Quotes About Vision

We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end.

Leadership is building a bridge that connects the vision with the purpose, in order to empower those who are around us.

Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

If you think you are leading and turn around to see no one following, then you are just taking a walk.

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

The real role of leadership in education ... is not and should not be command and control. The real role of leadership is climate control, creating a climate of possibility.

the best leaders try to train their followers themselves to become leaders. ... they wish to be leaders of leaders.

Leadership is ultimately about creating a way for people to contribute to making something extraordinary happen.

Leadership is providing inspiration and vision, then developing and empowering others to achieve this vision.

If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.

Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.

The best way to lead people into the future is to connect with them deeply in the present.

A vision we give to others of who and what they could become has power when it echoes what the spirit has already spoken into their souls.

Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.

Communication is the real work of leadership.

The job of the leader is to speak to the possibility.

The real heart of strategy is the strategist.

It is better to see once than to hear a hundred times.

All leadership is appreciative leadership. It's the capacity to see the best in the world around us, in our colleagues, and in the groups we are trying to lead.

A leader without the vision, to strive to improve things, is no good. Then you will just stay put, you won't progress.

The only way to lead people is to show them a future: a leader is a dealer in hope.