One of the biggest leadership challenges is getting everyone on the same page.
Why?
Because everyone is different.
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One of the greatest leadership challenges
Tag: vision
Visionary leadership is the only thing that changes things
(photo: Remove the wet vac and then begin refilling pool with water.)
Visionary leadership is the only thing that changes things. The leader’s job isn’t to maintain things.
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The vision has to be simple, otherwise plan on failing
(photo: October 30, 2014. One day before the last day of a 30 year run. Had briefly entertained the notion of retiring with Bob until Bob extended his contract three more years.)
Bob Iger speaks briefly about Disney’s three pillars:
- Creativity
- Technology
- Globalization.
Simple.
The vision has to be simple.
Has to.
For a Fourtune 6 Most Admired Company.
For each of us.
Here’s one Company’s simple vision:
The World’s Most Admired Company
Here’s one person’s simple vision:
Humble servant
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When the rubber meets the road
(photo: Annual Singing Christmas Trees concert, 2014.)
Big events don’t fall from the sky. Massive effort is required. Trust, accessibility, values, and vision. They all work together for the greater good.
Couple calls and meetings (in this order as the day unfolded):
- Pitched crazy idea to Middle School teacher to enlist her student’s help, teach them, and fund raise.
- Recruiting consultants for work beyond MLC’s catalytic keynote speeches.
- Requested permission to use large, not-for-profit venue.
- Put out feelers for a go-to meeting planner.
Today will be more of the same.
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PS. Here’s a real time (Mar 27) update to the above post written Dec 17: None of the four “great ideas” panned out. Paying engagements were contracted that made numbers 1 & 3 dramatically less pressing. Discovered that i do not wish to partner with anyone else on content creation (as of now). And #4 is premature – a great resource is available when and if the time becomes right.
Who should be the deepest thinker in any room?
(photo: Screen capture from You Tube.)
The Internet has changed everything and made it even more difficult (distracting information overload) to focus with a laser beam on the target, which is to deliver uncompromising business excellence.
At a packed conference, or in a corporate meeting room, who should be the deepest thinker in the room?
The speaker.
The speaker will never be intimate with how your industry works, but they darn sure better be intimate with the most powerful business questions every organization should be constantly asking themselves.
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