Yesterday, I attended my company's Christmas lunch held at Bars and Billiard in Raffles Hotel.
I was and in fact, have always been so taken by this 5 star hotel's colonial architecture, an iconic hotel in Singapore.
With a rich heritage to boot, you would never expect anything lesser than excellence.
Or so I thought.
While the entire place is superb, and a feast to the eyes, I'm sad to say that the food was less than fantastic.
The lunch spread was not all I expected. Truly disappointing.
Perhaps I expected too much. But hearing from quite a number of my colleagues on their thoughts about the lunch, it further affirms my perspective.
This experience spoke this to me:
Reputation can only take you too far. You have to be able to keep working to maintain your command of leadership in quality (and in everything else). You have to keep growing, keep learning, keep listening to feedback and innovate. You have to continue to explore new recipes, new additions and upgrade your seemingly working versions.
Inspired by these thoughts, I recall the words of Jesus telling His disciples about servant leadership.
Let me tell you how they are related.
He said that who is the greatest among them will be their servant. I wonder who among the disciples thought again of being the greatest.
We can cringe at this thought but this is something we can apply in our life.
You see if we continue to stand proud and hold on to the glory days, to lord it over all that we are the best because of the last pitches we succeeded in and a certain revolutionary product we invented, we will fade out... In time.
This idea isn't foreign to you.
You see this from the many companies and brands as well as leaders who fail to serve their industries and followers by seeking to understand the current needs of the now. They are now either phasing out or have become things of the past.
So choose wisely, friends.
Start serving if you want to be the best in your field.
God bless!
