What's the point of life?

Phil Dourado has worked in leadership development for seven years, five of those as a Director of The Inspired Leaders Network. He is lead author of the book Seven Secrets of Inspired Leaders and author of The 60 Second Leader. Phil also founded TheLeadershipHub.com, a global community and development platform that has been described as 'like Facebook for leaders'.

"We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life." William Osler.

I just came across that and it's a reminder of something good leaders know and do - contribute and serve.

The ridiculous attempts to save 'bonus cultures' and other old-think approaches to life and the world - "my role in life is to accumulate and consume as much as possible" - that are going on all around us at the moment, may be the last throes of a primitivism we are moving away from, with the climate debate prompting us to shift how we think of our lives away from accumulating and consuming.

For leaders, Ken Blanchard puts it this way: "That we have too many self-serving leaders and not enough leaders who serve."

It's the move away from a scarcity to an abundance attitude that we are all inching towards (those of us who are comfortably off, that is) - from waking up thinking, "What can I earn/accumulate today to stave off...what, starvation?" to "What can I contribute today?"

As people know who love their work, when you go out determined to contribute, you find people queuing up to buy your services anyway.

Or am I a fanciful old hippy? What do you think?

Phil Dourado
Owner
The Leadershup Hub Ltd

Phil Dourado is giving two presentations around leadership and customer service at the FIA Conference on July 14th at Cheltenham Racecourse.

To find out more about the conference and to book your place with an Early Bird discount visit the FIA website or email flame@fia.org.uk.