KevinTest
“Individual commitment to a group effort — that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.”
Vince Lombardi
Whenever I hear the word commitment, I am reminded of something a sales manager told me once, he said to me, “Billy I need you committed, I need you to be a pig” I asked “Why a pig?” He said “Consider a bacon and egg breakfast, the chicken is only a participant, the pig is committed”
No I know I don’t have to explain the symbolism here, but I ask you this, Is this how committed to our teams we are?
I recall something I heard at a Promise Keepers event once, Joe White told the audience, Christ calls us to be able to Preach, Pray or Die at a moment’s notice. Now not that I am ready to go just yet, but it occurs to me that maybe this is how we should look at our teams.
I know at least one of my teams, I preach to regularly, pray for often and would die for a member at a moment’s notice. How about you?
Commitment is a strong word to me. As I look back on my life, I have really only been truly committed to a few things in my life. I wonder if that is the crux of finding happiness, your commitment to whatever makes you happy….but I digress.
I appreciate the comments about the Unity post, especially one from Rene that talks about “trust”. I agree wholeheartedly, but I challenge you to consider commitment.
I think if I had to choose between “Unity” and “Commitment”, I would choose Commitment. We could all be unified and all be going the wrong direction.
Now, before anyone jumps up and says the same thing about commitment, (because we could all be committed to the wrong thing, couldn’t we?), taking many things into consideration, if I had to choose, I would choose “commitment”.
Who else out there is willing to state an opinion?
As much as I agree with Kevin and Rene, I chose Unity as most important because of what I felt it meant. I heard Unity defined as the state of being undivided or unbroken. So assuming we were unified in a good and common goal, wouldnt that mean we were all commited to the same goal and in turn could trust each other? I think we are unified in the blog and therefore committed to making it great, and trust that each other will provided honest and heartfelt opinions in our posts?
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