Wake Up and Shake It Up Post

While I'm not very good at keeping my own blog site current, I recently co-wrote a piece with Tanveer Naseer titled, "Is Your Leadership Serving Others . . . or Just Yourself?"

You can read it here at Shawn Murphy's leadership blog series called "Wake Up and Shake It Up."

The Measure of a Man or Woman

In his book titled, "Making Your Company Human: Inspiring Others to Reach Their Potential," Le Herron suggests that CEOs should be paid based on how fairly they serve their customers, their employees, and the shareholders. What is their reward? His answer was simple, yet important to repeat: "When you achieve the intangible result of helping people to open up and contribute their best efforts, it makes the tangible results, like revenue growth and market share, better and more likely."

He went on to say that for the "leader who tries to live in accord with the priciples of fairness and serving others," there is a greater reward. Le then shared the story of the day he retired and all of the associates at his company came together to present him with this poem titled, "The Measure of a Man":

A man's no bigger than the way he treats his fellow man.
This standard has his measure been since time itself began.
He's measured not by tithes or creed, high-sounding though they be;
Nor by the gold that's put aside, nor by his sanctity.
He's measured not by social rank, when character's the test.
Nor by his earthly pomp or show, displaying wealth possessed.
He's measured by his justice, right; his fairness at his play;
His squareness in all dealings made; his honest, upright way.
These are his measures, ever near to serve him when they can,
For a man's no bigger than the way he treats his fellow man.

Author Unknown

How do you measure success? Is it the way you treat others?