I'll be traveling and taking some vacation time through November
15th, so Purposed worKING will be revisiting some earlier posts until
then...
Consultants, which are everywhere it seems, are many times a function of
the principle that we just don't believe we have good enough ideas or
expertise inside of our organizations and that we must go outside of the
company to get what we need. It's the grass is greener on the other
side thing. So, consultants are brought in to tell us what to do and
give us their big ideas. How many times though have we sat around during
or after the consultants' presentations and say to ourselves
sarcastically, "Yeah, like tell me something I don't already know!".
What is clear about this, so many times, is that the ideas and the
expertise is already in the house, we just haven't figured out how to
unlock those or we have put constraints on allowing people the freedom
to express their opinions or implement their ideas. But, if someone
comes from the outside, they don't carry any baggage and they don't feel
any inhibitions to bringing forward their ideas, even though those
ideas may not be anything new.
We as believers know an account of a man
who was not listened to in his own hometown. I often think of the
people who were in Nazareth who missed out on being able to be up close
and personal with Jesus because they just couldn't see past the
familiarity of who he was. The same may be happening within your own
company today. Are there people who have the answers and the ideas but
we are looking past them because we are familiar or we don't listen to
them because we don't like the way they say it, or we have heard it
before? Today would be a great day to stop and see if you can recognize
what you already have inside your organization and see if there aren't
already people within your company who aren't yet being listened to, or
need to be heard. Maybe one of the areas we are to lead is in being the
person who can unlock those people and give them their voice!
Reference: Mark 6:1-6 (New Living Testament)
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