Leave It Better Than You Found It
The Japanese fans at a FIFA tournament cleaned up their section at the end of the game? Why? “They wanted to leave it better than they found it,” says Vignesh Markandan, currently Vice President at Hitachi Digital Service, a company committed to social innovation. Our opportunity as leaders and human beings is to “learn as much as we can and apply it as best we can,” so we can be a contribution to those around us, including our environment. Vignesh deeply resonates with Hitachi’s mission, which is about harmony, sincerity and pioneering spirit. “As Ghandi said, our core priority as a company is our client.” Meeting the client’s objectives creates harmony. We need to be deeply honest along the way where our challenges and weaknesses are and address those using our creative, pioneering spirit. “The amount of times your heart pumps is finite,” muses Vignesh, “The amount of learning you can do is endless…I learn from everyone and everything around me.” Did you know that flowers attract bees by emitting an electrical signal and stop emitting once they have been pollinated? How is nature teaching us how we can live more in harmony with ourselves, each other and our environment?
