When the black dog starts barking on Mondays these are among the notes he strikes.
Ron Edmondson warns against trying to eliminate risk from leadership as a primary motivation for the following reasons:
Here’s what you have to accept:
It will be expensive – You’ll have to eliminate every thing which could go wrong. That will not be cheap to accomplish.
It will be time consuming – You will have to research all scenarios and answer all questions. That will take considerable time.
It may seem impractical – Getting to zero risk may never actually happen regardless of how hard you try. Risk seems to find its way back into the equation, in my experience.
It may be unrealistic– Life is a risk. Risk is all around us. If it involves people, time or circumstances, risk seems more realistic than no risk…to m I’m not saying it won’t, I’m just questioning how practical that really is and really whether or not that’s even leadership. Leadership by application involves risk.
He points out that not only is it expensive, but:
My personal thought, however, is that when eliminating risk is a primary motivation you may lose opportunity. Try to eliminate risk and the world and the best ideas may pass you by.
Read the whole post here.
Paul Tripp identifies five signs pastors are glorifying themselves. Which the black dog encourages us to do, but only makes him bark louder.
1. Parade in public what should be kept in private.
2. Be way too self-referencing.
3. Talk when you should be quiet.
4. Be quiet when you should speak.
5. Care too much about what people think about you.
Read Tripp’s explanatory content here.
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