The Lord spoke through Prophet Jeremiah condemning leaders of Israel for leading His people in recklessness. (Jeremiah 23:32) Recklessness is defined as behaving without proper caution, careless of consequences, irresponsible, rash, wild, and temperamental. Reckless leadership will lead to distrust, distress, volatile situations, and a lack of unity. Generally, reckless leaders are proud, belligerent, dominating, dictating, and want to ignore the consequences. A team with such reckless members could not make much progress.
Impatience: It is common to see an impatient reckless driver, during busy peak hours of traffic in cities. Honking, changing lanes, jumping signals, and risky overtaking of other vehicles. In search of results, reckless leaders would not consider keeping the rules. Such leaders would set unattainable goals and drive their people to achieve them like taskmasters in Egypt. (Exodus 1:14) Reckless leaders make their followers bitter.
Selfishness: Reckless leaders are also selfish, and seek ways to add to their prestige, perks, privileges, and power. In their path to success, they can walk over people, and create many casualties. David with an inflated ego ordered a census, which was opposed by his army general Joab. That resulted in the death of 70000 people. (II Samuel 24)
Reactive: Reckless leaders do not discern and plan. They do not take preventive and proactive steps. Hence, they do a lot of firefighting instead of creative and progressive work.
Short-term perspective: Immediate gains could be the enemy of long-term goals and successes. Esau was interested in the immediate relief from hunger, rather than the long-term, first-born rights. (Genesis 25:29-34)
Vain and Vanity projects: Reckless leaders are fascinated with worthless projects. Without purpose, they get entangled in projects that create long-term problems for their followers and the organization. Aaron started worship without waiting for the Word of God through Moses. Worship without Word could become pagan worship. (Exodus 32:1-4)
Violate protocols: Nadab and Abihu did not follow the regulations and died while offering sacrifices. They were aware of the procedures and processes of worship that Moses had taught, and Aaron, their father had demonstrated. (Leviticus 10:1)
Am I a reckless person or a diligent disciple?