DAVID AND GOLIATH We all know the story of David and Goliath. There was a giant who was bullying and harassing the children in the village. One day, a 17-year-old shepherd boy came to visit his brothers and asked, “Why don’t you stand up and fight the giant?” The brothers were
terrified and they replied, “Don’t you see he is too big to hit?” But David said, “No, he is
not too big to hit, he is too big to miss.” The rest is history. We all know what happened.
David killed the giant with a sling. Same giant, different perception.
Our attitude determines how we look at a setback. To a positive thinker, it can be a
stepping stone to success. To a negative thinker, it can be a stumbling block.
Great organizations are not measured by wages and working conditions, they are
measured by feelings, attitudes and relationships.
When employees say, “I can’t do it,” there are two possible meanings. Are they saying
they don’t know how to or they don’t want to? If they don’t know how to, that is a training
issue. If they are saying they don’t want to,
it may be an attitude issue (they don’t care) or a values issue (they believe they should
not do it).
A HOLISTIC APPROACH
I believe in the holistic approach. We are not an arm and a leg, but a complete human
being. The whole person goes to work and the whole person comes home. We take
family problems to work and work problems to the family. What happens when we take
family problems to work? Our stress level goes up and productivity comes down.
Similarly, work and social problems have an impact on every aspect of our lives.
Take any one of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it
to your family life or your work or your government or your world and it holds true and
clear and firm.
