Leadership Legacy: How Executives Build People, Cultures, and Companies that Last (Episode # 535U)

This is all about hearing people in your workplace and leaving those people leaving the organizations and leaving yourself in a better position so leadership legacy does include you it doesn't exclude you and remember last time i was talking about What's involved in being our marketplace ministry leader? And so we're just going to add another little nuance to it today.

So when we talk about developing people in the organization, we're talking about seeing the strengths of those people, seeing the gifts that they bring to the workplace.

And when we see those strengths, when we see those gifts, we want to see the beauty in each person and to further develop the beauty that they're bringing.

You want to identify what do they need in order to continue to do their best or to step up and do even better than they have been doing.

Some people need a word of encouragement and other people might need a little kick in the rear end a little bit of a rebuke because they really haven't been living up to their potential and up to their true gifts.

So it'll be different for each person.

The bottom line, when you are a ministry leader in the workplace, you are functioning as a mirror.

And you're holding up a mirror so that people can see themselves so that you can then help them to call themselves to their higher selves.

That's really what we're talking about in terms of being that marketplace ministry leader.

When we look at it from the organizational lens, you're asking the organization that you're leading and you're saying, what is it that we stand for? How are we treating our customers? How are we treating our partners, our suppliers, our clients? There are some ethical ways of doing business, ethical ways of showing up.

And you want to be constantly evaluating whether or not you are actually leading in the ethical manner we're talking about.

So you're holding up the mirror this time, not only just to individuals, but to the organization itself.

How well are you living out the values that you espouse and that you say that you believe in? How consistent is that process? Then for yourself, when you have served and fulfilled your mission in the workplace, the question becomes, what is next for you? Just because you retire from the workplace doesn't mean that you retire from your legacy.

It doesn't mean you retire from being a ministry person.

leader in some other capacity.

So when you are looking at legacy, you're leaving people better, you're leaving the organization better, and you're also defining what is next for you.

And think about it this way.

God works in a 360 degree way, meaning he's not going to resource individuals in the organization.

and the organization and leave you out.

You too are going to be developed in resource in some way as a result of your service so that at some point you can say, well done, good and faithful servant for the work that you have put in.

So as we're closing out today, I'd like to share with you a reading from Genesis, the 41st chapter, and this is from the life of Joseph.

And we know that Joseph had been enslaved down in Egypt because his brothers had sold him into slavery.

And at some point he ends up working for the Pharaoh and he becomes the ruler in essence over all of Egypt because of the gifts and talents that he was bringing to the secular marketplace, if you will.

So Genesis 41st chapter, starting with verse 33 says, Now, therefore, let Pharaoh select a discerning and wise man and set him over the land of Egypt.

And I want to remind you, this is Joseph speaking, and he's saying this because he's interpreted Pharaoh's dream and God has revealed to Pharaoh.