LEADERSHIP & STEWARDSHIP
Leadership is stewardship of people entrusted to you.
- New to leading people?
- A seasoned executive navigating change?
- Are you and your team working from different expectations?
Leadership begins with how we see and care for people. A title may give us responsibility. How we carry it is revealed in our character, our decisions and the way we treat those entrusted to us.
Competence matters. So do humility, a willingness to seek counsel and the courage to do what is right. Serving people includes clear expectations, honest conversations and accountability. Practical wisdom and spiritual discernment belong in that work together.
A STANDALONE REFLECTION
Who has been entrusted to your care, and what do they need from you?
Take the questions at your own pace. Use what helps; leave room for what you are still trying to understand. A next step may be preserving what is helping or continuing to pay attention.
Where this comes from.
God is the Foundation to which I am anchored. My faith informs how I understand leadership as stewardship of people entrusted to me: character before competence, servant-hearted influence, humility, seeking counsel, courage, practical wisdom and spiritual discernment. Joshua 1:9 has a foundational place in my life and in Living and Leading an Anchored Life. Joshua 1:7–9 is a place to return as I consider courage and faithful obedience. These belong within a wider responsibility to serve and care for people.
Prayer, seeking, asking, trusting and gratitude remain underneath that responsibility. I can seek God’s wisdom while listening carefully and checking my own assumptions, without claiming that my preferred answer is His direction.
The book connects stewardship with seeking to understand, humility, courage, grace and accountability. The 3Ps, the 3Vs and Observe → Analyze → Align → Execute → Steward give practical expression to that posture. They help us look closely, seek understanding and take responsibility for what follows.
This reflection is a new standalone application of Carlos’s ideas, not an excerpt from the book or Companion.
Would it help to talk this through?
Bring a responsibility, a difficult conversation or something you are trying to understand about leading people. We can begin there.