Don’t Shoot the Messenger

By On April 1, 2011 · 5 Comments

I am glad that we have the opportunity to sit down today and talk. Sorry we could not meet in person, but a digital discussion will just work fine for me.

Talk about what you ask? Oh you know, just whatever. We could talk about our kids or the crazy weather we are having or why more doughnuts aren’t made from red velvet cake. We could discuss reasons why some people spell the word “doughnut” and others spell it “donut.”

Why am I so fidgety? No reason at all. I have absolutely no reason to be fidgety or anxious or worried? Do I really seem anxious because there is definitely no anxiety on my part.

Is something wrong? Am I hiding something from you? That was an incredibly rude question for you to ask.

Okay, okay. I do have some bad news today. I am not publishing a new post here.

Instead, you can read an article I wrote entitled “Don’t Shoot the Messenger” which is about giving people bad news. The post is featured on Michael Hyatt’s blog Intentional Leadership. Michael is the CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishers as well an expert on leadership, publishing, and social media. If you have never read his blog before, you should stop wasting your time here and go check it out.

Sorry if I did a poor job telling you the bad news. Apparently I need to read my own post too.

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  • http://charlieschurchofchrist.wordpress.com Charlie’s Church of Christ

    wow look at you rock star! How’d you manage a guest post on there?! Good article – I have a lot of respect for how our boss broke the news the company was closing. You could see the anguish on his face..

    • http://www.jeremysconfessions.com Jeremy Statton

      Was it something that you heard from your boss or were rumors swirling before he had a chance to talk to everyone?

  • http://www.inthatdayteachings.com Robert Winkler Burke

    Great wisdom: Don’t shoot the messenger! That’s what uncorrectable people do, people who prefer ignorance. So the question is, How Do We Survive the Ignorant Uncorrectables?

    Surviving the Ignorant Uncorrectables
    By Robert Winkler Burke
    Of inthatdayteachings.com
    Copyright 10/16/09

    Sad to say,
    And it gives me no pleasure,
    Some leaders,
    This moment, this hour…

    Ignorant of yesterday’s blood-sacrifice lessons,
    Ignorant of ancient time-tested truths,
    Ignorant of how great-indwelt of God man can be,
    Proclaiming famed intellect is their ruse.

    Until mugged, the mugger’s great champion,
    Until enslaved, the slave shackler,
    Until humbled by man, God and Devil,
    The cause of epic human disaster.

    The deniers of the greatest revelation,
    That God lives in man, His creation,
    The propagandist of the greatest lie,
    Survival of fittest means others must die.

    Unenlightened, ignorant uncorrectables must live,
    All lesser others must die?
    That the indwelt of good depopulate earth themselves,
    And never ask why?

    The ignorant uncorrectables,
    Have an amazing blandishment trick,
    They, being deceived, deceive well,
    Diseasing multitudes yet appearing not sick.

    Ages come,
    And ages go,
    Fiat paper worthless,
    Gold always gold.

    Why rail against darkness,
    When gross darkness has completely now come?
    Batten down the hatches,
    Behold, oh world: Job’s unavoidable storm!

    Not to prove you or I are right,
    Or that the uncorrectables are wrong,
    But that in self-restraint is liberty,
    A lesson seven billion must learn strong.

    Even if just half of the people of the world,
    Believed in Lincoln’s, Jefferson’s and Moses’ precept,
    Mutual dedication to self-restraint,
    Then in liberty man would have his best days yet.

    But first the mad uncorrectables,
    Must rule and ruin their aureate roost,
    To disabuse the world of lies,
    And give peace on earth its best boost.

    Sanctimony dies hard,
    Lies die harder,
    But not all death is vain,
    Truth lives farther.

  • http://homekettle.wordpress.com David N.

    Good article!

  • http://www.jeremysconfessions.com Jeremy Statton

    Thanks, when I read your post at Alise …. Writes I hoped you were talking about me.

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