This is the person responsible for your leadership results (and it's not you)

Tom Harper Nov. 28, 2023

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Several years ago I listened to a brilliant leadership podcast in which the host said, "Be obedient to God and trust him with the consequences. Live your life as if truly God will take full responsibility for your leadership results."

Does this mean we should just relax and go with the flow? No. We have to disrupt. We have to innovate. We have to confront. We have to encourage.

While we as leaders still have to drive into the future, it's not about making our mark on the world, it's about God making his mark through us.

If we settle this in our minds—that God is the one responsible for our leadership results—we will be in a perfect position for him to do what he wants through us.

"Stand still & see this great thing the Lord is about to do before your eyes!" (1 Sam 12:16)

When we follow God's leadership plan, we get his results, and he gets the glory.

Excerpted from Servant Leader Strong: Uniting Biblical Wisdom and High-Performance Leadership, by Tom Harper (DeepWater Books, 2019). Also available in Spanish and Amharic.

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Tom Harper is publisher of BiblicalLeadership.com and executive chairman of Networld Media Group, a business-to-business publisher and event producer. He has written five books, including Servant Leader Strong: Uniting Biblical Wisdom and High-Performance Leadership (DeepWater Books, 2019) as well as the Christian business fable Through Colored Glasses and its sequel Inner Threat (DeepWater, 2022). Learn More »

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