Jo and I can not wait for the new season of The Office. This show is so amazingly funny. It can push the lines and step on toe's...but I like the idea. Here is a link to an article on the new season... if you Office junkies care to read. Hint: the first few episode are an hour long :)
Okay on a darker note and following the theme of a work place. How do you handle someone who does not take stuff seriously or wants the "gold" now? How do you handle this in a church environment? I find myself all the time stepping back and trying to face reality of the fact that you have to plow the field before you can eat the food. You have to shuffle the sand, grime, and all the other junk before the Gold appears.
My question is...how do you handle a person who just does not get that? How do you wake them up to reality? At, times... how do I wake myself up to that reality...? So far my conclusion to this question is to just let them hit rock bottom. Is this right? Just treat them like you would anyone else at the company/church and they will eventually jump on the work line or leave the company and eventually hit "rock bottom"?
Fortunately, at this time it is not my job in any environment to handle this. I have been thinking about it a lot lately. Hopefully, it will be my job one day to be that kind of leader in my career. In the mean time... these kind of topics worry me and are my flaw. I have to much compassion towards people sometimes.
My question to those leaders is how do you reject these people....the ones that want it all now but just do not get the process? To gauge the fine line, to me, seems so hard to do.
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