Putting public interest before personal gain Kyaw Thura Most, if not all, people are egocentric in spite of feeling reluctant to confess. Ego varies in degrees of intensity. It tends to become stronger when people go up through ranks. We are by nature loyal to our mother institution. When it comes to choosing between employers and customers, we tend to take sides with the former. It is intense ego that makes us all blind to justice. Leaders of all institutions need to shoulder a fiduciary responsibility. They should act in a fair, unbiased manner. They should put the interests of their people before their personal gain. Simply put, people want to retain their trust in their leaders. They want leaders who will act in the best interest of the public. They want leaders who will put public interest before their personal gain. They want leaders who will encourage transparency, integrity, competency, and accountability. The world has seen leaders who died many years ago but their names still survive. They wrote their own histories beautifully. All people in the world remember all of them for their sacrifices in public interests. Their names go down in history. It is quite easy to be branded as notorious. In other words, it just takes a single stupid act to receive bad reputation. On the other hand, winning public adulation and good reputation that will go down in history is a different story. A single generous act is never enough to win the hearts of people. All things considered, the fact that history will judge our own deeds is still many years away. Now is the time for all of us to start being nice to each other. In short, it would be better if we did not allow the history to repeat itself. In short, we should be nice to people on our way up because we will meet them on our way down for sure. Then the history will repeat itself. We will only have ourselves to blame then!
Posted on: Sun, 07 Sep 2014 09:34:03 +0000
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