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are many, many exceptions. But has it ever entered your notice that
as one distances oneself from “real work” and escalates in the
organizational hierarchy from day to day front-line operations the
greater the temptation there is to become a wolf? Today I asked the
owner/operator of a small convenience store would he be the same
person “in the head” if during the next year his business
dramatically grew. Additions to the staff were made, and instead of
often standing behind the counter making pressed Cuban sandwiches
(his specialty), he now rather had a full array of “slaves” to
handle all the work and he rather set back in an enclosed, plush
office complete with an obsequious secretary sitting guard outside
his door. What is it that can gain a foothold the further withdrawn
from real work and direct customer service we get? I would love to
ask this of my wise, humble, experienced, and knowledgeable friend
Marvin Sweat who was a Methodist minister but also a beloved Methodist
district superintendent in the Florida Conference. Whether this
phenomenon represents the emergence of something new or the fuller
revelation of what was already nascent would be my primary inquiry.
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