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"If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end. If you look for comfort you will get neither comfort or truth- only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin with, and in the end despair."
C.S. Lewis
Not everything that is comfortable is true.
Comfort is not necessarily an indicator of truth.
In fact; if we are never made uncomfortable, we may live out our
lives with the notion we are the creators of reality.
But some day...maybe not today, nor tomorrow...but some day we will
all bump up against the truth.
And if we "make it up," then on a really bad day we will be
unable to convince ourselves otherwise because
we cannot lie to ourselves forever.
concordia cum veritate
"In harmony with truth"
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Friday, February 27, 2009
Friday, February 13, 2009
Hiring The Right Person, Not The Right Resume
020609
There is a key passage in a book that I read several years ago, and as I read the book again this passage really speaks to church hiring problems.
The book is a very detailed book on the how, what, who, and why certain business are successful and others are not.
This is a quote from a paragraph dealing with one such successful business:
“Successful companies placed greater weight on character attributes than on specific educational background, practical skills, specialized knowledge, or work experience.”
The church should take note of this fact, and face the hard reality that hiring people based heavily on non-character issues does not work well in the short term if it works at all, and will never work in the long run.
“We judge ourselves by what we are capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.”
Longfellow
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There is a key passage in a book that I read several years ago, and as I read the book again this passage really speaks to church hiring problems.
The book is a very detailed book on the how, what, who, and why certain business are successful and others are not.
This is a quote from a paragraph dealing with one such successful business:
“Successful companies placed greater weight on character attributes than on specific educational background, practical skills, specialized knowledge, or work experience.”
The church should take note of this fact, and face the hard reality that hiring people based heavily on non-character issues does not work well in the short term if it works at all, and will never work in the long run.
“We judge ourselves by what we are capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.”
Longfellow
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