Bringing Leadership Home: Vision and it's Communication

Bringing Leadership Home : Vision and it's  Communication

[My Offline Bible] Proverbs 29
18 Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he. 23 A man's pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.

[My Offline Bible] Habakkuk 2
2 And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.

[My Offline Bible] 1 Corinthians 14
8 For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?

Leaders are led by visions. The people who are led follow vision and not just the leaders. The connection between the leader and the led is the quality of communication system installed in between them.

No system should be run without a vision. Lives and team entities so run will be in constant confusion and conflict. Where there is no vision, people cast off restraints. Vision is a guide that helps our blindness. We are blind without vision.

When the blind leads the blind, they both end in a ditch, so said our Lord Jesus Christ.

The vision connects with the leader's heart and the the leader's heart to his mouth and his mouth to the ears and the hearts of the led. Any disconnect in the pathway results in relationship dysfunction that threatens body safety and productivity.

Leaders are called heads not just for being on top but for the organs residing in it. The head houses the brain, the eyes, the olfactory, the hearing, the tasting and the speaking and it can also feel. And so it feels from and for the body and process the information received to be able to respond and give commands that will ensure the well being of the entire system.

When the body cannot exchange information with the body, the body is left to suffer external aggression up to death.

When good intentions are badly communicated the result is confusion and discord.

A vision may be developed from the mental picture of a preferred state, maximised potential, desires accomplished, problem solved, needs met and purpose fulfilled.

Meanwhile, God given vision is powered by the Word of God and the Holy Spirit to accomplish all these in times appointed.

When the vision is a corporate vision that involves more than one person or a team, it must first foster unity and oneness in purpose and in pursuit if it is to be achieved.

A corporate vision is what leaders work with which when fulfilled creates a platform upon which individuals personal visions can thrive to fulfilment. Leaders can't afford to lead with their personal visions.

Communication is crucial in leadership. In Habakkuk, God said the vision must be clearly written so that those who will run with it will be able to read and draw inspiration, direction, motion and speed to accomplish it.

A vision not properly communicated will cause more confusion than solve a problem. When  the communication system of a team is negatively affected, confusion sets in and the noblest of projects become abandoned.

In Genesis 11, God saw that the people were one in rebellion and there was nothing they had imagined to do that they wouldn't be able to accomplish and the only way out was to hit their communication system and it worked. It always works.

Great corporations have been built by following the rules of effective communication and to build a home we must bring that same system that works at work home.

Our God given vision for our homes must be well communicated to help us focus on what's important and be blinded to distractions. When it is properly communicated, we share our good intentions and commit all we are and have to great futures together as couples work together towards their preferred havens.

The root of so many problems is the inability of couples to express their good intentions, hopes and aspirations for their marriages in a way that the other can understand, appreciate and get involved in.

That's why understanding the language the other person speaks and the wavelength at which he or she hears is crucial.

Just as organizations create convenient and established communication pathways, homes too should and the couple should be committed to it.

Just as a corporate leader won't lead without a vision and wouldn't operate without painting the picture clearly for his team same way we shouldn't lead at home without a vision properly communicated.

When visions aren't properly communicated, it compounds the confusion of the led and response is derailed not for rebellion but for lack of understanding. Many followers' mistakes are results of this and better outcomes are received by correcting the error in communication than correcting the follower.
Homes are prone to our error of taking things for granted and anything not attended to turns out badly. Vision and it's communication are thing we shouldn't take for granted. Objectives and goals must be shared and mutually committed to. There shouldn't be pursuits that's not contributive to the overall vision of the home and that's coordinated by proper communication and there shouldn't be a vision not incorporated into the overall vision otherwise the house will be divided and it won't stand that also is done by vision.

My question is, what is the vision you run with concerning your home and marriage? Is the vision shared or it is just you running? Are you living in assumptions that your spouse has a good understanding of the vision picture?

We can't afford not to work with a God given vision for our home and that vision must be made crystal clear for the other person to run with...

My prayer is that God will give grace to do whatever our homes need to create a place of comfort and bliss for a lifelong peace and quiet for ourselves in Jesus name.

Good morning.

Join us tonight by 6pm at

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Shagari Federal Estate
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Lagos

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