David completed his conquest using Goliath’s sword.ĭavid designed the experiment. Goliath fell facedown on the ground (Verse 49). ![]() David tested his weapon and his skill from a distance that was safe for him. He moved to the battle line (verse 48) but outside of Goliath’s killing zone. He survived that test.ĭavid selected the weapon and tactics that were familiar to him. David tested Saul’s armor and found that it was too heavy before he faced Goliath. A better approach is to ensure that the warrior will have a reasonable chance to survive every encounter. The approach of a rockstar designer or developer may be insufficient.Īlthough some suggest ‘fail fast,’ it is not my recommended approach for a David versus Goliath situation. The highest paid person’s opinion (HiPPO) may be very influential but it should be validated in a context with requisite variety. Perhaps not.Ī title with more wisdom for this post might be “Defeating a voice of experience when it is appropriate.” It would not be wise for any stakeholder to insist that any solution will work in every situation. Perhaps not.Īn individual contributor may have correctly matched a pattern with the current context. The emphasis for all stakeholders (leaders, managers, individual contributors,…) should be on the word ‘may.’Ī leader may have correctly matched their experience with the current context. I was once heard that experiences are savings which a miser puts aside wisdom is an inheritance which a waster cannot exhaust.Įxperience tells us what to do confidence inspires us to do it.Ī voice of experience may be correct. Experience should be a guidepost…not a hitching post. Behind successful persons are a lot of successful surprises– after many unsuccessful experiments and unsuccessful years. Life’s experiences are not to paralyze us, rather to help us discover who we are. He ultimately told dad he was to study medicine and not business. My roommate was always so torn between the anchor of his father’s maligned idea of life and his own need for greater moral experience. ![]() Imagine that ongoing “experience” in your life…and believing it from your dad. His father was a highly successful multi-retail store owner, and one of his regular ardent beliefs which I heard him tell his son over and over again was: “Life is all about ass you’re either covering it, laughing it off, kicking it, kissing it, busting it, trying to get a piece of it, or behaving like one.” I think there’s something about “experience” in that joke, and “wisdom.” I think we all know experience can be a bad lesson and a bad teacher if it comes from “bad judgment.” And, if it does not reap wisdom, that experience can be our anchor-and for those in our midst–for many years to come.Ī rather light-hearted example of this is a rural young guy I roomed with in my first year of college. After a professor told me it was a cultural thing, he also jokingly said, “If there were wisdom in beards, all goats would be prophets.” How might leaders defeat the limiting side of experience?ĭan, I had the audacity in my travels years ago to ask why so many men in that region of the world grew beards. How might the voice of experience limit potential? Great achievements are accomplished by people who do things their way, not someone else’s. Let the people doing the job figure out the best way to do the job. They couldn’t imagine the power of a simple unexpected approach. Remember the same people sitting around the same table deliver the same results.Įveryone laughed at David’s bravado because they judged him through the eyes of experience.If you keep doing the same thing, you will achieve the same results. Exponential success demands unexpected methods. ![]() Who thought shepherding mixed with warfare?
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