“I hope all the leaders of the world can try and do good” Abdullah Kurdi says a year after his two sons and wife drowned trying to flee Syria.
A year ago this image of the limp dead body of his 3 year-old son Alan, shocked our minds and grabbed our hearts as we were exposed to desperate plight of the refugees fleeing war-torn Syria. And while the image has all but drifted from our minds, for Abdullah the heart-break of losing his family seems as real today as it was a year ago.
“I hope all the leaders of the world can try and do good,” he says “that the wars will stop and people can go back to their normal lives.”
And while his cry is to world leaders, there is a sense in which his cry for hope sits with all leaders.
It is the responsibility of all leaders to do good!
If you lead in any way, you can impact the world by doing good. You may not solve the Syrian crisis, but you can bring hope to the people you help.
That’s what intentionally doing good does.
It brings hope.
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As a leader of a business whose vision is “People Matter ∴ Do Good”, I’m reminded of the proactive nature of doing good. As I go about my days at work, opportunities to do good rarely present themselves to me, rather I need to seek them out.
Doing good is not something we stumble upon.
We need to go looking for it.
