BEYOND SUCCESS
By Hazri Rohilio I was conducting a leadership coaching group session when a bright, curious young leader in the crowd asked me; “ There are many successful people who do not practice virtuous deeds, so how do we make out of that?”. Then, another participant followed up with this question - “In our extremely competitive world, where would that leave us if we are too kind and compassionate?” Just let me share with you the context in which this question came about. In one of the group leadership coaching sessions I was conducting, I threw to the group a lot of leadership concepts and virtues, which included taking the high moral path, avoiding pre-judgment, leading by example, having empathy and the virtues of vulnerability and so on. Clearly, it struck a chord with what some of the young leaders were facing in their real lives. To reframe this, what they were concerned of was being left behind or disadvantaged, if they practice these virtues while other...