An effective leader helps their team to experience the relationship between their contribution and their compensation. Read Proverbs 3:27.

“When it is in your power to act” (v. 27), effective leaders “Do not withhold” “…good from those who deserve it.” These short statements contain three elements that every leader must understand to be effective in their leadership. Read more »

Seeking wisdom creates godly character and when a leader has godly character their team will delight in following them. Proverbs 2:1-11.

Every leader knows there are character qualities essential to good leadership. Leaders cultivate character by acquiring wisdom and understanding but those possessions come with a price. Finding wisdom and understanding requires the same kind of dedicated, patient labor a miner must have when searching for gold or silver. Leaders must search for wisdom buried in God’s word like treasure covered by layers of earth and rock. Like the miner, the leader that seeks these treasures in God’s word can do so with energy and passion knowing the treasure they ultimately uncover is worth the price they had to pay. Read more »

The leader who refuses to act on what they know is right, who refuses wise counsel, who ignores good advice will end up with a disaster on their hands. Read Proverbs 1:1-33.

Verses 28-32 do not contain comforting thoughts concerning leaders who refuse to apply wisdom. Wisdom threatens to laugh at a leader’s disaster. Wisdom threatens to ignore rebellious leaders who call on her in their time of distress and trouble. On the face of it this may seem like a troubling passage but a closer look reveals the wording is all past tense. Read more »

The book of Proverbs is not a decision-making text book, but a wisdom-packed book that is God’s gift to help leaders make better decisions. Read Proverbs 1:1-7.

God designed the leader’s mind to seek accurate information and analyze that data to make decisions. When Solomon wrote the Proverbs he gave leaders a series of statements that become foundation blocks for building strong character which leads to wise decisions. Read more »

Throughout history and in every culture wise leaders have universally recognized the virtue of justice and the treachery of injustice. Read Psalm 140:12-13.

Psalm 140 acknowledges that the character of God is the absolute standard for justice. A leader’s ability to have awareness of this moral standard is part of our having been created in the image of God. Read more »