What difference will you make?
One of the guys in my Thursday morning men’s group asked the following question today:
“What will be different for you in 2010?”
I immediately became present to the difference this group has made for me – what a gift it has truly been. For the past 18 months, I’ve been showing up every Thursday morning to explore my relationships, my faith and myself. Our weekly conversations always invite me to make a difference rather than just accomplish something.
The New Year is a common time of reflection and promise for accomplishment. Did you reach your goal(s) for 2009? What do you want to accomplish for 2010? As customary this process is, perhaps what’s more familiar is realizing the majority of us don’t reach many of our goals.
Faith at Work
Earlier this week, I was walking to my Wednesday morning men’s group. About eight of us gather each week to read, discuss and explore our faith. Walking out my door I suddenly remembered I failed to get the key from the church office the day before.
Oh, cr#*! Oh, sh@&! Oh, (every expletive I could muster)! How are we going to make this work? It’s 35 degrees at 6am on a Wednesday morning, and there are seven other guys depending on me to open up the conference center by 6:25am. And most importantly, have the coffee ready.
So began my search – I figured there would be someone available at the church since the 6:30am Mass was soon to start. Or a sexton would be there opening up the rest of the church. Or by some miracle, the conference center door was left open by a previous guest. Predictably, none of these were the case.
Leadership is not about answers
What questions is your leadership team asking? Perhaps more importantly, what questions is your leadership team NOT asking?
Your organization’s ability to ask the “right questions” is critical to its success. Unfortunately, your business, like mine, is likely at the effect of the training and experience each individual has received for years through American academia and culture – the training called having the “right answer”.
We see it daily in our lives:
