Collegiality

One thing about the British culture I've had to get used to is the word "colleague." One time I was having great difficulty
on a film shoot, my supervisor was on my case and on my nerves, and while in prayer I felt the Lord say that this person was a "colleague," and not a boss.

The word colleague is something I had never used before, so the Lord has a sense of humor. I have tended to view work relationships through the lens of who is in authority, what is the chain of command. My friends were either lesser or greater on the employee food chain. Maybe this comes from the training and producing in work cultures that focused on the "CEO as Moses" model.

But a word like colleague implies a level playing field, and a team-centered approach.

This word from God helped me to toss my Roy Book of Limited Thinking out the window. And as soon as I applied this word, it freed me up a notch.
To see my colleagues as co-creators rather than Visionaries arriving down from Mount Sinai is powerful vision in itself.

listening to: Episode 7 - "If you give a mouse a cookie" from the album "Four Eyed Monsters Video Podcast" by Arin Crumley & Susan Buice

Comments

[Jason_73]

I don't know Roy, that sounds kind of egalitarian..

[Existential Punk]

Roy, GREAT insights here! Love it!

Jason, what's wrong with egalitarian?

[Roy]

Egalitarians are usually communists.

[Existential Punk]

i don't see all egalitarians as communists. Look at acts in the new testament. Balance in everything! :)

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