Seth Godin, best-selling author and marketing guru, published a blog post today titled “The Sad Irony of Selfishness” that explains how success is best achieved through selfless behavior. He writes:
More often than not, the selfish person is insecure, fearful and filled with doubt. The selfishness springs from his belief that this is his only good idea, his last dollar, his one and only chance to avoid failure. […] The irony, of course, is that selflessness (not selfishness, its opposite) is precisely the posture that leads to more success. The person with the confidence to support others and to share is repaid by getting more in return than his selfish counterpart.
Paul Misir's selfish behavior may be causing him to feel trapped inside his own self-made cage
People often think of selfish acts as conscious acts. But for a person who lacks self-awareness, are such decisions made consciously? Did Paul Misir fully understand in those moments the difficulty that he would cause for employees when he mistreated them? Regardless, his poor treatment of employees is wholly unacceptable, and his selfish behavior is likely to lead to failure.
There are a lot of problems arising from Misir’s unethical conduct. One solution may be to finally set that bird free.
* * *
