Leadership in A Vulture Culture
I was listening to the Catalyst podcast recently and one of the hosts told a story about how he saw a bunch of vultures eating a carcass on the side of the road and purposefully went out of his way to hit one of them. He recalled how the birds deliberately waited until the last minute to get out of the way, but as soon as he passed by they went right back to their grisly meal. In fact, they went back much quicker than they left. He then remarked on how some organizations are plagued by a "Vulture Culture," where gossipers, malcontents and bitter folk can't wait for something to go wrong so they can start "picking the carcass," so to speak. Even if these "vultures" are cleared off their picking, they often leave reluctantly and rush back as soon as they think the time is right. I resonated with this analogy. I live and breathe in the arena of Church and church-y people so that is the frame of reference from which I write. But the truth of...