Leaders are marked by vision. Vision makes the difference between leadership and misleadership. Vision includes goals and strategies developed with team members. Vision dreams the most possible dream, not the impossible dream. Leaders recognize that vision gives direction while mission provides purpose. Vision should result in consensus but does not always develop by consensus. Leaders learn from the past, live in the present, and plan for the future.
David S. Dockery, Christian Leadership Essentials (B&H, 2011), p. 2.
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"A vision gives life, and if there is no vision, the seeds of death are being sown and it is just a matter of time until death will prevail." Harris Lee, Effective Church Leadership, 131.
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