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Employee Story about Loss and Providence
Joan Duggan was co-founder of a very successful company, which she later sold. She then worked in the corporate world for a while, but eventually gave almost all of her money away and founded an EoC-minded tutoring startup in upstate New York, which she helped manage for over 2 decades. Here Joan shares a story of a situation where a very valued tutor at their company was suddenly incapacitated and the very same day another person who could provide those same hard-to-find skills for their firm called asking for work.
- Joan is a mathematician. She says that this instance of amazing coincidence is not statistically believable, and it must be Providence. Her response was to assume it was Providence. Do you agree?
- When you have a view that Providence intervenes in reality and helps change course of things for you, you see the world differently, and frequently with an sense of gratitude. Do you think that such an attitude is a better approach to business or is such a view childish?
- Have you ever had 'coincidences' like these occur in your own life experience? How do you account for such things happening?
- In what ways can moments like this build confidence in a company’s mission or purpose?