ENVISION THE FUTURE

READING

Shared Vision- The Fifth Discipline- Peter Senge

• "What do we want to create?"
• Shared vision is vital for focus and energy
• Visions are exhilarating. They create the spark to lift from mundane
• In corporation "their company" to "our company" 
• Shared visions compel courage

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• Courage is simply doing whatever is needed in pursuit of vision.
• You can not have a learning organization without shared vision.
• Shared visions emerge from personal visions
• If people don't have their own vision 
• all they can do is sign up for someone else's

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• Compliance vs. Commitment 
• Enrolling vs Committed 
• Spartacus

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• Creating Shared Vision
• Appreciate varying perpectives
• Open Dialogue 
• Comradeship Common Goal Shared Vision 
• Start: Vision, Purpose, Mission, Legacy, Dream, Calling, Personal Agenda ?

Exemplary Leader

• Must be able to imagine a positive future
• When you feel passion and the legacy you want to leave
• You can then take the first step forward
• Exemplar leaders are forward thinkers
• They imagine that extraordinary feats are possible  

Vision

• Can't be singular
• When visions are shared, they attract more people
• Sustain higher levels of motivation, withstand more challenges
• Make sure what you see others can see and visa versa
• Imagine Possibilities - Find Common Purpose

Leaders

• Leaders are dreamers, idealists, possibility thinkers
• Visions are reflections of ones fundamental beliefs
• Every leader needs a theme

Leader's Theme

• What is your prominent message?
• What's your recurring theme?
• What idea, feeling, aspiration grabs hold and won't let go?
• What do you most want people to envision every time they think of future?
• This requires reflect past, attend present, prospect future, feel passion.

Attend to Present/Prospect the Future

• Not crystal ball, but paying attention to patterns that point to future-
• They have to anticipate what might be coming over the hill- 
• What's next?
• Think next project and one after that and one after that...

Feel your passion-

• People don't see possibility when they don't feel any passion  
• Envisioning requires staying in touch with your deepest feelings
• Leaders want to do something no one else has accheived
• MBI Gold 
• External motivation=compliance or defiance self motivation=superior result 

Motivational Expert, Deci, "Stop the pay, and stop the play"

Common Purpose

• The key task for leaders is inspiring a shared vision,
• not selling their own idiosyncratic view of the world.
• Your constituents want to feel part of the process.
• Must have collective dialogue not monologue-
• You can't mobilize people to willingly travel to places they don't want to

Listen Deeply to Others

• Listen to constituents to give voice to their feelings
• Best leaders are great listeners 
• They have to ask tough questions and open to ideas
• other than their own in favor of common good. 

People want a chance to:

• Be tested, to make it their own
• Take part in social experiment
• Do something well
• Do something good
• Change the way things are

Henry Mintzberg

• "Calculated strategies have no value
• in and of themselves...Strategies 
• take on value only as committed 
• people infuse them with energy."
• Belonging is important in tough times

Looking Forward

• Simply put, to be a leader, must be able to envision the future.
• People want to follow only those who can see beyond 
• today's problems and visualize a brighter tomorrow.