Gospel teamwork

I often find myself being sucked into work culture and leadership articles. For some reason, leadership studies and workplace culture-building are important to me. Some of that is formed by my teen years in Civil Air Patrol, in which I discovered how difficult it is to transform children into serious, mission-minded adults. So when someone claims to understand what it takes to motivate and lead their colleagues to success, I pay attention. When someone goes on about emotional intelligence and the need for leaders to be trust-worthy and servant-like, I nod along vigorously.

But I keep having a nagging thought: Why are "team culture," "company culture," and "leadership" such studied disciplines by well-paid consultants in our day? Is this because we've always put up with horrible leaders and coworkers in the past and just now we've decided to study it for the sake of our mental health and productivity?

No. The reason we study this and pay money to consultants is because the need has grown.

Frankly, we are spending a lot of money studying and attempting to learn basic virtues. Except that in a culture without shared values or a law of kindness, we are now learning them as adults, and only as tools to get ahead. Put more bluntly, we are dealing with the fallout of the loss of law and love.
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