Defined By Your Environment

There's an interesting law that governs most of us that we rarely wrestle with or acknowledge but this law has great control on us all. It's the law that our environments truly govern our outcomes.

It's proven time and time again that you can take any diversity of people, place them in a certain environment, and expect relatively the same results. What does this mean and what can we do about it?

First, we must recognize that our results are based more on the environments that we create than the people we hire. This may sound foolish, but if you give it enough thought you may start to realize it's truth. Second, in order to have the impact we desire we must be willing to change the environment to reach that end.

It is possible and it is good. We need to challenge our environments. We need to challenge our structures. If we don't we will be ruled by our practices and methods and these always go the way of extinction in time.

Environments shape our results... challenge your environments to be the best steward of the mission set before you.

Stewardship in Leadership

Yes, of course, leadership is stewardship. We should all get that idea rather quickly. But have you ever thought of it from the angle of stewardship being on of the greatest gifts ever given to us - therefore making those who are in positions of leadership in a place of great joy and responsibility?

I've observed many leaders over the years in work, home, and other environments miss this completely. The question must be ask... if you're given a position of leadership, why wouldn't you want to run with that well?

Leadership is a responsibility of stewardship and those of us given that opportunity need to take full advantage of the perspective in that role. And may we never forget that all stewardship is temporary - that's why it's called stewardship. We are entrusted for a season to lead something well and to pass it along to the next team/person well.

May we run well with leadership as we recognize that we are entrusted with it only for a season - there is great strength in realizing our time is limited.