Topics:<\/b> Ambition; Comparisons; Competition; Contentment; Coveting; Desires; Envy; Greed; Human Nature; Jealousy; Money; Pride; Prosperity; Riches; Service<\/p>\n
References:<\/b> Proverbs 14:30; 27:4; Luke 9:25; 12:15; 17:18; 2 Corinthians 10:12\u201318; Galatians 5:26; 1 Timothy 6:6<\/p>\n
I am talking with the head of a mighty American corporation. We\u2019re in his window-lined office, high in midtown Manhattan. The view\u2014silver skyscrapers stacked one against another, dense, fine-lined, sparkling in the sun\u2014is so perfect, so theatrical. It\u2019s like a scrim, like a fake backdrop for a 1930s movie about people in tuxes and tails. Edward Everett Horton could shake his cocktail shaker here; Fred and Ginger could banter on the phone.<\/p>\n
The CEO tells me it is \u201cannual report time,\u201d and he is looking forward to reading the reports of his competitors.<\/p>\n
Why? I ask. I wonder what he looks for when he reads the reports of the competition.<\/p>\n
He says he always flips to the back to see what the other CEOs got as part of their deal\u2014corporate jets, private helicopters, whatever. \u201cWe all do that,\u201d he says. \u201cWe all want to see who has what.\u201d<\/p>\n
The CEO is a talented and exceptional man, and I think afterward that he might, in an odd way, be telling me this about himself so I won\u2019t be unduly impressed by him. But what I think, instead, is that it must be hard for him to keep some simple things in mind each day as he works, such as a job creates a livelihood, a livelihood creates a family, a family creates a civilization. Ultimately this CEO is in the civilization-producing business. Does he know it? Does that give him joy? Does he understand that is probably why he is there?<\/p>\n
This man creates the jobs that create the world in which we live. And yet he can\u2019t help it; his mind is on the jet.<\/p>\n
\u2014Peggy Noonan, John Paul the Great <\/i>(Viking, 2005)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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