Ubuntu

Stumbled across this idea thanks to this article at Waving or Drowning?
Desmond Tutu explains ubuntu like this:

A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed.
(Wikipedia)

Any ideas as to how one person's benefit might be the benefit of all?