ROLLING WITH THE PUNCHES is what I
call a “life skill,” meaning we have a whole lifetime to continue to develop
such a capacity.
It is a skill pertinent to the sphere
of work, which is why I have ongoingly dealt with it as a class theme over my
long years as an instructor here, but a topic with an obviously broader
reference.
So, at work or in life generally, the
skill alludes to our ability to maintain our balance on the—at times—extremely
rocky path of life, and to have the resiliency to get back on our feed on those
occasions we do get knocked down.
You perhaps are already getting the
picture of how productive an influence Goodwill is in helping people who have
been impacted by one adversity or another do this very thing—gain a reentry
into the workforce after some rough sledding, or overcome the punch of “no
experience,” if still a newcomer to the game.
Yet, I have a bit of an ulterior
motive in introducing this theme in my present story….
One reason—but a very significant
one—Goodwill is a great place to work, in my opinion, is because of the
visionary prowess of our CEO, Eric Schwarz, currently obligating all who work
with him to roll with some unprecedented new punches at this agency.
Eric has one foot in the now, rooted
in the past, with an awareness of all the good accomplished in these former
eras, but also with one foot invested in the unknown future. The expansion of both our services and
service areas newly underway here constitute a feat of growth unheralded in
this organization’s history.
Eric is quite zealous in his
determination to help as many people as possible during his watch, and the
growth anticipated is boundlessly spectacular and veers in many new directions.
Like our leader himself, however, we
all have to trust a vision in the throes of creation, struggling to be
born. It’s an exhilarating rite of
passage.
There is an exquisite intricacy to
the balancing act this thrust demands; you can see why it is best considered an
art.
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