16/12/2023
What is a leader, and why we should take a closer look at Christianity for a solution?
We're coming full circle. We had a few decades of leaders who use power plays and bank on narcisistic-psychopatic tendencies. Folks that use any means necessary to acumulate power over others.
It was the perfect breeding ground for toxic masculinity, from The Wolf of Wall Street to Andrew Tate and everybody inbetween, this was/is a time of brute force as modus operandi in the C-suite, and in the smallest of teams that needed a team leader.
Then, we also had a few decades of experts leading teams. This was/is the time where knowledge-hoarding makes the leader indispensible. Sharing knowledge is anticlimactic, and self-destructive in this case. It was the era of the geeks, from Bill Gates to the local startup founder, this is where the more you know, the less expendable you are, so it's a way of twisting the arm of companies to keep you on payroll.
In both cases, toxicity prevented companies from achieving what they can, because teams were led by folks that had their own wellbeing and job security as the primary focus. I've seen it in too many organizations, where "leaders" make decisions based on what works for them, what secures their position, what helps them grow their career. What is good for the company, or what is good for the team was a distant second or third question.
Now, finally, there's a nostalgic comeback of the idea of servant leadership. Leaders are meant to lead the team so that every individual becomes the best version of themselves, so they can give the best they've got.
This makes the worker much happier because "at work" is a place of growth, not just giving.
It then makes each team member an A-player. Imagine what happens when you have a team of happy A-players. Loyalty skyrockets. Productivity skyrockets. Growth follows soon after.
The awesome thing is that servant leadership can't be faked. You're either a servant-leader, or you're a fake. It doesn't take too much emotional inteligence and effort to recognize a faker from the genuine article. It just takes initiative to look and see.
This is where Christianity has a truckload to offer. Church-going folks here will have a massive advantage over everybody else.... provided that they attend a church that models Christ-likeness. Why? Because Christ said that whoever wants to be greatest, must serve everybody.
Another awesome thing is that this servant-leadership is not a provound concept at all. It's just scratching the surface of what Christianity has to offer.
Work ethics is another huge contribution to enterpreneuership and career success. But even that is still skin-deep.
Did you know that Henry Ford did NOT invent the 5-day workweek? Did you know that its actually written in the Apostolic Constitutions vol. 8? It's a book written arround 375-380AD.
In it the christian thinkers write:
"Let the slaves work five days. But on the Sabbath and the Lord's Day, let them have rest in order to go to church for instruction in piety." In modern-day terms, Saturday is for rest, and Sunday is for church. The two days are intended to give you time to recover, and then to start the next week by being together with other christians, listening to a sermon on christian living.
But even that is barely scratching the surface. Silent Quitting is a costly epidemic that companies struggle to fix, because there is a fundamental problem of how Work is percieved. The philosophy of work for most, is that it's a necessary evil to get to a paycheck. But Christianity has a Theology of Work, that addresses this very issue, and has a solution for this $9 TRILLION problem. That's 9000 BILLION dollars.
Life Coaching is a $4.5bn industry that has a remarkable growth in the past few years, dispite the global lockdown. But with all the coaching sessions and team building exercises that are more fitting for a kindergarden rather than an office, companies are still struggling with Silent Quitting. The world economy is still losing $9 trillion each year. For refference, it takes $7bn/year to eliminate abject poverty in the world, and around $250bn to eliminate malnutrition on the planet.
If we apply a theology of work in the workplace, servant leadership becomes the norm, plus we solve Silent Quitting by giving people a better reason to work.
When we solve silent quitting, we get the economy to grow by 9 Trillion per year. If we take only 3% from that growth, we solve the world's malnutrition problem.
If we apply theology of work, we can get all the money we'd need to literally fix the planet.
Crazy. And the solution is staring at us, wondering why we're taking so long. As if we're intentionally ignoring the solution only so we can continue bitching about the problems.
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