Almost every organization has someone in a position of leadership but the effective organizations have learned to distinguish between having someone in a position of leadership and having an eldership or a rulership. Many have failed to understand that ‘’rulership’’ or ‘’eldership’’ is not leadership.
Any leader that does not understand his destination may lead the ship in a wrong direction and then we say the ship is bad; it is not the ship but the leader. Anyone in charge of the ship gives the ship definition and direction, it may be leader in the ship, an elder in the ship or a ruler in the ship.
The unfortunate truth is that most African churches, organization, and government have people occupying offices who do not know the first thing about leading people. Given my perspective, it should be clear that having a title or position does not make one a leader, anymore than swimming in the ocean makes one a fish.
Society’s problem and great deficit is that we do not have enough leaders who understand leadership styles, approach, and also principles. Our society needs people in politics, ministry and business who know how to apply their leadership styles in the boardroom; we need political leaders who seek their guidance from God and not from thugs and elders. Our society longs for statesmen but it gets rulers,tyrants and exploiters.
Leadership is one of the most observed and least understood phenomena on earth. On my study on leadership, I discovered that voluminous materials are currently being published on the topic, yet there seems to be no simple definition of it.
Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus discovered over 850 different definitions of leadership; I think this may be one of the major reasons why today’s leaders are unsure how they measure up. Too many standards to meet!
By reading and research I have come across various definitions on leadership but the following is a small sampling of the helpful definitions that have been offered by some leadership experts;
‘’Leadership is the process of persuasion or example by which an individual induces a group to pursue objectives held by a leader or shared by the leader and his or her followers.’’
John w Gardner
‘’The central task of leadership is influencing God’s people toward God’s purpose.’’
Robert Clinton
‘’Leadership is influence, the ability of one person to influence others.’’
Oswald Sanders
‘’Leadership over human beings is exercised when persons with certain motives and purposes mobilize, in competition or conflict with others, institutional, political, psychological, and other resources so as to arouse, engage, and satisfy the motives of followers. ‘’
James MacGregor Burns
‘’A Christian leader is someone who is called by God to lead, leads with and through Christlike character; and demonstrate place. ‘’ George Barna
All of these definitions help bring focus upon the role of leaders. Burns, one of the most respected scholars in leadership theory, explain that leaders are motive-driven. And he notes that leaders may have first aroused motives within their followers before they can engage and satisfy those motives.
A leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don’t want to do and like it. Any leaders who make no difference in their followers’ lives are not actually leaders. I heartily agree that leaders must exert influence if they are to lead.
Effective leadership must consider the following three C’s which is very crucial in leadership; call, character, and competencies. Leadership either in business, church, and politics should be ultimately measured not according to the leader’s skills but on the leader’s results.
Popularity is not leadership, and leadership is not status but service, not title but task, not power but purpose, not by been aggressive but been assertive. It is not what you have but what you can offer. It is not where you are but who you are. Many of our leaders accept status, title but neglect service and task, forgetting that its responsibility that calls for leadership and any leader that fails to accept responsibility will surely die in liability.
It is not the crown that calls for the king but ability to respond to situation. Every position of a leader is a cry for solution provider, problem solver. It’s right to intuitively know that claiming to be a leader or holding a leadership position does not make someone a leader. There is no leadership without followership. The higher you want to climb, the more you need leadership skills and ability, and the more you try to do in life, the more you will find that leadership makes the difference. You can overcome many challenges in a church and organization, but you cannot compensate for the lack of good leadership. Believe me that nothing will cripple a nation, organization, church, business and home more completely than the absence of effective leadership.
As you strive to build your organization, business strategy, family and church structure, I want you to remember this, stated by one of the leadership gurus, John C Maxwell. That;
Personnel determine the potential of the organization
Relationships determine the morale of the organization
Structures determine the size of the organization
Vision determines the direction of the organization
Leadership determines the success of the organization
Personal and organizational effectiveness is proportional to the strength of leadership. No organization can grow beyond its leadership. No matter where you go or what position you hold, I’ve learned that ‘’leadership is leadership.’’ Everything changes, time rotates, culture changes and varies but leadership principles remain constant.
Stand out and Lead!!!
hincyte
Friday, January 21, 2011
ABORTION
ABORTION
According to the English mini dictionary, ‘’abortion is the deliberate bringing to an end of a human pregnancy. Abortion is the extermination of the future.
Abortion is the termination of foetus in a mother’s womb, and to abort means to terminate life before its full potential has or can be realized, before the person, plant or animal is given an opportunity to fulfill its full potential.
I know someone must have started questioning herself by her past events, relax and allow your present to determine your future. You’re not going to be condemned but lifted.
The abortion in view is not only the termination of biological foetus, but the destruction of seed which ought to make a forest, abortion of potentials, abortion of dreams, abortion of ideas and vision.
Everything made by God was created with the hidden ability to fulfill its course. The bible record of creation states that the seed of everything has ability in itself to produce after its kind.
Adam, the first man to commit abortion in the Garden of Eden, when he aborted the vision God has placed in his heart and destroyed the directives of the manufacturer; he changed the lives of the entire human race, including You!
The fact that you were born is evidence that God knows earth needed the potential you have. It would be sad that you leave this planet without giving birth to those dreams, ideas, inventions, and vision and remember vision rules the world.
Abortion, it robs life of its essence and denies the future its value. Every man that lives by Insight sees in every seed a tree, in a bird a flock, in a cow a herd, in a girl a woman, in a boy a man, and in a man he sees a Nation.
It’s true that the grave yards are full of great men and women who never became great because they did not give ability to their responsibility.
Any Nation that performs so much abortion, will ultimately loose so much potential. The wealth of a Nation is determined by the quality of people living there-in. Do something to improve your world.
‘’potential aborted condemns the future’’
hincyte
According to the English mini dictionary, ‘’abortion is the deliberate bringing to an end of a human pregnancy. Abortion is the extermination of the future.
Abortion is the termination of foetus in a mother’s womb, and to abort means to terminate life before its full potential has or can be realized, before the person, plant or animal is given an opportunity to fulfill its full potential.
I know someone must have started questioning herself by her past events, relax and allow your present to determine your future. You’re not going to be condemned but lifted.
The abortion in view is not only the termination of biological foetus, but the destruction of seed which ought to make a forest, abortion of potentials, abortion of dreams, abortion of ideas and vision.
Everything made by God was created with the hidden ability to fulfill its course. The bible record of creation states that the seed of everything has ability in itself to produce after its kind.
Adam, the first man to commit abortion in the Garden of Eden, when he aborted the vision God has placed in his heart and destroyed the directives of the manufacturer; he changed the lives of the entire human race, including You!
The fact that you were born is evidence that God knows earth needed the potential you have. It would be sad that you leave this planet without giving birth to those dreams, ideas, inventions, and vision and remember vision rules the world.
Abortion, it robs life of its essence and denies the future its value. Every man that lives by Insight sees in every seed a tree, in a bird a flock, in a cow a herd, in a girl a woman, in a boy a man, and in a man he sees a Nation.
It’s true that the grave yards are full of great men and women who never became great because they did not give ability to their responsibility.
Any Nation that performs so much abortion, will ultimately loose so much potential. The wealth of a Nation is determined by the quality of people living there-in. Do something to improve your world.
‘’potential aborted condemns the future’’
hincyte
Thursday, January 20, 2011
SUCCESS HABITS
Habits are what we do continuously over a long period of time and therefore it becomes a part of us. Though, we do not decide our destiny directly, we decide on our habit.
Habits determine our character, and our character determines our destiny. We can therefore conclude that good and godly habits birth success. Success comes when you achieve your objectives or set goals. But for a Christian success is the achievement of God set goals for our lives.
Success goes beyond material acquisition. If you must perform better in life you need to consistently upgrade yourself, let your habits be consistent with your destiny.
Destiny is from the word destination. Many are too bothered about their destiny while they ignore habits, it’s so easy to get to your destination but what sustains you is habit.
It’s your thought that forms your words, and your words determine your actions, your actions determine your habits and your habits finally become your character. Your character either makes you or destroys you.
If you don’t make conscious efforts to change your old or bad habits, cultivating new ones would be difficult. How do you cultivate a new habit?
MEDITATION:
Meditation gives birth to revelation. Meditation is been able to think deeply and reflect . It means to be thoughtful of something, to roll things over in thought. If you are too busy to think you are too busy to succeed.
RESPONSIBILITY:
Responsibility comes from the two words ‘’response’’ and ‘’ability’’ which means ability to respond. You have to take 100% responsibility of your life. Responsibility is the key to true freedom.
SELF IMPROVEMENT:
Self improvement is adding value to your life. And one of the major ways to self improvement is reading.
Through reading you can access the mind of great men. Whatever your profession is or heights you get to in life, there’s always something more you do not know. You need to keep improving yourself to stay relevant. Once you stop learning, you start dying.
POSITIVE TALK:
What do you say about yourself? Your life will move in the direction of your confessions. What forms your confessions is determined by what you eat. What you watch, what you listen to, what you read etc. All of these form the content of your dominant thoughts which then translates to your speech. So ask yourself “What am I eating” because Input invariably corresponds to output. Practice selective viewing and listening so that you can control what you say because your world is controlled by your words.
ACTION ORIENTED:
You must be action oriented. God designed the world such that nothing moves until you move. You don’t get rewarded for what you are planning to do; you only get rewarded for what you have done. Be somebody who always carries out his action. Action delay is destiny delay.
PERSISTENCE:
Develop an attitude of not giving up until you get your desired result. When you persist you soon reach a gush out.
PRAYER:
Prayer is one of the essential keys to success.
Success rates in life largely depend on what you do. Bad habits are easy to form but hard to live by, good habits are hard to form but easy to live by. Be consistent on your newly formed good habits over the old or bad ones because good habits will promote your success rate.
‘’Human beings are creatures of habits.’’
Habits determine our character, and our character determines our destiny. We can therefore conclude that good and godly habits birth success. Success comes when you achieve your objectives or set goals. But for a Christian success is the achievement of God set goals for our lives.
Success goes beyond material acquisition. If you must perform better in life you need to consistently upgrade yourself, let your habits be consistent with your destiny.
Destiny is from the word destination. Many are too bothered about their destiny while they ignore habits, it’s so easy to get to your destination but what sustains you is habit.
It’s your thought that forms your words, and your words determine your actions, your actions determine your habits and your habits finally become your character. Your character either makes you or destroys you.
If you don’t make conscious efforts to change your old or bad habits, cultivating new ones would be difficult. How do you cultivate a new habit?
MEDITATION:
Meditation gives birth to revelation. Meditation is been able to think deeply and reflect . It means to be thoughtful of something, to roll things over in thought. If you are too busy to think you are too busy to succeed.
RESPONSIBILITY:
Responsibility comes from the two words ‘’response’’ and ‘’ability’’ which means ability to respond. You have to take 100% responsibility of your life. Responsibility is the key to true freedom.
SELF IMPROVEMENT:
Self improvement is adding value to your life. And one of the major ways to self improvement is reading.
Through reading you can access the mind of great men. Whatever your profession is or heights you get to in life, there’s always something more you do not know. You need to keep improving yourself to stay relevant. Once you stop learning, you start dying.
POSITIVE TALK:
What do you say about yourself? Your life will move in the direction of your confessions. What forms your confessions is determined by what you eat. What you watch, what you listen to, what you read etc. All of these form the content of your dominant thoughts which then translates to your speech. So ask yourself “What am I eating” because Input invariably corresponds to output. Practice selective viewing and listening so that you can control what you say because your world is controlled by your words.
ACTION ORIENTED:
You must be action oriented. God designed the world such that nothing moves until you move. You don’t get rewarded for what you are planning to do; you only get rewarded for what you have done. Be somebody who always carries out his action. Action delay is destiny delay.
PERSISTENCE:
Develop an attitude of not giving up until you get your desired result. When you persist you soon reach a gush out.
PRAYER:
Prayer is one of the essential keys to success.
Success rates in life largely depend on what you do. Bad habits are easy to form but hard to live by, good habits are hard to form but easy to live by. Be consistent on your newly formed good habits over the old or bad ones because good habits will promote your success rate.
‘’Human beings are creatures of habits.’’
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
VISION RULES THE WORLD
We are in the world where people mistake purpose and mission for vision, break the scripture with our culture, and turn journeys into destinations.
Permit me to say that it is only human beings that have visions which can speak the things that be not as though they were. Check out the likes of Martin Luther king, Pastor Sam Adeyemi, Bishop David Oyedepo (Covenant University), Fela Durotoye… what all these people have in common is that, vision took them there before they were there physically, they lived in the reality of their vision before it became their vicinity.
It is only vision that permits you to live the future while still in the present. To a man without a vision, the past determines his present; but the man carrying a vision sees the end from the beginning. A man with vision doesn’t have need for a seer. God wants you to have sight, but never live by your sight. Live by insight which the word of God provides.
A life without a vision is a life without a mission (assignment), and a life without mission is life that’s set out for confusion and frustration in the presence of opposition. Vision is the source and hope of life, your hope comes from your vision. Vision is the source of confidence. The greatest gift ever given to mankind is not the gift of sight, but the gift of vision. The moment you stop seeing the future on the inside, you start dying on the outside.
I have discovered that life is measured per second not per year; but the quality of life is measure per thought, not per second. You are a product of your thoughts. Sight is a function of the eyes, but vision is a function of the heart. Don’t trust your eyes but trust your heart. Remember this, ‘’eyes that look are common, but eyes that see are rare’’.
There’s nothing noble or noteworthy on earth that is not a product of vision. African nations are suffering at large because we are not aligned with the present age and dispensation; Africa is the poorest continent, not because we lack natural resources, but because we lack supernatural resources and a deep understanding of what’s essential for national growth. There’s an American dream, where is the Nigerian dream? The reason for New York was because there was Old York; vision is what gave birth to New York. Your present is a reflection of your past, but your future is the end-product of your present.
African countries will maintain their present status quo until they stop breaking basic principles that govern success. Anytime a country or a man stops leaving on vision, he starts living under depression. The change in Lagos state, Nigeria is as a result of vision not ambition. Let me make this clear that there is a difference between a leader and a politician. One leads whiles the other rules. Leadership deals with vision, rulership deals with ambition. Vision is what makes a leader, the vision of a leader is what informs or bring about transformation. Vision gives birth to inventions that transform lives.
It was the vision of a desk-sized computer that inspired Steve Jobs to invent the desktop computer, it was the vision of light that possessed Thomas Edison to invent the light bulb, it was the vision of flight that motivated the Wright brothers to invent the airplane; and it was the vision of Bill gate that birth the most influential software company in the world, Microsoft.
What you don’t know will affect your economic future. It is not what we get that makes us valuable, it is what we become. There’s a huge difference between becoming anything and becoming something. People who strive to become anything end up becoming nothing. Becoming anything is a function of sight, but becoming something is a function of vision.
Vision births ideas, and ideas birth value, and value is what is transformed to wealth. You can sell an idea, but you can’t sell a vision. They say ‘’what is worth living for is worth dying for’’, but the only thing that worth living for without the requirement of death is vision. Your vision preserves you. Even in the midst of the most turbulent storm, your vision is what presents you life and replace the fear of dying with the courage of living. If you can see it, believe me, you can live for it. “Before you can get there, you must see there.”
It is vision that keeps the earth rotating, it is what makes plants grow, and it is what also sustains reproduction. Our home needs vision, our family needs vision, and our churches need vision. You need vision!
Our nation today is in desperate need of vision. The challenge of our nation demands men and women who will see beyond the endured present into a preferred future, people with the skill to transform vision into reality, and with the courage to inspire others to do the same.
I am yet to see a nation that will survive without a vision. Any individual that tries to acquire wealth or success by ambition is clearly heading for destruction. The wise King of Israel, King Solomon affirmed in the book of proverbs that “where there is no vision, the people perish.” (Prov. 29:18) Where there’s no revelation of the future, people tend to live in darkness. And to churches or ministries existing without vision, very soon people will start leaving to another parish. When a parish doesn’t have a vision, it will perish.
Every individual is designed to make a difference in their generation; you are born to lead, to achieve something great. But your vision awaits your action. Live by insight(hincyt), not by outsight. Let the unseen in you propel you to see beyond the seen and put you on the scene. If you can picture it, then you can print it out. The future you cannot picture, you cannot feature. And the moment you stop seeing the future, you start dying in the present.
This book is designed to challenge you to live a vision-driving life, to discover and redefine, and to understand the power of vision. It will help you to see beyond what you are called to do. You cannot be better or greater than your vision. Believe in your vision, and act on it. Your greatest asset lies within you, but your greatest adversary lies around you; your best days are not ahead of you but right inside your vision, they lie within you. Challenge yourself, get inspired so that you won’t expire, get informed so that you won’t be deformed. Your vision is more real than your present realities. Don’t trust your eyes.
Permit me to say that it is only human beings that have visions which can speak the things that be not as though they were. Check out the likes of Martin Luther king, Pastor Sam Adeyemi, Bishop David Oyedepo (Covenant University), Fela Durotoye… what all these people have in common is that, vision took them there before they were there physically, they lived in the reality of their vision before it became their vicinity.
It is only vision that permits you to live the future while still in the present. To a man without a vision, the past determines his present; but the man carrying a vision sees the end from the beginning. A man with vision doesn’t have need for a seer. God wants you to have sight, but never live by your sight. Live by insight which the word of God provides.
A life without a vision is a life without a mission (assignment), and a life without mission is life that’s set out for confusion and frustration in the presence of opposition. Vision is the source and hope of life, your hope comes from your vision. Vision is the source of confidence. The greatest gift ever given to mankind is not the gift of sight, but the gift of vision. The moment you stop seeing the future on the inside, you start dying on the outside.
I have discovered that life is measured per second not per year; but the quality of life is measure per thought, not per second. You are a product of your thoughts. Sight is a function of the eyes, but vision is a function of the heart. Don’t trust your eyes but trust your heart. Remember this, ‘’eyes that look are common, but eyes that see are rare’’.
There’s nothing noble or noteworthy on earth that is not a product of vision. African nations are suffering at large because we are not aligned with the present age and dispensation; Africa is the poorest continent, not because we lack natural resources, but because we lack supernatural resources and a deep understanding of what’s essential for national growth. There’s an American dream, where is the Nigerian dream? The reason for New York was because there was Old York; vision is what gave birth to New York. Your present is a reflection of your past, but your future is the end-product of your present.
African countries will maintain their present status quo until they stop breaking basic principles that govern success. Anytime a country or a man stops leaving on vision, he starts living under depression. The change in Lagos state, Nigeria is as a result of vision not ambition. Let me make this clear that there is a difference between a leader and a politician. One leads whiles the other rules. Leadership deals with vision, rulership deals with ambition. Vision is what makes a leader, the vision of a leader is what informs or bring about transformation. Vision gives birth to inventions that transform lives.
It was the vision of a desk-sized computer that inspired Steve Jobs to invent the desktop computer, it was the vision of light that possessed Thomas Edison to invent the light bulb, it was the vision of flight that motivated the Wright brothers to invent the airplane; and it was the vision of Bill gate that birth the most influential software company in the world, Microsoft.
What you don’t know will affect your economic future. It is not what we get that makes us valuable, it is what we become. There’s a huge difference between becoming anything and becoming something. People who strive to become anything end up becoming nothing. Becoming anything is a function of sight, but becoming something is a function of vision.
Vision births ideas, and ideas birth value, and value is what is transformed to wealth. You can sell an idea, but you can’t sell a vision. They say ‘’what is worth living for is worth dying for’’, but the only thing that worth living for without the requirement of death is vision. Your vision preserves you. Even in the midst of the most turbulent storm, your vision is what presents you life and replace the fear of dying with the courage of living. If you can see it, believe me, you can live for it. “Before you can get there, you must see there.”
It is vision that keeps the earth rotating, it is what makes plants grow, and it is what also sustains reproduction. Our home needs vision, our family needs vision, and our churches need vision. You need vision!
Our nation today is in desperate need of vision. The challenge of our nation demands men and women who will see beyond the endured present into a preferred future, people with the skill to transform vision into reality, and with the courage to inspire others to do the same.
I am yet to see a nation that will survive without a vision. Any individual that tries to acquire wealth or success by ambition is clearly heading for destruction. The wise King of Israel, King Solomon affirmed in the book of proverbs that “where there is no vision, the people perish.” (Prov. 29:18) Where there’s no revelation of the future, people tend to live in darkness. And to churches or ministries existing without vision, very soon people will start leaving to another parish. When a parish doesn’t have a vision, it will perish.
Every individual is designed to make a difference in their generation; you are born to lead, to achieve something great. But your vision awaits your action. Live by insight(hincyt), not by outsight. Let the unseen in you propel you to see beyond the seen and put you on the scene. If you can picture it, then you can print it out. The future you cannot picture, you cannot feature. And the moment you stop seeing the future, you start dying in the present.
This book is designed to challenge you to live a vision-driving life, to discover and redefine, and to understand the power of vision. It will help you to see beyond what you are called to do. You cannot be better or greater than your vision. Believe in your vision, and act on it. Your greatest asset lies within you, but your greatest adversary lies around you; your best days are not ahead of you but right inside your vision, they lie within you. Challenge yourself, get inspired so that you won’t expire, get informed so that you won’t be deformed. Your vision is more real than your present realities. Don’t trust your eyes.
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