Blog about Leadership

I have written several blog entries about vision and I cannot emphasis enough the importance of vision for leadership. It is the single most effective and focused tool of a leader.

1. If you don’t know where you are leading than you are not leading.

John C. Maxwell: “Show me a leader without vision, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t going anywhere.”

Leadership is action. It is moving the organization through change to something better, stronger, and more enduring.

2. If you don’t know where you have been than you cannot know where you should go.

John C. Maxwell: “Vision starts within.”

To determine your vision, you need to do a bit of self-evaluation and learn your history. You have to know where you are as people and you have to know where you are as an organization.

3. Don’t be concerned about aiming for the impossible.

Edwin Land: “The first thing you do is teach the person to feel that the vision is very important and nearly impossible. That draws out the drive in winners.”

Winners like to win. Winning is encountering competition and overcoming the challenges. Those who win are motivated by challenges and by the achievement over those challenges. The tougher the challenge is, the greater the winner needs to be.

4. Vision is the conduit for a leader to inspire and influence winners.

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