019: The Counsel
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019: The Counsel
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A stranger walks into this episode. Jethro, priest of Midian and Moses' father-in-law, brings Zipporah and the two sons back to the camp. He watches Moses judge the people from morning until evening, and says the soberest sentence in this whole wilderness: „This is not good. You are wearing yourself out.“ His advice is administration, not a miracle: appoint capable people as judges over thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens, and keep only the hard cases for yourself. Leadership research knows the limit where one person can no longer carry it, and knows that the truly scarce resource is not time but attention. The remarkable thing is who gives this advice: a man of another tradition, with his own God, who then leaves again. The founding book gratefully preserves that its most important principle of order came from an outsider, and does not hide where it came from.
What we take with us: No one carries a whole people alone, and the most valuable counsel often comes from outside, from someone who has nothing to gain from it.