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Please, be a vision owner

Change the topic cause i felt that before a leader can cast a vision, he needs to own the vision.

They always say that leadership is a lonely job. That there are times where no one would understand what you go through. Everyone expects you to be up there all the time. Sometimes even when you struggle with your faith, you can't show it to your people.

From a very human perspective, when our leaders challenge us with a vision, we'll gladly follow. Have you ever asked where did these leaders get their vision from?

Some say they get it from their leaders. But where did our leader's leader's get it from? You get what i mean? It has to start from somewhere. We cannot always be depending on our leaders to challenge us for a vision.

Some say its from God. Then how do your receive the vision from God? Does every leader see a the light like Paul? Or dream like John? Does every leadership decision have to come from God? Does God whisper into your ears about every restructuring? So how does God actual ensure that leaders get going in his plans?

In leadership, when you hit a certain level, you know that you are pretty much on your own. For example, in the corporate level, a manager cannot expect a CEO to be breathing down his or her neck about the management of his/her staff every other day. The CEO can provide the covering but the manager is pretty much on his/her own. That is why they are employed in the 1st place! not to be the CEO's puppet but to take the burden off the CEO.

In the same way, when you hit a certain level like being a key leader in a certain school, camp, region, area, district, min ops, area of interest, you were never placed in that position to wait for your leaders to challenge you. It is always your job, not your leader's job to dream for your respective area of ownership. I make it a point in my leadership never to micro manage my leaders when it comes to dreaming for their camps. I may challenge them to dream, or to give a macro vision for my own level and that is my job, but never to dream on their behalf. My point to them is simple, if you are not going to dream for your own area which you are responsible for, i am not going to dream for you and at the end of the day, whether or not there is growth will be because you chose to or chose not to do something about it. Leaders! never pamper your people by dreaming and casting visions on their behalf.

In the bible, John 10, Jesus spoke about the hired hand and the owner. The hired hand was never ever going to dream for what is in his hands because its not his job. But the owner looks out for every opportunity and chance, to do something about the things in his hands.

Some of us, we are like the hired hand of our leaders. The group belongs to be leader. I will just support his dreams. My leader will challenge me when its time for me to grow.

Or can we become an owner? Over my dead body will i allow what is in my hands to lose value. When people own a vision, they will pray for it, work for it, sacrifice for it, and history have shown, some will even die for it.

Ownership is the prerequisite of a vision.

A few question for you to take back:

1) Are we allowing our people time and room to dream on their own? Or are we just pursuing ministry at such neck breaking speed that people are just trying to keep up with us and our dreams?

2) Are we constantly dreaming and initiating things or just waiting for someone else to come along and challenge us?

Regards,

jie hui

Labels: Leadership

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Friday, June 27, 2008