As a leader you have two very important tasks, the first one is to clarify your vision and the second one is to articulate and share your vision.
Leadership is about bringing others to a new place often times a place they may not see or believe they can get to. It’s your responsibility to see that vision and make it as clear as you can. You must be able to see it and be there; to live your vision even if only in your mind. No one else can see your vision for you. Once you can see it you need to be able to enroll others in your vision. This takes combination, and often it needs to be in various forms. Your ability to articulate your vision clearly is directly related to your success in enrolling others in your vision and also increases their success in supporting you as you move towards your vision.
If you’re in a leadership position and you do not have a clear vision that you have shared with others you’re not a leader, you’re a manager. Leadership is about taking us “where no man [woman] has gone.” Star Trek/ White House1.
1Introduction to Outer Space is a pamphlet about space exploration edited by the White House the 26 March 1958. At first, a report of the President’s Science Advisory Committee presided by Dr James R. Killian in the aftermath of the Sputnik 1 launch, Dwight D. Eisenhower found it so informative and interesting that he decided to make it available to everybody for 15 cents. It presents in simple terms to the layman the future of space exploration. (from Wikipedia)
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