Secular literature supports the Biblical observation that envy and leadership are intermixed in many complex ways – suggesting that envy is often so painful an emotion for leaders that it is driven to the unconscious resulting in behaviors that undermine a leader’s ability to attract and maintain followers. Small business owners sometimes are unaware of this – envying their employees who “just show up.” They don’t have to worry about payroll. Or business debt. Or just keeping the doors open.
Biblical Leadership is a “heart” issue – one that takes a power higher than us to expose the hidden drivers that capture our thought-life.
Leaders will succeed by “filling [their] minds and thinking about “things that are true, noble, reputable, authentic, compelling, gracious—the best, not the worst; the beautiful, not the ugly; things to praise, not things to curse.” [Phil. 4:4-6 (MSG)]
What are you thinking about?
Proverbs 24:19-20 (NIV) Do not fret because of evil men or be envious of the wicked, for the evil man has no future hope, and the lamp of the wicked will be snuffed out.
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