Leadership - The Power of a Clear Vision

By: Mark Shead
Submitted: 2007-01-17 16:41:51
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Many inexperienced leaders fail to sufficiently convey a vision to the subordinates they lead. If you are not skilled in telling everyone which direction to head you’ll have confusion. Worse yet, you’ll have a situation where people start creating their own direction. For some leaders their deficiency comes not from a lack of communication but from not having a vision themselves.

It is much easier to lead if you have a clear idea of what you want to achieve and your ideas are good. Even if you don’t have a tremendous amount of skill as a leader, having a clear vision can help you through your shortcomings.

In fact a poor leader with a great vision, will achieve more than a great leader with an ill-conceived plan. Success covers a huge number of failures. If you are successful, people will tend to forget many mistakes you make as a leader. If you are ineffective people are less likely to overlook your deficiencies in vision.

If you are pushing people toward shared success, they will tend to stick with you because they are succeeding. In some cases they may even start mimicking some of your poor leadership habits thinking they are part of the reason for your success.

Obviously good leadership skills are very important. It is much better to lead with a solid vision and skillful leadership expertise. Just make sure that as you develop your leadership skills, you don’t overlook the skills that will let you develop a vision that makes it worth it for followers to follow you.

Leadership501 is a website with resources for leaders and people looking to increase their success in management positions. Please visit http://www.leadership501.com to find out more about developing a clear vision and other leadership topics.

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