Overview

Everything starts with Leadership:

• Leadership determines vision and strategy
• Vision determines direction and commitment
• Strategy determines appropriate plans and methodologies

Salient Characteristics of Leaders

• Charisma
• Beguiling
• Vision
• Strategies
• Consistency
• Catalyst for change
• Inspiration
• Energizing people
• The longer term
• Dreams
• Big picture
• Empowerment
• Cultural values
• Personality centered
• Sometimes irrational
• Originality

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Case Histories

• "How to handle very important but difficult internal clients"
• "Leadership development for a new President/CEO"
• "Improving teamwork between two combative executives"
• "Leadership development: transforming a CFO into a COO"

One of the most important qualities of a leader is vision—a clear sense of where to go. A vision creates order without demanding it, just as a boat creates the order of a patterned wake by moving through formless water. Warren Bennis