Max Dupree (former chairman of Herman Miller, Inc.), in Leadership Jazz, observes, “…Leadership is a position of servanthood. Leadership is also a posture of debt; it is a forfeiture of rights.”
Serving customers, employees and suppliers demands in us a very different attitude from being “wise in [our] own eyes.” Running a business takes a mix of confidence and humility – humility to accept that “we” don’t have all the answers, and some of answers may even have a spiritual component acknowledging a need for God’s perspective.
Conceit has captivated humans from the very beginning and may be expressed by an assumption that God has nothing to say about business and its relationships – could that be a conceit that makes one a “practical atheist?”
I believe there is one wiser than we and His Word is our guidebook – even for business.
Who do you serve? What are you reading?
Proverbs 26:17 (AMP) Do you see a man wise in his own eyes and conceit?
There is more hope for a [self-confident] fool than for him.