Vision

Success Matters

by George Ambler on April 5, 2009

Photo by matsukawa1971 “Until you ‘figure out what success means’ to you personally and to your organisation, leadership is an almost ‘pointless conversation’, Drucker Admonished, Success Built to Last Leadership exists within the context of vision, purpose and goals. You cannot lead unless you know where you’re going. People will not follow someone who is [...]

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Leaders Think Differently

by George Ambler on March 15, 2009

“Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.” – Robert Jarvik Leaders pioneer and initiate change. Leaders are not sheepwalkers and they do not follow the traditional cow paths of life. Leaders bring the future into the present. This is because leaders see what others [...]

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No Great Leader Initially Set Out To Be a Leader

by George Ambler on February 1, 2009

  Street Studio NYC by moriza Leadership is a means of personal expression. Leaders find ways to express who they are, what they believe, which inspires them take action towards their vision. Leadership is personal expression, in that their vision causes them to strive to bring about something that hasn’t existed before. In this sense [...]

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Leaders as Stewards of Purpose

by George Ambler on January 25, 2009

  Photo by archer10 (Dennis) (BUSY) In the book “It’s not what you sell, it’s what you stand for” (the book’s website is here) by Roy Spence Jr. with Haley Rushing, is an interesting chapter, “stewards of purpose” which discuss the importance of purpose in leadership… “The primary responsibility of a leader in a purpose-based [...]

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The January 2009 edition of the Harvard Business Review has a piece titled “To Lead, Create a Shared Vision” by James Kouzes and Barry Posner discussing the importance of a shared vision for effective leadership… “Being forward-looking—envisioning exciting possibilities and enlisting others in a shared view of the future—is the attribute that most distinguishes leaders [...]

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