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set them up for success.

this concept has been stuck in my head for weeks. i am a volleyball player, a setter (obviously), albeit on a long sabatical. i really need to fix that this summer. anyway, if a volleyball team doesn’t have a good passer and setter it makes no difference whatsoever how hard your big man can hit. he’ll never have the chance.tonight i skipped to the end of this book i’m reading (i know, i can’t help it - it’s completely involuntary). this is what I found…

“a call for change without clearly defined core beliefs and behaviors is like conducting a job performance evaluation on an employee who has never received a job description. the employee walks away with a semiclear understanding at what failing at his or her job looks like. but no real understanding of what it means to succeed.

it is not enough to communicate, ‘things need to change around here.’ that’s akin to kicking over an ant bed. to get things back on course things must be exceedingly clear.” ::andy stanley, visioneering::

this is good information to have under your belt BEFORE things get off course, don’t you think? this is why I read and this is why I pray. so I don’t unwittingly go around kicking ant hills.

set them up for success.

so this is what has me up tonight. what is keeping you up till the wee hours?

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