When I hear the word vision, I almost always think of looking out and ahead. But, within the dynamics of leadership and management structures, vision is actually three directional. To define our vision we must look to the past, to the present, and to the future. Backwards Look - The past gives us a "mythology",...

I should have kept a running tally but I didn’t. In forty years of training and consulting, I engaged a very large number of leaders and managers at all levels, team leader up to corporate head. I usually began my intervention with them by asking what should be a simple question – what is your...

Examples of visionary leadership are everywhere. Settlers band in groups and follow a leader to a new region or country. Soldiers follow officers into battle. Voters support candidates. Workers leave the security of an existing job to join a new company.  Wives follow husbands, husbands follow wives.  Congregations follow pastors.  Students follow teachers…and the list...

The New Year brings a new series on vision. For the next several weeks I will be positing articles with concepts, techniques, and tools that show effective leaders and managers just how vital this topic is. Vision as a topic gets a lot of press but it functions better as a quality than it does...