“Try
not to be a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.” – Einstein
I compiled an email list of
endorsements of few global leadership gurus including their assistants and
affiliated institutions to approach them for endorsement for my upcoming book, Sutras for Smart Leadership – Lessons for
Leaders. I sent the requests through
emails. I have received a mail from
Celia Tucker who is the Bookshop Manager of Ashridge Library that she had searched
from the web to get the email id of the global leadership guru I was looking
for but she could not get and informed me the same. I was unhappy to receive a
negative response but I was happy that someone (Celia Tucker) who is unknown to
me responded promptly with courtesy. These days, people don’t find time to care
for the mails of others. However, I found an exception in my life where Celia
took pain to respond promptly with courtesy. Subsequently I shot another mail
to Celia requesting for email ids of few international publishers as I recognized
from Celia’s email signature that she is associated with library. Celia is kind to provide couple of addresses
of global publishers and also advised me to search Google and approach authors
directly. Although I know the same procedure I appreciated her positive
attitude to take time to respond.
I thanked for her mail, initiative and
positive attitude to respond. I also expressed my gratitude as nobody usually
takes time to respond. I also asked her if I could help her in anyway as a
reciprocal response. She politely declined my offer of assistance. I have
decided to write a post on Celia’s kind gesture so that my readers can get
inspired from her initiative, positive attitude and a great heart.
People often think that they have to
help others only when they are helped by others. If everyone thinks in that way
there will be nobody to add value and make a difference in this world. Hence,
hereafter, if someone seeks for assistance and if you can extend in whatever
the little way then you really made a difference. Mother Teresa rightly
remarked, “We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in an ocean,
but the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.”
Professor M.S.Rao
Founder, MSR Leadership Consultants,
India
Where Knowledge is Wealth
Email: profmsr7@gmail.com
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1 comment:
Dear Professor
Great post!
Thanks for taking your time to pen about Celia. It is very rare to find such kindhearted people in the present world.
We need more such Celia's to make a major difference in this world.
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