{"id":63984,"date":"2019-10-03T15:56:11","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T12:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=63984"},"modified":"2023-05-01T01:08:24","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T22:08:24","slug":"its-better-when-we-work-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/its-better-when-we-work-together\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Better When We Work Together"},"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":[639,778],"acf":{"old_id":"63984","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33992,"related_cahpter":"321","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Teamwork, transparency and accountability improve individual and collective achievement","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">King Joash was a young boy of seven years when he began his reign as King of Judah. At the start, it all looks bright for the young monarch, and the anonymous narrator tells us that he did what was proper in God\u2019s eyes \u201call the days that Jehoiada the priest taught him.\u201d That seemingly superfluous comment about his teacher is a tip off to the careful reader: things are going to veer in a bad direction, but his teacher, Jehoiada brings out the young king\u2019s best potential. We each do better when we work together.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The king proposes to his teacher and the other priests that money devoted to holy purposes should be utilized to repair the Temple and the ways in which it has deteriorated with time. It is left to each individual priest to divert whatever funds might seem necessary for that purpose. The king and his priests may be filled with the best of intentions, but it becomes apparent that the money isn\u2019t being used for rebuilding and repair. So he creates a new system in which the money is no longer accessible and can only be retrieved by a committee comprised of the high priest and the kings\u2019s scribe, that is to say, representatives of the Royal House and representatives of the priesthood, together.\u00a0 With this new system, the repairs actually begin and adequate resources funds these repairs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The innovation here is a combination of transparency and accountability. No longer relying on private acts of goodness, or personal commitments to long-term policy, the genius of this new approach is that is recognizes that people act better when we act in concert. As we watch each other, we inspire a higher level of achievement. We all reach a little higher when someone is watching, and even better than that when they are not only watching but reporting on what they see.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And the opposite is true as well: when we no longer have another trusted person to use as a sounding board, to react to our ideas and evaluate them with us, to implement and to witness with us, we can easily veer astray. That is precisely what happens to the King. Without his trusted teacher and advisor, the king falls on precisely the kind of bad habits that the Books of Kings condemns. According to Midrash Shemot Rabbah 8:2, he permits the resurgence of idolatry that will ultimately bring the Temple down. In the end, he loses the independence of the kingdom and becomes subservient to the neighboring royal bully, King Hazael of Aram. In the wake of that weakness, his own servants rise up and assassinate their former master.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We often take credit for our own successes, forgetting all the other people who contributed along the way. We often take credit for our own virtues and strengths, again ignoring everyone who makes us who we are. 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