THE LEADER

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THE LEADER THE VISION PROCESS
John Lindell

• Owasso
• Assembly of God
• January 4, 2009

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Dubai in 1990
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The same street in 2003
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Last year
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Dubai is said to currently have 15-25 of all
the worlds cranes.
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The Dubai Waterfront. When completed, it will
become the largest waterfront development in the
world.
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This was all built in the last 5 years, including
the island that looks like a palm tree.
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The Palm Islands. New Dutch dredging technology
was used to create these artificial islands 3 of
these Palms will be made.
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The islands can be seen from space. Upon
completion, the resort will have 2,000 villas, 40
luxury hotels, shopping centers and more.
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The World Islands. 300 artificially created
islands in the shape of the world. Each island
will cost an estimated 25-30 million.
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The Burj al-Arab Hotel. The worlds tallest
hotel, considered the only 7-Star hotel and the
most luxurious hotel in the world.It stands on
an artificial island in the sea.
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Hydropolis, the worlds first underwater hotel,
is scheduled to be completed by 2009.
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The Burj Dubai. Construction began in 2005 and is
expected to be complete by 2008. At an estimated
height of over 800 meters, it will easily be the
worlds tallest building when finished.
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This is what downtown Dubai willlook like around
2008-2009.
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The Al Burj.This will be the centerpiece of the
Dubai Waterfront. Once completed, it will take
over the title of the tallest structure in the
world from the Burj Dubai. Recently it was
announced that the final height of this tower
will be 1200 meters.
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The Trump International Hotel Tower.This will
be the centerpiece of one of the Palm Islands.
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Dubailand
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When completed, Dubailand will be twice the size
of the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando.
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Dubai Sports City. A huge collection of sports
arenas located in Dubailand.
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Currently, the Walt Disney World Resort is the 1
tourist destination in the world. Dubailand will
easily take over that title as it is expected to
attract 200,000 visitors daily.
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The Dubai Marina is an entirely man-made
development that will contain over 200 high-rise
buildings when finished. The Dubai Mall will have
over 9 million square feet of shopping.
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Ski Dubai, which is already open, is the largest
indoor skiing facility in the world. This is a
rendering of a future indoor skiing facility.
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5 STEPS TO LEADINGPEOPLEINTO VISION
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See the Vision
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Proverbs 2918
Where there is no vision, the people perish but
he that keepeth the law, happy is he. (KJV)
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Proverbs 2918
If people cant see what God is doing, they
stumble all over themselves But when they attend
to what He reveals, they are most blessed. (MSG)
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Nehemiah 11-4
The words of Nehemiah the son of Hac-aliah. Now
it happened in the month of Chislev, in the
twentieth year, as I was in Susa the capital,
that Hanani, one of my brothers, came with
certain men from Judah. And I asked them
concerning the Jews who escaped, who had
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Nehemiah 11-4
survived the exile, and concerning Jerusalem. And
they said to me, The remnant there in the
province who had survived the exile is in great
trouble and shame. The wall of Jerusalem is
broken down, and its gates are destroyed by
fire. As soon as I heard these words I sat
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Nehemiah 11-4
down and wept and mourned for days, and I
continued fasting and praying before the God of
heaven. (ESV)
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Nehemiah 111
O Lord, let your ear be attentive to the prayer
of your servant, and to the prayer of your
servants who delight to fear your name, and give
success to your servant today, and grant him
mercy in the sight of this man. (ESV)
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Leadership Thought You cant see what God is
doing if you dont spend time in His presence.
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Proverbs 418-19
The way of the righteous is like the first gleam
of dawn, which shines ever brighter until the
full light of day. But the way of the wicked is
like total darkness. They have no idea what they
are stumbling over. (NLT)
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Say the Vision
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Nehemiah 22-8
And the king said to me, Why is your face sad,
seeing you are not sick? This is nothing but
sadness of the heart. Then I was very much
afraid. I said to the king, Let the king live
forever! Why should not my face be sad, when the
city, the place of my fathers graves, lies in
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Nehemiah 22-8
ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by
fire? Then the king said to me, What are you
requesting? So I prayed to the God of heaven.
And I said to the king, If it pleases the king,
and if your servant has found favor in your
sight, that you send me to Judah, to the city of
my fathers graves,
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Nehemiah 22-8
that I may rebuild it. And the king said to me
(the queen sitting beside him), How long will
you be gone, and when will you return? So it
pleased the king to send me when I had given him
a time. And I said to the king, If it pleases
the king, let letters be given me to the
governors of the province Beyond
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Nehemiah 22-8
the River, that they may let me pass through
until I come to Judah, and a letter to Asaph, the
keeper of the kings forest, that he may give me
timber to make beams for the gates of the
fortress of the temple, and for the wall of the
city, and for the house that I shall occupy. And
the
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Nehemiah 22-8
king granted me what I asked, for the good hand
of my God was upon me. (ESV)
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Components forCompelling Communication

• Conviction in your heart

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Components forCompelling Communication

• Conviction in your heart
• Confidence in God

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Components forCompelling Communication

• Conviction in your heart
• Confidence in God
• Commitment that is demonstrated

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Leadership Thought People dont follow inward
hopes, they follow tangible commitment!
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Components forCompelling Communication

• Conviction in your heart
• Confidence in God
• Commitment that is demonstrated
• Communication skills

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Seize the Vision
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Nehemiah 217-18
Then I said to them, You see the trouble we are
in, how Jerusalem lies in ruins with its gates
burned. Come, let us build the wall of Jerusalem,
that we may no longer suffer derision. And I
told them of the hand of my God that had been
upon me for good, and also of the
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words that the king had spoken to me. And they
said, Let us rise up and build. So they
strengthened their hands for the good work.
(ESV)
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Nehemiah 47-10
But when Sanballat and Tobiah and the Arabs and
the Ammonites and the Ashdodites heard that the
repairing of the walls of Jerusalem was going
forward and that the breaches were beginning to
be closed, they were very angry. And they all
plotted together to come and fight against
Jerusalem and to cause
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Nehemiah 47-10
confusion in it. And we prayed to our God and set
a guard as a protection against them day and
night. In Judah it was said, The strength of
those who bear the burdens is failing. There is
too much rubble. By ourselves we will not be able
to rebuild the wall. (ESV)
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Seizing the vision required faith and hard work.
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Reasons Why Few PeopleEver Seize the Vision

• At this level, failure can be a reality.

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Reasons Why Few PeopleEver Seize the Vision

• At this level, failure can be a reality.
• This level requires discipline.

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Leadership Thought In order to say yes to
certain things in our life, we have to be willing
to say no to other things.
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Reasons Why Few PeopleEver Seize the Vision

• At this level, failure can be a reality.
• This level requires discipline.
• This level separates the crowd from the committed.

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Reasons Why Few PeopleEver Seize the Vision

• At this level, failure can be a reality.
• This level requires discipline.
• This level separates the crowd from the
  committed.
• This level takes time.

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Summon Others to Help Carry Out the Vision
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Leadership Thought It doesnt matter if you are
Joseph, Moses, Caleb, Nehemiah or Paul...to carry
out the vision requires a team of people!
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Study the Organizational Effectiveness of the
Vision
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Nehemiah 411-13
And our enemies said, They will not know or see
till we come among them and kill them and stop
the work. At that time the Jews who lived near
them came from all directions and said to us ten
times, You must return to us. So in the lowest
parts of the space behind
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Nehemiah 411-13
the wall, in open places, I stationed the people
by their clans, with their swords, their spears,
and their bows. (ESV)
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Questions to Ask in Monitoring Organizational
Effectiveness

• Is the vision moving forward?

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Questions to Ask in Monitoring Organizational
Effectiveness

• Is the vision moving forward?
• Under the present structure, can the vision
  continue to move forward?

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Questions to Ask in Monitoring Organizational
Effectiveness

• Is the vision moving forward?
• Under the present structure, can the vision
  continue to move forward?
• Where can the organization be improved?

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Leadership Thought Build into your teams
thinking the concept of a culture of
improvement.
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Questions to Ask in Monitoring Organizational
Effectiveness

• What has worked or not worked?

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Questions to Ask in Monitoring Organizational
Effectiveness

• What has worked or not worked?
• What feedback are you getting on your
  organization/ department?

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Nehemiah 615-16
So the wall was finished on the twenty-fifth day
of the month Elul, in fifty-two days. And when
all our enemies heard of it, all the nations
around us were afraid and fell greatly in their
own esteem, for they perceived that this work had
been accomplished with the help of our God. (ESV)
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5 Steps to LeadingPeople into Vision

• See it
• Say it
• Seize it
• Summon others
• Study it

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Proverbs 2918
If people cant see what God is doing, they
stumble all over themselves But when they attend
to what He reveals, they are most blessed. (MSG)