So, I created this work flow chart for my job. It had everything that needed to happen broken up into days. It was beautiful and perfect. My team, however, had difficulty getting on board with it. Something about it didn’t work for them. They needed guidance and structure, but not ‘that’ guidance and structure. I hung in with my flow chart longer than I probably should have based simply on the fact that I created it. Today I realized it wasn’t working, brought in other people, and came up with something better.
Now, I could have begun penalizing my team for not flowing with MY flowchart, but I reverted to mission, got over myself, and came up with something better.
This is all just to say I came up behind a truck with a bumper sticker that read ‘Jesus died for sinners’ in traffic today. Now, anyone familiar with effective leadership should see that, in the Jesus situation, God clearly dug in because it was HIS FLOW CHART. Good leaders can’t be precious like that.
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