POWER OF DOING THE RIGHT THING

 



“It’s not always easy to do right thing.

But, doing the right thing makes you strong.

It builds character.”

Queen Latifah

 

Harshita*, who is just completing her twelfth standard reads my blogs regularly. Yesterday, she messaged me, asking if I could recommend to her some books (for the beginners) on business management. Obviously, she is planning to take up a management stream, such as BMS of BBA.

Yes, I did recommend to Harshita several books. But, one thing kept haunting me: Should not a good manager be first a good human being? In other words, should one not learn to manage oneself before one learns to manage large corporates?

One of the many fine lessons, which I would not expect any management school to impart, is that lesson called – ‘the sense of doing the right thing.’ It’s a universal value and almost every home, school or religious center tries to inculcate it quite early in our lives. Learning the value of ‘Magic Words’ -  like ‘Thank You’, ‘Sorry’, ‘Please’, ‘Excuse Me’ etc., or sharing our tiffin boxes or toys with our friends, or the value of cleanliness, forgiveness, honesty and empathy – yes, all these human values (or, call them moral values) are all linked to that one basic value called ‘Doing the right thing’ …

I call it ‘call of the conscience’!

As Queen Latifah says, it’s not always easy to do the right thing. But, it makes you strong, and it builds your character.




So, I wish to advise a young one, who aspires to become, one day,  a fine Corporate Manager, to develop this sense of doing the right thing in life. At each step one takes, the situations call for this character strength. Yes, I wish to remind young ones, that it can be developed without reading management books or attending seminars or Master Classes at great management institutes.

To me, building character and building one’s personality are same as learning the skills of business management… 






I wish to tell this, today, to young Harshita…

 

*Name changed

 

GERALD D’CUNHA

 

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