Making Vision Stick 1: The Greatest Challenge of Leadership

Over the next few weeks, I’m planning to share with our church's Vision Team the meat of a great little book I just read by Andy Stanley called Making Vision Stick . I thought about buying a copy for each of our Vision-Team members, but thought we’d all be better served if I cut through the fluff, carved the meat off the bone, & served it hot & fresh in bite-sized pieces.

So… Open up! Here’s comes some good eatin’!!

The Greatest Challenge of Leadership: Making Vision Stick

The top executives of some powerful companies like Starbucks & GM attribute their well-documented floundering to the fact that they lost their vision… They turned their attention away from the target that led them to their greatness in the first place. This is all-too easy—even for a church—and has 3 primary causes: 1) success, 2) failure, & 3) everything in between.

The passing of time makes room for our human tendancies to lose focus & drift away from simplicity. In other words, time robs vision of it’s “stickyness”. Why? Because, as Andy puts it, “vision is about what could be & should be, but life is about right this minute.”

But the good news is that an uphill battle is NOT an impossible one, & God is the One Who gives vision… If He has given it, then He will help bring it to pass!

So, how do you get your God-given vision to "stick"?

I'll begin sharing what Andy says in my next post.