Consider the Ant

When it comes to getting something done, which is more important, strength or teamwork?

Consider the ant (Pro 30:25, Pro 6:6).

Give a colony of garden ants a week and a pile of dirt, and they will transform it into an underground structure the height of a skyscraper in an ant-scaled city. They use a complex decentralized system with interactions from huge numbers of individuals. It’s not about strength. It’s not about a leader barking orders.

They use chemical markers to give clues to the others about the optimal task to do at any given moment.

As a leader what clues or signals could you help a team develop so they function as a determined, effective, tightly knit team?

2 responses to “Consider the Ant”

  1. revruss1220 Avatar

    Good food for thought here. Thank you for this post.

  2. davidsdailydose Avatar

    I will leave signals of fellowship and ownership. If folks don’t enjoy the journey (mostly), they won’t want to continue. If they don’t feel a personal stake in the outcome they won’t put their hearts into it either.

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