There is very little I’ve experienced in the business world that is more frustrating than working with a visionary leader who inspires me completely and yet can’t execute. At the same time, I’ve discovered during the course of my career it’s rare to find a truly visionary leader who excels at both. When you find […]
There are world-changing leaders who inspire their followers to a shining city upon a hill, and there are misguided leaders who head their followers “off a cliff.” And then there are real-world leaders like Steve Ferkau who inspire hundreds of people to climb thousands of stairs because their hearts and minds are guided by purpose and love and the […]
If you want to be a purveyor of visionary leadership in 2012 you must start by creating a vision for 2012. I recommend creating a separate vision for both your life and your career because, although they absolutely will be inextricably linked, there will be critical and varying aspects of each that you’ll want to […]
You may call me an optimist, but when I give serious thought to what leadership will look like in the future I see a world full of people leading from within, for the higher good of themselves, each other, and the world at large. I say this having just participated in an hours-long interview with an […]
A few weeks ago I began offering my readers the opportunity to sign up for my new eNewsletter. I set up the process in such a way that when readers subscribe they receive a “thank you” email from me along with a question about what their biggest leadership challenge is. The responses have been eye-opening and […]
At last week’s Leadership Chat we celebrated our one-year anniversary. After some time spent reflecting on the past year, we began to look forward and asked the Chat participants to share their insights on the most critical leadership attributes of our time; attributes that will set leaders apart now and in the future. Here […]
Steve Woodruff and I couldn’t be happier to be welcoming our leadership colleague Mike Henry Sr. as this week’s Leadership Chat Guest Host. Mike is the Founder and fearless leader of the Lead Change Group, of which I am a member. The group’s mission is to “Encourage, Energize and Equip one another to apply character-based […]
We were all moved, and many of us shaken, by the loss of Steve Jobs last week. He inspired us with his vision, his passion for his work and his creative genius. We cheered him when he battled back from being fired at Apple. We so badly wanted him to win his ultimate battle with […]
As you might expect for a blog passionate about Visionary Leadership, I’ve heretofore tackled the business-altering difference between vision and mission, and the critical difference between vision and goals. But it was in the comments of last week’s post about why business vision matters more in this economy that I was asked an important question […]
Don’t you wish instead of celebrating “Labor Day” we were celebrating “Passion Day?” By asking that question I am in no way belittling the intrinsic meaning of Labor Day. I think the way the US Department of Labor describes Labor Day as a yearly national tribute to: the contributions workers have made to the strength, […]