Excerpted comments from the end of an interview with Clay Christensen –
“Personally, I have a propensity to try to figure out the causal mechanism behind good phenomena. One day, just on my own I decided God doesn’t hire accountants in heaven. What I mean is that you and I have finite minds and we have to hire accountants to calculate the invoices coming in and going out and are we winning or losing on margins. We get a sense of hierarchy. So people who are presiding over bigger numbers tend to be viewed as more important than people who preside over smaller numbers.
I realized that God has an infinite mind and he doesn’t have to aggregate people into numbers. For me, that has just been a driving, truly a driving insight, that God does not have to aggregate people but rather, at the level of individual people, God can understand completely what’s going on in this world. Therefore, I better get busy and figure out how I will measure my life so that at the end of my life when God looks at what I accomplished, it will always be assessed at the level of individual people.
My hope is that if that’s the way you think about life, then you as a manager are in a marvelous position. Because every day, I go home from work and think about how could I help people who work for me to become good people that day?
The innovation in the middle of that stuff is really important to help people become better people because you always want to give them more opportunities. If you believe in God, then you have to go through this logic about how God will assess my life. I think it makes me…drives me to be a better manager.”
“God flattens the hierarchy?”
“Yeah. Exactly.”
Positively awesome insight. Make a difference one person at a time.
Great perspective – and I agree. Excellent thought for the day!
It is not through our good works that we get into heaven, Or by being being a “good” person either. It is by being a faithful servant of the Lord that we will be judged when we sit in the judgement seat of the Lord one day.
Eph. 2:8-10
8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
Great thinking, what we do everyday is important. Why we do it is more important. God reads our hearts, and although we full short of Gods’ glory, through the grace of Jesus, we our saved.