Leadership Not Shrewdness

Proverbs 7: 4 (NIV) Say to Wisdom, "You are my sister," and call understanding your kinsman.


The Senior Management team in public companies is faced with the realities of Wall Street, P/E ratios, plummeting stock value, and meeting analysts’ forecasts. Sometimes "games" are played that affect those outcomes. Private companies face their own unique challenges to sometimes fudge the numbers to meet expectations.

The Christian business person is charged with managing by a different set of standards –standards that sometimes fly in the face of “how it needs to be done.” Standards have a source that begins with the "right self-talk" – talk that embraces Wisdom as if she were family. "Wisdom, You are the one I know intimately - I need you: Understanding, I call to you to be my Rock through this crises."

It takes both to lead remembering that leading is a spiritual battle. The one who would destroy your relationship with your Creator wants to fool us into thinking that we shrewd enough to do it in our own strength. Not true. Whether leading an organization or a team, God’s ways are not always the world’s ways and remember, "What society sees and calls monumental, God sees through and calls monstrous."

Are you intimate with wisdom and understanding?


Copyright © 2009 by P. Griffith Lindell