At least there will be peace in my time

A recent episode of the 2Bobs podcast was talking about promotions and management, and the type of people that should be promoted to manager. It was a great episode ( go check it out here), and David made an excellent point about something that we might overlook. He tried to reference a passage from the Bible and didn’t know the location offhand, but he was trying to point to 2 Kings 20:19, which ends with:

For he thought, “Is it not good, if there will be peace and security in my days?”

For Hezekiah, it might have been good to focus on peace during his time, but for a manager that can be a bad thing. Keeping the peace is a great thing, of course, but you may often hold back in the interest of short-term peace versus long-term peace.

For example, if you have trouble with an employee, it might be easier now to cover for them and keep the status quo. Long-term, firing them now and solving the problem may be a better move.

Sharks vs Deer

Seth Godin’s “ Akimbo “ podcast had a similar theme this week in contrasting sharks vs deer.

In our lives, we tend to be afraid of “sharks”; things that are very scary, but quite rare, such as your home in the suburbs getting robbed.