{"id":3347,"date":"2013-09-09T22:16:05","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T03:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottcochrane.com\/?p=3347"},"modified":"2013-09-09T22:18:28","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T03:18:28","slug":"how-can-you-avoid-being-bigger-than-the-game-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/2013\/09\/09\/how-can-you-avoid-being-bigger-than-the-game-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How Can You Avoid Being \u201cBigger Than the Game?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Originally posted November 30, 2010<\/em><\/h1>\n

Almost 4 years ago the sports world was rocked by news of the Tiger Woods scandal. Today I want to look back at an article I posted on the one-year anniversary of the scandal, where a Tiger Woods quote sounded a vital warning to leaders everywhere.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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<\/em>The sports headlines are all carrying the same message this week;\u00a0\u201cThe Anniversary of \u2018The Scandal\u2019 \u201c.<\/strong><\/p>\n

You don\u2019t have to read the articles to know that they\u2019re talking about Tiger Woods. It\u2019s been a year since his fall from grace; a year since that notorious car accident in front of his house, and the subsequent revelation that golf\u2019s wonder boy had ruined his family, and his reputation, by maintaining adulterous affairs with as many as a dozen or more mistresses.<\/p>\n

It took Woods many months before he finally addressed the media about his failings, but when he did a single sentence said it all.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought I was bigger than the game.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bigger than the game. How many leaders have we seen come crashing down because they thought they had arrived at the place where they were above the rules?<\/p>\n

Think of King Saul. Israel\u2019s first King had it all. Samuel describes him as \u201cas handsome a young man as could be found anywhere in Israel, and he was a head taller than anyone else.\u201d (1 Samuel 9:2) As King, Saul had a 30-year run in leadership and achieved great things for Israel.<\/p>\n

But eventually he thought he was bigger than the game. He took it upon himself to offer sacrifices; something God permitted only a priest to perform.<\/p>\n

Samuel\u2019s rebuke of Saul was as stinging as anything Tiger Woods ever heard. \u00a0 \u201cYou have not kept the command the Lord your God gave you; if you had, he would have established your kingdom over Israel for all time. But now your kingdom will not endure.\u201d (1 Samuel 13: 13-14)<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know what all of this means for you, but let me suggest three questions that will help you discern if you might be acting like you are bigger than the game:<\/p>\n

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  • Do you ever allow yourself more latitude than you would extend to your staff?<\/strong><\/li>\n
  • Do you ever rebuke your staff for behaviour you know you\u2019re guilty of yourself?<\/strong><\/li>\n
  • Do you ever expect more of your team than you\u2019re willing to commit to yourself?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Weigh in on this\u2026\u00a0How do you prevent yourself from behaving like you\u2019re bigger than the \u201cgame\u201d?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Originally posted November 30, 2010 Almost 4 years ago the sports world was rocked by news of the Tiger Woods scandal. Today I want to look back at an article I posted on the one-year anniversary of the scandal, where a Tiger Woods quote sounded a vital warning to leaders everywhere. The sports headlines are…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,738,478,7,579,581,582,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church","category-effectiveness-2","category-featured","category-leadership","category-ministry-2","category-self-assessment","category-sports-analogies","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3347"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3354,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3347\/revisions\/3354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}