Joe’s story is ultimately a story of success, but it also illustrates one of the challenges of mentor leadership: Not everyone is going to embrace the vision or have the patience and belief in the vision to conclude the process. Sometimes, within an organization, the tide seems to be rolling the other way—especially when circumstances seem bleak. The apostle Paul must have felt that way at times. When he was imprisoned, whipped, shipwrecked, stoned, or told to leave a city, he must have thought, There is no way this new movement is going to end well. But guided by the vision imparted to him by
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