Being clever or kind ?

I was watching a you tube video - jeff bezos talking to graduating class of 2009. Very relevant thought he left with - we are all gifted, with intelligence. But we have to exercise the choice to be kind. When I look at it from organisational point of view - so many of us, in our over enthusiasm to prove our intelligence, make a choice not to be kind. It can be called politics, brownie points, #$$ licking - what is in a name. The fact remains that we try to draw a larger line mostly by erasing lines drawn by predecessor, colleague or bosses. I have made that mistake and have been at the receiving end too. But life teaches you - most of the people who are at the top, are the ones who made that choice to be always kind with their intelligence. Ones who never cared for individual mileage but for organisational benefit. I look forward to surround myself with more and more of such people.