Comments on: Taken For Granted http://jamesgiroux.ca/adventure/taken-for-granted/ Empowering people to discover the life, passion and adventure of following Jesus. Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:21:14 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Matt http://jamesgiroux.ca/adventure/taken-for-granted/comment-page-1/#comment-37 Matt Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:03:13 +0000 http://jamesgiroux.ca/?p=171#comment-37 My one counter to this is not everyone is a leader, and those working underneath you may not be leaders. Not that their role is any less important. They likely have skills, like skating, that you don't. But leadership is not where they need to ever be. Take for example a hockey coach. The coach doesn't need to be a great skater, great shooter, or puck handler, but he needs people working for/underneath him who are. If he wants to win he needs people who aren't like him. What the coach offers is leadership and an intimate understanding of the game(in most cases unlike any of the players on the team). With the coaches understanding and the players individual skills they make up a great team that can win hockeys games. The sum of the parts is what makes the team great. Those without leadership skills may not need to understand what you do, but the value behind it. Another example would be the body, a hand will never be a foot and an eye will never be a mouth but each part is valuable. And with this in mind I think a role of a leader is not always to make other leaders, but to instill the understanding that every role is of equal importance and to help each member grow in their position. Back to skating, your feet turning into a brain would not make you a better skater, but it is the coordination of each part; growing and learning and working together that will eventually make a better skater. I didn't intend to be so long, but anyway those are just my thoughts. My one counter to this is not everyone is a leader, and those working underneath you may not be leaders. Not that their role is any less important. They likely have skills, like skating, that you don’t. But leadership is not where they need to ever be.

Take for example a hockey coach. The coach doesn’t need to be a great skater, great shooter, or puck handler, but he needs people working for/underneath him who are. If he wants to win he needs people who aren’t like him. What the coach offers is leadership and an intimate understanding of the game(in most cases unlike any of the players on the team). With the coaches understanding and the players individual skills they make up a great team that can win hockeys games.

The sum of the parts is what makes the team great. Those without leadership skills may not need to understand what you do, but the value behind it.

Another example would be the body, a hand will never be a foot and an eye will never be a mouth but each part is valuable. And with this in mind I think a role of a leader is not always to make other leaders, but to instill the understanding that every role is of equal importance and to help each member grow in their position.

Back to skating, your feet turning into a brain would not make you a better skater, but it is the coordination of each part; growing and learning and working together that will eventually make a better skater.

I didn’t intend to be so long, but anyway those are just my thoughts.

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