Built to Beat Chaos

CHAPTER 12Get Everyone Innovating

For he (farmer) is rightly instructed; his God teaches him. Dill is not threshed with a threshing sledge, nor is a cart wheel rolled over cumin, but dill is beaten out with a stick, and cumin with a rod. Does one crush grain for bread? No, he does not thresh it forever; when he drives his cart wheel over it with his horses, he does not crush it

Isaiah 28

Now we will focus on how to tap into the tremendous knowledge of the people not traditionally thought of as leaders—those on the front lines.

There is deep respect in the Bible for the work people do and the wisdom behind it. Work is holy in God's eyes because He commissioned us to have dominion—to bring order out of chaos. That is the essence of what work means.

The creation narrative continues in chapter 2 of Genesis and shows that God gave Adam the assignment to take care of the Garden of Eden. This work was not a punishment; it was a direct assignment from God before any trouble emerged later in the story. Work is good and holy.

A second example is when God tells Moses to assign Bezalel (a craftsman) a role in the construction of their tabernacle. This is what He says:

I have filled him with the Spirit of God in wisdom, in understanding, in knowledge, and in all kinds of craftsmanship to make artistic designs for work in gold, in silver and in bronze and the cutoff stones for settings, and in the carving of wood….

Exodus 31

The most basic premise of the Bible is that everyone is created ...