In an essay, Wendell Berry urges us to be aware of two opposite impulses within: exploitation and nurture. Here's how he describes the two (abridged). As a pastor and leader, this moved and convicted me this morning. I hope it does the same for you:

"The exploiter is a specialist, an expert; the nurturer is not. The standard of the exploiter is efficiency; the nurturer's is care. The exploiter's goal is profit; the nurturer's is health. Whereas the exploiter asks how much and how quickly can it produce; the nurturer asks ...

... how much can it give and not be diminished? The competence of the exploiter is in organization; that of the nurturer is in order—one that accommodates itself to mystery. The exploiter typically serves an organization; the nurturer serves land, household, community, place.

The exploiter thinks in terms of numbers, quantities, 'hard facts'; the nurturer in terms of character, condition, quality, kind."

—Wendell Berry, "The Unsettling of America"