Ahhh, true…

“A wise man once said, ‘When I was a young man, I admired clever men. Now that I am old, I admire kind men.’

I think I know what he meant.

Clever people are generally self-centered and self-serving. They are quick to find the easy answer, the path of least resistance. They amuse the crowd with their quick wit, but they seem somehow to lack compassion.

Kindness, on the other hand, wears well. Genuinely good men and women may not be flashy but over the long haul they always prove their worth..” 

That’s Richard Exley and I think he’s on to something.

Our business could use a few more stories about kindness and compassion to our own employees.

Like the NLF’s Cincinnatti Bengals, who not only kept Devon Still on their roster so he would have health insurance, they found a way to support his 4 year-old daughter, Leah, in her fight against a deadly cancer. You can read her story HERE.

She begins radiation treatments tomorrow.

We must have some stories like this in our industry, surely.

In a business this huge, we must have a few stories about a group, or CEO, or station doing what’s right, standing by an employee in the midst of a desperate fight for survival, putting kindness and humanity before profit.

How sad for us if we don’t.