As the saying goes - “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”
No matter how progressive one thinks himself to be, it is not truly proven until he or she works collectively in group operations with others.
Organizational Success requires commitment, sacrifice, humility and maturity. Organizational success requires us to grow beyond seeing our people as economic opportunities and mature into the actual service of our people that creates long term activity and success.
Last weekend I spend time visiting an organization in Chicago, incorporated 33 years ago by three men. The Coalition for Remembrance of Elijah Muhammad was founded by Brothers Munir Muhammad, Shahid Muslim and Halif Muhammad.
At their 33rd Founders’ Day celebration, it was their first without Brother Munir Muhammad who departed this life last year. Yet despite the loss of this charismatic leader, the organization continues to move forward in service of their long ago established guiding principles. Therefore, the remaining co-founders and the current members continue to work with vigilance in service to those principles.
This is organizational success.
It is good that so many of our people are entering business and enterprise. Entrepreneurship is good. But unlike those who suck the economic blood of our people in urban centers wherein we dominate in numbers, we must see our people for more than the economic opportunity that we are. We must look to the needs of our community and work diligently and collective in service of those needs.
The shop owners in our communities often do not live in our communities. They receive our economic wealth through our consumption and spending and bring those resources to their own organizations and communities in service of themselves.
We cannot change the condition of our communities alone as individuals. We must work collectively.
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