How to Be (and Stay) a Visionary Leader

"Everyone is searching for an edge to differentiate themselves in today's chaotic, AI-infused world. One quality that stands out, especially in leadership, is vision. Being a visionary is becoming increasingly crucial. Along with being a mentor and exemplar, being a visionary is one of the three features of an inspired leader, says Adam Galinsky, professor and chair of the management division at Columbia Business School."

"Having "surveyed thousands of people worldwide on what they want in their leaders," James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner, professors of leadership at Santa Clara University, report that "they tell us that being forward-looking (visionary, foresighted, concerned about the future, having a sense of direction) is second only to honesty as their most admired leader quality." IMD Business School professor Michael D. Watkins joins the chorus: "visionary leaders provide inspiring aims that help organizations overcome self-interest and factionalism," he asserts."

"Peter Drucker: Visionary As visionaries go, it's hard to match Peter Drucker, the father of modern management. In his career of 70-plus years, Drucker, who died in 2005, was the first to see management as a discipline in its own right, and to refine the theme over many years in books, articles, teaching, consulting, and public speaking. He extended his insights into pioneering efforts in executive edu"

Vision has become a decisive leadership differentiator in an AI-infused, chaotic environment. Visionary leadership requires crafting a big-picture, values-based, optimistic future, simplifying and visualizing its core, and repeating it consistently. Surveys of thousands worldwide rank forward-looking qualities second only to honesty among admired leader traits. Visionary leaders provide inspiring aims that help organizations overcome factionalism and self-interest. Peter Drucker exemplified visionary leadership across a seventy-year career by treating management as a distinct discipline and refining it through books, teaching, consulting, and public speaking. Visionaries cultivate written and spoken ideas and articulate them in clear language.

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