Bringing Leadership Home :Accountability

Bringing Leadership Home: Accountability

[My Offline Bible] Matthew 18
23 Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened unto a certain king, which would take account of his servants.

[My Offline Bible] Hebrews 13
17 Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.

Being accountable is one thing so difficult for people. Demand for accountability is received as a doubt on one's integrity. At times it is seen as questioning one's high office. Many seek high offices or leadership positions in order to avoid being accountable to anyone.

Meanwhile accountability is the mark of nobility. We can't have the kind of freedom that absolves us of accountability. Accountability is a mutual responsibility between the leader and the led in a true and responsible leadership system. You have no right to lead a people you won't be accountable to and once you submit to a leader you have a responsibility of being accountable to such.

In our offices, we demand accountability from every officer including the leader. We account for every resource, from money to materials, from time to people, from raw materials to finished products, activities and events are expected to be accounted for. Daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly we account for the metabolism of the system to know what's building up, what's degrading and why. We account for everything to know where waste, negligence, diversion and such like are undermining the purpose and the success of the system.

When our accounts are adequately monitored we are informed as to what direction to put in which and more efforts and in so doing we build great systems that sustain all stakeholders.

But at home, accounting for what we have and do is seen as unnecessary, yet we got married to care and to hold...

To ask how time was spent is tantamount to barging into one's privacy. To ask how money was spent is seen as subtle control. To ask what kind of people we flock with is curbing one's movements. To demand explanation for anything is undermining one's trustworthiness. Eventually people become afraid of demanding accountability and of course, come under the threat of the repercussions of lack of accountability.

The people who our errors and mistakes will hurt the most deserve our accountability. We have a responsibility to give account of what we have in money and materials, of what we do with our time and of the people in our lives to those who care the most about us. particularly our spouses.

I once listened to Dr Tunde Joda of Christ Chapel International Churches say, if lots of men in prisons had listened to their wives they wouldn't have found themselves there. I believe same goes also for women. Yet, those we feel shouldn't demand accountability from us end up suffering when we had abused the resources put in our trust.

If it's good at the office, it'll be better at home. If you need to clock in and out at work to honor your contract with your employers to make the company work smoothly and become great, then do same at home. Tell where you are leaving home for, give an account of your day. When asked why you came in late or early, tell why. It shouldn't call for a fight. When asked how money is spent, don't turn it into a quarrel because when you turn out badly the spouse asking will suffer for it... When your spouse questions the kind of friends you flock with please take caution and safe your home from unnecessary pain.

Inability to give account naturally cast a doubt of the activities in question. It's a sign that things untoward are being done.

It's of no use lying too. Lying about accounts is a sign that such hasn't gotten the essence and the importance of accountability. Lies may cover errors for a while but a hidden sore will only fester, it won't heal. It's better to submit to treatment early before it claims something that can't be replaced.

Accountability keeps us safe and preserves us. It helps to spread liabilities as we enjoy our assets. It helps to know what progress we are making and how to move faster towards accomplishing purpose...

We do this as part of best business and management practices at the work place and we should bring it home to encourage peace and sincerity in love...and so build strong homes capable of withstanding any kind of storm...

Let's do this.

Good morning. Share this with friends, you may be saving a generation.

Join us this Saturday 12noon @

Pneuma Worship Centre
Winsford Primary School
Igbogbo, Ikorodu

As we discuss marriage and relationship in contemporary times and how to make our homes a bliss...

Gods blessings!