Be Mean About the Vision: Preserving and Protecting What Matters
Written by Shawn Lovejoy and Ed Stetzer
Narrated by Chad Escue and Gabe Wicks
5/5
()
About this audiobook
Why would a leader ever want to be mean? It's all about the vision.
Almost every organization has a vision, but few stick to it over time. Even after short-term success, visions tend to blur, drift, and fade. Why does this happen?
Accomplishing the vision requires intentionality. It requires consistency. It requires commitment. It requires courage.
In Be Mean About the Vision, author Shawn Lovejoy challenges leaders to stay true to the vision—regaining and sustaining its trajectory over time. Lovejoy offers a proven strategy for relentlessly protecting our organization’s guiding vision:
- Develop a vision people are willing to die for
- Keep the vision alive in us
- Align everyone around the vision
- Keep the vision from being compromised or even hijacked
One thing is certain—if our church or organization is going to accomplish its mission, we’re going to need to be: Determined. Resolute. Intentional. We’re going to need to be willing to do whatever it takes to keep the vision from being detoured or derailed. Where there is no vision, people perish. They wander off in random directions. On the flip side, when everyone understands and embraces the vision, there is life, passion, growth, and success! And God will be glorified.
As a leader the kindest, godliest, thing we can do is Be Mean About the Vision.
Journaling prompts are included in the audiobook companion PDF download.
Shawn Lovejoy
Shawn Lovejoy is directional leader for CourageToLead.com and former leader of Mountain Lake Church and churchplanters.com. He loves coaching. He loves coaching leaders and pastoring pastors and working with teams as they navigate their way through the vision. Shawn consults, coaches, and speaks to leaders all across the country about all things vision and team. He currently lives in Trussville, Alabama, (a suburb of Birmingham), with his wife Tricia, and their three kids, Hannah, Madison, and Paul.
Related to Be Mean About the Vision
Related audiobooks
Sticky Teams: Keeping Your Leadership Team and Staff on the Same Page Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5God Dreams: 12 Vision Templates for Finding and Focusing Your Church's Future Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Confident Leader!: Become One, Stay One Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsServant Leader Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Unleashing the Power of Rubber Bands: Lessons in Non-linear Leadership Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Replenish: Leading from a Healthy Soul Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Discipleship Opportunity: Leading a Great-Commission Church in a Post-Everything World Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Volunteer Effect: How Your Church Can Find, Train, and Keep Volunteers Who Make a Difference Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Quit Pastoring Your Church Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsChurch Unique: How Missional Leaders Cast Vision, Capture Culture, and Create Movement Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Passionate Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Small Groups for the Rest of Us: How to Design Your Small Groups System to Reach the Fringes Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Generosity Ladder: Your Next Step to Financial Peace Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Exponential: How to Accomplish the Jesus Mission Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Leveling the Church: Multiplying Your Ministry by Giving It Away Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Paul and His Team: What the Early Church Can Teach Us About Leadership and Influence Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsViral Churches: Helping Church Planters Become Movement Makers Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Exponential Groups: Unleashing Your Church's Potential Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsReLeader: How To Fix What You Didn't Break Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Church Administration Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Multiplication Effect: Building a Leadership Pipeline that Solves Your Leadership Shortage Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Liquid Church: 6 Powerful Currents to Saturate Your City for Christ Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Empowering Leadership: How a Leadership Development Culture Builds Better Leaders Faster Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Top Ten Mistakes Pastors Make Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Visioneering: God's Blueprint for Developing and Maintaining Vision Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Untapped Church: Discovering the Potential Hidden in Your Congregation Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Community: Audio Bible Studies: Starting Well in Your Small Group Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Unchurched Next Door: Understanding Faith Stages as Keys to Sharing Your Faith Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Making Vision Stick Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Come Back Effect: How Hospitality Can Compel Your Church's Guests to Return Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Religion & Spirituality For You
Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Great Divorce Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Book of Enoch the Prophet Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Weight of Glory Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Great Sex Rescue: The Lies You’ve Been Taught and How to Recover What God Intended Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spritual Growth Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Case for Christ: A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue, Book 1 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5An Exorcist Tells His Story Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Gospel of Thomas: The Gnostic Wisdom of Jesus Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face With the Idea of an Afterlife Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wake Up With Purpose!: What I’ve Learned in my First Hundred Years Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Unwanted: How Sexual Brokenness Reveals Our Way to Healing Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Letter to a Christian Nation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was, and Who God Has Always Been Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Silence: The Power of Quiet in a World Full of Noise Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Enneagram: A Christian Perspective Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Love the Sh!t Out of Yourself: Because Your Life Depends On It Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related categories
Reviews for Be Mean About the Vision
1 rating0 reviews