Commenting on the 2010 FIFA 2010 World Cup in South Africa a month or so ago in a CNBC television programme, Mr Michael Spicer, Chief Executive of Leadership SA noted that the event was a catalist to "energising the human spirit' for South Africa. Yesterday, on August 4, 2010, Highveld Radio and its sister station in Prime Media, in partnership with Independent Newspapers launched one of the potentially greatest initiatives in South Africa, Lead SA.
The ingenuity of this campaign, which encourages everyone of us to take the initiative to do something that would contribute towards changing the world for the better, is that it does not ask us to look towards "our leaders" to show us the way, it asks each of us to take the challenge and lead and no task is too small. The beauty is that each of the"small things" has the potential to contribute towards a groundswell of positiveness that would create the South Africa which we have demonstrated as what we all want, a better country for all.
For the better part of this week, I attended a conference on mine safety organised by the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. The speakers spoke about their initiatives towards "zero harm" to all mine employees in the pursuit of their activities and the focus was on people. Very heart warming. Importantly they spoke about what changes in their own behaviors they had adopted to improve health and safety and not what others should be doing. They took responsibility in the same way that the Lead SA campaign is asking people to do. In essence, the focus was on people and their activities were not taken merely as part of their jobs but they seemed to be motivated by a greater purpose, focusing on people. Encouraging.
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