Where I work, we're undergoing a reorganization after the president discovered gross misdirection and mismanagement deep within the company. A consultant was brought in who's meeting with teams and individual employees to investigate how it happened. Many of us were surprised and glad that this consultant immediately identified a lack of professional courage as being the main culprit that facilitated the failure. Simply put, quasi-nepotism led to many team leads and managers being appointed who were horrible managers--the peter principle in action, essentially. As a result, those unqualified middle managers would never "push back" on upper management when given idiotic orders. A cascade of failure resulted.
During this investigation, a few individuals have been identified who demonstrated professional courage by pushing back on middle management, risking firing in the process. Of course, this obviously made me ponder the book of Genesis. Okay, I'm weird like that.
Couldn't the story of Abraham and Isaac be interpreted a different way? If Abraham had pushed back on God, couldn't that also have been interpreted as courage because of the possible enormity of consequences? Is it possible that God would have honored that reaction, or was faith more important to God than a push back that indicated strong courage? This sounds like something that rabbis might midrash about.
During this investigation, a few individuals have been identified who demonstrated professional courage by pushing back on middle management, risking firing in the process. Of course, this obviously made me ponder the book of Genesis. Okay, I'm weird like that.
Couldn't the story of Abraham and Isaac be interpreted a different way? If Abraham had pushed back on God, couldn't that also have been interpreted as courage because of the possible enormity of consequences? Is it possible that God would have honored that reaction, or was faith more important to God than a push back that indicated strong courage? This sounds like something that rabbis might midrash about.
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