Proverbs 12: 1 (AMP) Whoever loves instruction and correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is like a brute beast, stupid and indiscriminating.
To put this verse more simply – “to learn, you must have discipline (NLT).” To grow personally or to lead, it’s discipline that drives your work and your life in the direction needed.
But note also the AMP translation: we are not to tolerate discipline. Not deal with it. Not accept it. Love it. I’m reminded of what M. Scott Peck said in his book The Road Less Traveled, “without discipline we can solve nothing.” Some organizations just love strategy formulation - big plans and wonderful Power Point® presentations: but it is the discipline that comes from strategy implementation where the rubber meets the road. Leaders learn that every action taken is a learning experience: they see it as producing a result- not as success or failure, per se. That’s the attitude of loving discipline. Learn from the results you produce. If you don’t like, change what you are doing – don’t be a “brute beast, stupid and indiscriminating.”
Learn. Change. Grow.
Copyright © 2006 P. Griffith Lindell
Friday, May 12, 2006
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