It’s nice to be important, but it’s more important to be nice.”
A famous industrialist once took two candidates for dinner. They were both graduates of the same university.
They had the same grades & were both geniuses.
When they finished dinner & walked out, the industrialist said to one of them, ‘You are hired’ & said to the other, ‘We won’t be able to proceed with you.
Thank you both for joining me for dinner.’
The young guy who was rejected, summoned the courage & said, ‘Sir, can I ask you something?
We never spoke about engineering, we never spoke about your product, we never spoke about the university, we only spoke general things.
Then, why are you hiring my friend & not me.’
The industrialist replied, ‘For two reasons.
The first is that your friend tasted the food first & then put salt. You put salt first & then tasted the food.
I like people who try things before they make changes.
The second & most important reason is that your friend was polite with all the waiters saying thank you & please. They were invisible to you.
You were only polite when you were addressing me.
A great leader is someone who will impact the organisation & doesn’t see hierarchy but only human beings.
The behaviour was the clincher.’
No matter how educated, qualified, talented, rich or cool you believe you are, how you treat people around you ultimately tells everything.
We create beauty with our attitude, our behaviour & our actions.
As Maya Angelou said,
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
Never forget, behaviour matters, make people around you feel good & stay blessed forever.