Leadership & Vision

• Management of attention through vision is the creating of focus.
• Intensity coupled with commitment is magnetic.
• Vision grabs.
• Initially it grabs the leader and management of attention enables others also to get on the bandwagon.
• Coaches need unbridled clarity about what they want from their players.
• Vision needs to bring about a confidence of the followers.

Edwin H. Land, founder Polaroid
"The first thing you naturally do is teach the person to feel that the undertaking is manifestly important..."

Vision animates, inspirits, and transforms purpose into action.

Leadership Strategies For Taking Charge

Thoughts for leaders from Warren Bennis:
1. Leadership is about character.
2. The capacity to generate and sustain trust is the central ingredient in leadership.
You can have the most glorious vision in the world and it won't mean a thing if there's low trust in the organization.
3. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.
Leadership is the wise use of this power. Leaders direct organizational changes that build confidence and empower their employees to seek new ways in doing things.
4. Many organizations tend to be overmanaged and underled.
They may excel in the ability to handle the daily routine, yet never question whether the routine should be done at all. There is a profound difference between management and leadership and both are important. "To manage" means "to bring about, to accomplish, to have charge of or responsibility for, to conduct." "Leading" is influencing, guiding in direction, course, action, opinion."
5. Leaders are perpetual learners.