Tomorrow is the International Day of Human Rights. I paused today and read the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. I am proud to say that I will be among the Occupiers tomorrow who read the Declaration aloud for all to hear. It is an important document, and needs to be heard.
I also paused to wonder, "What is our obligation to serve, as well as receive?" Yes, I remember well President Kennedy's call to "Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country."
One would think it easy to lose track of these sentiments in daily chores, whether in the board room or the janitor's closet. In fact, we actively participate in these sentiments every single day because we can ALL choose to be service businesses, no matter what we do.
I have no sympathy for the "little people" on Wall Street. They are not just doing their job. They chose those jobs, and there are few of them who didn't have strong suspicions that the companies they worked for were rotten. But they stayed on anyhow. If they got hurt, tough.
What I am seeing is that thousands of former employees in all kinds of service businesses are opting to run their own businesses. Our Service Business Business Plan is one of our most popular, and for good reason. People don't want to work for slime. They want to determine their own company policies. They want a business with dignity, one that respects human worth.
This sentiment hold true in virtually all businesses that we work with, whether it is catering or internet development. The theme that holds new entrepreneurs together is "integrity". We have ALL become service businesses, asking what we can do for our fellow human beings, and for our country.
p.s. -- It is a real bonus too that independent business people often earn more than "employees" of large corporations, but that's another post, another time.
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