Enrager vs. Engager

I just finished up my 3 miles on a treadmill and 5 miles on a bike at the Louisville Athletic Club. This morning I read an article in the LEO Weekly. The LEO sat down and interviewed the Mayor Of Louisville Jerry Abrhamson.

I want to share with you 2 things that our Mayor said in his interview that really stand out to me.

1) He said that he is no different than any other CEO of any business when it comes to trimming the budget. There seems to be a small outrage of people that were against the closing of a small fire station. Although it seems that City of Louisville did their home work. They have been studying the issue of this firehouse for over 3 years. The media would want you to beleive that all of the sudden the City is closing this firehouse. Point is that CEO's of companies and Mayor's of cities are paid to make decisions that support the big picture. However, I know government is government and business is business.

2) The Mayor said that we have people in our community that are "enragers" and people in our community that our "engagers". Enragers are involved in the process of enragement- getting people or groups of people enraged. Unfortunately, most of the time these are the people depicted by our media. And of course, our city or our businesses go no where in the process of enragement. On the otherhand, the Mayor stated that we have many people in our community that are "engagers." Engagers are invovled in the process of engagement- getting people or groups of people engaged. Just think how far we could go if we had more engagers surrounding us.

After reading the article, I started to reflect on how true this is in everything we are invovled in. Whether it is a real estate transaction, or Church function, or family, or relationships, or any other business... there are "enragers" and "engagers."

Where do you fall most of the time? Are you an enrager or an engager?