Day 318 of wisdom
“The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.”
Benjamin Jowett
Getting things done is more important than getting accolades for things done. So many people always get entrenched in the mud of who gets the credit for doing what was done or who would get it for what should be done, failing to realise that whatever is worth doing should be done without any thought of being rewarded for doing what should be done. Good leaders concern themselves less of who get the credit for doing things, what they are more concerned about is that the thing that should be done is done.
Harry Truman once said, "It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit." What has been done so far will be just a tip of the iceberg, if we can think more of doing than who gets the credit for doing. There are so many things to be done, there are so many people who need our attention, there are so many lives to be touched, we must therefore do as much as we can in other to cause the changes we want to see in our world.
Great leaders are doers, but as much as they do, they also allow others do, they motivate and inspire others to do because, they are less concerned about who receives the credit. They are as willing to receive blames for things they even know nothing about as much as they are willing to receive credit for the ones they have done. As Indira Gandhi would say, There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. "Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there."
The world is in dire need of doers; people who will through their acts and deeds make the world a better place for others to live, thrive and be happy; people who would rather get busy doing than just talk about or think of doing. As Francois de La Rochefoucauld said, "... until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary by sense." A better future is created by todays deeds, and the best way to get things done is, just do it.
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