The one liner used so often with many meanings is…………….let’s see if you can figure it out.
It can mean responsibility and lack of responsibility at the same time. It causes the loss of a job and can add to a promotion in the same breath. It causes thankfulness and anger at the same time. It denotes authority and lack of authority at the same time. It is helpful and argumentative at the same time. And the list goes on and on…Do you have it yet?
“I TOLD HIM.”
But, my friends, did you follow up or just simply walk away? Why is it that we clamor for responsibility and want the title but we do not wish to truly be the servant and follow up in the teaching process to make someone better, not only on the job but also in life skills.
Do you think employees see our lack of responsibility? Do you think they talk with the other employees?
We love blame rather than personal liability, don’t we?
Who teaches us our responsibilities? When we are taught, are we truly management material whereby we can prevent problems rather than solve them on a consistent basis. We think that we are such good managers when we solve a problem when the problem has been staring us in the face for quite some time – we just overlooked it, did not see it, did not care, or hoped that it would go away.
It’s really not that bad – forget it – such is life – these things happen – why be concerned about it –
Psalms 8:4….What are human beings that you are mindful of them, mortals that you care for them….
Being a servant means to look at things as they are now and realize that there are ways to make these things better, thus bettering the lives of our fellow workers. We, without thinking, help someone to do better, help someone to see what we see, we help someone by listening and we help someone by telling them there is a better way – this better way is difficult at first, but the results are permanent to those who experience this kind of attention.
Do you give attention to everyone?
Now, this is a discussion for another day.
Blessings.