In this series, we’re talking about leadership lessons I learned from banking. One bank I examined had a bank president named Ken.
While reviewing a past due loan report, I was surprised to discover a large loan that was one year past due but not listed on their problem loan list. When I asked Ken about it, he said he didn’t want to offend the borrower. So, Ken ignored the problem for an entire year!
Unfortunately, the rest of the bank followed his lead and ignored other problems as well.
Proverbs 10:17 teaches, “Whoever heeds discipline shows the way to life, but whoever ignores correction leads others astray.”
The lesson I learned was that ignoring problems doesn’t solve them. It also signals to your team to ignore theirs as well.
