{"id":39628,"date":"2018-09-07T16:49:51","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T13:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=39628"},"modified":"2022-04-03T14:18:04","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T11:18:04","slug":"joseph-leadership-in-an-age-of-anxiety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/joseph-leadership-in-an-age-of-anxiety\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph: Leadership in an Age of Anxiety"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[375,502,402],"acf":{"old_id":"39628","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":38437,"related_cahpter":"41","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Acknowledging the fear, while tapping into human ingenuity and faith","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We walk through the world with the knowledge that bad things will happen. That\u2019s the nature of mortality. And yet, we largely live in a healthy state of denial that allows us to enjoy and make meaning in the present and to dream about the future. However, denial can go too far. We humans have a mixed track record on how to respond to clear and present danger. Maybe the specter is too frightening to \u201cbelieve,\u201d or too abstract \u2013 not clear and present enough. Perhaps we lack the leaders who can guide us through an anxious time with a sure hand and a clear and optimistic vision. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Take climate change for example. For decades scientists have given us the gift of identifying this phenomenon coupled with concrete advice on how to respond. Alas, as a species we have been wildly and disastrously unresponsive. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Against this backdrop, Pharaoh\u2019s hasty and unequivocal embrace of his Hebrew prisoner\u2019s dream interpretation is particularly astonishing. \u00a0What leader would so willingly embrace bad news?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The answer lies in Joseph\u2019s astute leadership at this moment of intense anxiety. First, Joseph diminishes Pharoah\u2019s confusion and anguish by \u201cshrinking the change\u201d\u2014don\u2019t be overwhelmed, these are not two dreams but one. There is one distinct message here and this advanced knowledge a gift from God. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Next, he delivers the bad news clearly and directly: seven years of plenty followed by seven years of severe famine. To be sure, this is terrible news, and if Joseph had stopped here, Pharaoh very well may have sent him back to prison. \u00a0But Joseph insists on the interpretation reiterating that \u201cthe matter has been determined by God\u201d and then, without missing a beat, offers a full blown strategic plan for the next fourteen years including a chain of command, staffing structure, set of procedures and an inspired vision for the outcome. Confronted with both the inevitability of God\u2019s plan and the possibility that Joseph\u2019s vision and leadership suggests, Pharaoh and his entire court accept the bad news and embrace Joseph\u2019s response.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Joseph models leadership during a time of anxiety, at once acknowledging the overwhelm and fear and at the same time, tapping into the possibility of human ingenuity and faith. <\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":54862,"id":54862,"title":"jo-end-leadership","filename":"jo-end-leadership.png","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jo-end-leadership.png","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/joshua-preserves-and-adapts-tradition\/jo-end-leadership\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"jo-end-leadership","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":54861,"date":"2019-05-04 21:23:32","modified":"2022-06-14 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