SUCCESS
Three hundred years before our era, Alexander the Great led a forced march across a hot and desolate plain. On the eleventh day, he and all the soldiers still with him were near death from thirst. Alexander pressed on. At midday, two scouts brought him what little water they had been able to find — it hardly filled the bottom of a helmet. Their throats burning, Alexander’s men stood back and watched him enviously. Alexander didn’t hesitate. He turned the helmet over and poured the water on the hot sand at his feet. Then he said, “It’s of no use for one to drink when many thirst.” They desperately needed water– quanities of it — when Alexander had but a few drops. So he gave them the only thing he did have: inspiration. That’s leadership.
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