Creating a common vision and creating common goals for followers and staff may just be one of the most critical aspects of leading successfully. When employee embrace common vision and goals, much less management is required, and there is more commitment and loyalty to the organization. Here we look at the power of vision and the importance of creating goal alignment as part of leadership
By Jim Collins
- EXECUTIVES spend too much time drafting, wordsmithing, and redrafting vision statements, mission statements, values statements, purpose statements, aspiration statements, and so on. They spend nowhere near enough time trying to align their organizations with the values and visions already in place.
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By Dr. Marilyn Manning
- Four basic steps for creating a bussiness vision are outlined. Try them to ensure that your business vision is shared and executed.
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By Jamie McKenzie
- Sometimes they ride into town on white horses. "Let's become the first laptop school (or state) in the nation!" Next thing you know, life is full of change and churn - not all for the good. What's wrong with this picture?
So many of these people specialize in creating anxiety.
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By ournal for Quality and Participation
- ow does an organization create a vision that provides the kind of benefits we've just enumerated? Clearly the development of a vision is not as simple as just having the executive group go off for a few days to think up a clever phrase or two which can then be posted and put in everybody's wallet or purse. People need to be involved. They won't be committed if they weren't involved in developing it. Yet, people also want to know where the leaders stand, what they think, and how deeply committed they are.
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By Kerri Harris
- Great leaders are not always born that way. Unfortunately, many management training programs don't sufficiently emphasize leadership development, but instead focus on fundamentals and the day-to-day tasks that confront managers within the organization. This article takes a look at how having vision and then communicating it is the foundation of leadership and contributes to the makeup of a truly great leader.
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