As an architect you should be able to give birth to a structure that will outlive your life time and also be cherished for generations to come.
The secret of legendary success is in successive greatness. In JRD and Ratan, the Tatas experienced successive greatness and thus produced legendary success. In Dhirubai and Mukesh, Reliance experienced successive greatness and thus produced legendary success. India experienced successively great finance ministers who contributed to its economic liberation. When sree Ramakrishna was succeeded by swami Vivekananda, it became a world movement. When Border, Taylor, Waugh and Ponting became successive great captains, Australia became the unquestioned world champions.
Successive greatness and continuity of leadership has been the sole secret of all legendary results, whether political or spiritual or industrial or arts. Study the history of any legendary success and you will discover successive greatness. So, one of the most important legacies every leader is responsible to create is to build more leaders and not mere followers. In working with the minds of people, we can enable them to continue from where we left. Ours ends can be their beginning. It is only through this continuity humanity will remain a revolving consciousness. God created me to create. I will create a legacy. When I leave, I will leave behind a legacy.
Man alone can immortalize himself by what he creates and leaves behind. Much after you and I are physically gone, you and I continue to live spiritually through the legacy we create and leave behind. In that sense, you and I, shall never die.
