Inspiring Commitment to a Shared Future
We all love the stories of the great visionary leaders who forge their way against all odds into a future no one else thought possible. Some people are gifted that way. If that’s you, use that gifting well! Be warned there are pitfalls you’ll need to navigate to avoid being one of the many visionaries who never achieve their vision. While some highly driven visionaries accomplish amazing things, many leave a trail of abused and broken people in their wake. Our goal as leaders is to achieve a future vision AND enable those we lead to reach their full potential. The primary measure of our success as leaders is the success of those we lead. 
But what if you’re a leader who lacks that visionary gift? You still have the responsibility to inspire your followers to reach beyond themselves to achieve some as-yet-unrealized future state. Continue reading A Leader’s Vision
Like the challenges that come with any change, we can either whine about our loss or be intentional about optimizing our new reality.
It was a unique experience that I wish was common: In the face of diversity and considerable disagreement, there was an overwhelming sense of unity.
The problem is the number of variables that come into play. Building team skills into an Executive Team that has worked together for years (but perhaps not well) is different than pulling together a set of people who barely know each other – if at all – for a short-term project. A large organization with many players to choose from to form their team has different issues than the small organization that doesn’t really have options for who will be on the team. And the variables go much deeper than that since the organization’s culture impacts everything. 
collaboration. You may not need that caliber of PM skills, but even small organizations still need to rally multiple resources to launch products, plan events, create marketing materials, build business plans, and solve other problems. 
Perhaps there are some useful points here that you can adopt (or adapt), but be careful: Never claim a value as your own unless you’re willing to live every word of it. Don’t destroy your credibility by saying something’s important that you’re not willing to be held accountable to.