VISION- DRIVEN

LEADERSHIP
 PEOPLE BEHIND THE STUDY OF
NINETY PROMINENT
LEADERS
Warren Bennis Burt Nanus
 THEIR STUDY…
• All the leaders has a
compelling vision, a realistic
dream about their work.
• “All ninety people
interviewed had an agenda,
an unparalleled concern with
outcome…
• Leaders are the most
results-oriented individuals in
the world, and results gets
attention.
• “Their visions or
intensions are
compelling and pull
people toward them.
• Intensity coupled with
commitment is
magnetic. Vision
grabs.”
• Vision- from the word literally
meaning “see.”
• What better word to describe the
capacity to be forward-looking and
foresighted?

Vision suggest a future orientation.

• A vision is an image- a picture of
what could be.
• Implies a choice of values.
• It has the quality of uniqueness.
• It hints what makes something
special.
• An organization’s vision gives a
crystal-clear depiction of what
an organization wants to
become.
• It shows a glimpse of the future as
we would like to be and as we
think it should be.
• Jonathan Swift
wrote in Gulliver’s
Travels, “Vision is
the art of seeing
things invisible.”
• A statement of vision is also
unique.
• It takes into account a
specific milieu, a
particular group of
people with their talents
and gifts, and with a
special sense of
direction.
• A visual image or a succinct statement may display a vision.
• Leaders have been described as “painters of the vision and architects of
the
journey.”
• Leaders dream of the desired future.
• Their dream is to change the world- their organization, their nation or their
planet.
Positive Conviction
Belief
Life will
be
better
• Lives of people are sometimes
gripped by sense of helplessness
and doubt.
• There are those who feel their lives
cannot count for anything
against the odds of powerful
economic, social, and political
forces.
• People need a sense of vision and
the future that will help them
discover that they can make
difference right where they are,
that challenges them to reach out
to the world around them and
make this world a better place to
live.
 ROBERT GREENLEAF

• Author of the book Servant Leadership: A Journey into the Nature of

Legitimate Power and Greatness.
• A mark of leaders… is that they are better than most at the pointing direction. As long as
one is leading, one always has a goal. It may be a goal arrived at by group consensus, or
the leader, acting on inspiration, may simply have said, “Let’s go this way.”
• Clearly stating and restating the goal the leader gives certainty and purpose
to others who may have difficulty in achieving it for themselves.
EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP
• Develop and sustain by your vision.
• Without one, you cannot reach your
full leadership potential.
• Harry Emerson Fosdick once said, “No
life ever grows great until it is focused,
dedicated and disciplined.”
• In the same manner that no
organization, institution or school ever
grows until it is focused, dedicated
and disciplined.
 A. D’ SOUZA
1. Operates as your dynamic force energized by voltage and vitality;
2. Provides lift, stretch, clarity and focus;
3. Guides you to see beyond the immediate;
4. Makes you future-oriented, concentrating on results rather than on activity;
5. Shows you where you are going and why you are going there;
6. Helps you spot opportunities that others have not seen;
7. Gives you the driving power to see you through tough times; and
8. Makes the unreachable reachable and makes toward a worthwhile future.
Thank you